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    Lead Heads Bait and Tackle

    5.0 (1 review)
    Open 9:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Bob Shetler Recreation Area - Map of saylorville lake area

    Bob Shetler Recreation Area

    5.0(3 reviews)
    82.2 mi

    This is one of the greatest areas right at the tip of Saylorville Lake, offering a visitor's…read morecenter, playgrounds, walking and hiking trails, and easy access to the Neal Smith trail. Usually, we park the car over at the visitor center, and walk to wherever we're planning to visit throughout the lake and park area. Our dogs are small and get tired fast, so it's nice to have a centralized area with a lot to do, when they need a break. The visitor center provides access to beverage machines, maps, guides, and rules for the park areas. Off the back of the visitor center is a balcony that overlooks the lake, providing a pretty awesome view through the trees out into the water. Just a short walk northeast from the center is a butterfly garden, which actually lives up to its purpose, and just behind the garden is a heavily wooded area that leads to the beach. There are a ton of benches to sit on along the Neal Smith trail, which leads to more campgrounds, boating, and recreational sites. To the opposite direction is the actual dam, which despite its sometimes foul smell, is a sight to see. You're likely to see a few people fishing off of the dam, or just walking around the many secluded trails to view all parts of the park. Definitely recommend starting your next trip to Saylorville off on this side of the lake.

    This is a beautiful camping, fishing, and hiking spot off of Saylorville lake…read more There are plenty of benches and picnic areas to enjoy the scenery and take in the great outdoors!!! There is also great fishing right off of the Dam spillway! With lookout areas if you don't feel like fishing. Beautiful grown trees and winding paths all right outside of Des Moines!!

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    Bob Shetler Recreation Area - View of the beach from behind the Visitor Center

    View of the beach from behind the Visitor Center

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    Walking the dogs along the butterfly garden trails

    Bob Shetler Recreation Area - Shore of the dam, where fishing is acceptable

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    Shore of the dam, where fishing is acceptable

    Waterworks Park - The bridge

    Waterworks Park

    4.6(9 reviews)
    75.4 mi

    Waterworks Park is a beautiful place to take a walk, ride your bike, have a picnic…read more I love spending time on this beautiful path in the summer, there is nothing quite like going over a wood walking bridge on your bike with the shadow from the sun riding below you! This spot is so beautiful my old band even made a music video here once.. https://vimeo.com/14161874 Perfect for a family outing, or just a beautiful place to get a work out in! Bring your suntan lotion and bug spray and have a beautiful day!

    This is one of the Des Moines gems that doesn't get enough credit for all it does. It does a lot to…read morecontribute to the local community. You have access to a nice section of woods, a river and some wide open spaces. People have forgotten but they have a kind of a mini arboretum of trees in the front of the park or I should say the section nearest to Fleur drive. They were open to promoting live music events and have for many many years and they finally a build a kind of bandshell that really has wonderful acoustics and is towards the top of a hill. It's usually not very crowded so you could run walk walk your dog and really ride your bike and not feel the same bit of concern as you would have grayslake because the amount of people that are at grays, lake. Grays lake has a natural loop of 2 miles. You could get some much longer walks in within the waterworks Park. It also has several intersections of bike paths that could take you to Cummings or to the west side of Des Moines and some all the way over to the western suburbs and to the downtown. If you've never been a highly recommend you going.

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