It was very seamless and very easy to work with the team. I had a great experience renting a…read morestorage unit from them 10 out of 10! Would recommend

Great people to work with. We added extra hour to our original booking and they had no problem and…read moreinexpensive! Bikes were great.

Easy to rent storage units. Everything is done online. Zenith Avenue location was centrally…read morelocated for lakes area. Everything was well kept. Will use this storage location again.

I needed storage and called Lakes Area Storage and 3 others. Lakes Area Storage was the only one to…read morereturn my call. What luck that was! I had a wonderful experience for all 6 months there. Clean units and easy to access as well as vacate when the time came, thank you!

I return to visit Estherville about once a year and I usually make it a point to stop by, look…read morearound and maybe even mail a letter. The Estherville Post Office is located near the old Middle School and next to where the old Elks Club used to be. It's also kitty-corner to Bud's Cafe, which when I grew up was a storefront with a stairway that fellow paperboys would wait a 6 AM for our allotments. My father had a larger mail slot at this post office. He used it for both his business and the family mail and there was many a day that a trip to see what was inside was filled with anticipation. Sometimes it was a letter from the cousins or maybe a package that needed to be picked up front. I also enjoyed walking around the lobby, admiring the banks of mail slots, and talking with the guys up front.

Pleasantly surprised! This self-guided tour made our pit stop well worth the trip! The amount of…read moreartifacts and historical items blew my mind. They literally created a village which was able to take us back in time. The $6 for adults was well worth the price. The volunteers were friendly and informative. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend you stop by.

What a delightful Village, showing life on the prairie. So many events there on 4th of July…read more Wonderful! I will go back.

REVIEW #4700!…read more Sweetcorn Days is my home town's big summer festival and arguably the annual highlight of Estherville's social calendar. It's sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and runs from Thursday - Sunday during the first weekend in August. Event highlights include the Opening Ceremonies (Presentation of the Flames/Burning of the Cobs), the Remember the Fallen Display, Classic Cars, the Run for the Cobb Foot Race, Free Sweet Corn, and of course the big Saturday Morning Parade. And that's just the tip of the iceberg event-wise. I was in the Parade as Sweetcorn Days is a great weekend for various High School Reunion classes to get together. For the Class of 1974 (Yes I'm Old), that included our own Parade float, followed up dinner later that day at the Softtail Saloon in Superior, and lots of good conversation with a room full of friends. I had a great time and I was particularly happy to show off my home town to Gayle and my Son. Both in turn, learned a little bit more about where I'm from and how we stand together. One name for that is Midget Pride.

My parents have had a summer-only cabin on Big Spirit Lake since around 1970. It's a quieter place…read morethan nearby Lake Okoboji and it still has a magical appeal to me, especially when I return each summer with Gayle and my son. The Iowa Great Lakes area itself has become more of a year-round residence for many and sometimes I toy with the idea of doing that myself. It's not California, but it is home (and regardless of the weather). I remember 2 experiences at nearby Spirit Lake High School that resulted in life long importance. The first was my mother's strong insistence that I take typing one summer. I pulled out every stop to not go there and stay at the Lake, but my mother would allow no dissent. She insisted that it was a life skill and that I needed to learn it. And as I look back to my profession, my prolific writing, and the sheer number of times I have had to "step-up" at the typewriter or the keyboard, I only have her to thank. The second experience was my short career on the High School football team as an offensive guard. After the star player was suspended for a rule infraction (a rare occurrence then in small town sports), I was chosen to be the starter one Friday night against the Spirit Lake Indians at their home field on Hill Avenue. I took this opportunity seriously, practiced hard, did what I was told, and yet, I still failed (and sometimes on my back). But as Zig Ziglar says, if you can look up, you can get up. And that is what I did. The next time I went out on that football field, I did much better, even though I never did start again. And so it goes with committed relationships and being a father......

This is the Dickinson County Freedom Rock. Completing the Freedom Rock tour of all 99 Iowa…read morecounties is something my girlfriend and I have been working on for the past few years. We are four rocks away from the end of our journey at this time. Not only do we learn about the military involvement and the contributions of veterans in each county... A lot of times we stumble on other hidden gems, that we had no idea even existed, as we venture further into our own backyard. As happy as I am going to be when hit 99 and finish our Freedom Rock Tour...a little part of me is going to really miss these trips. We'll just have to find another "tour" to pick up! When you are checking out each Freedom Rock make sure you explore the surrounding area for other points of interest. And please remember to support local businesses...! Visit https://www.thefreedomrock.com/ for more information on Iowa's Freedom Rocks and the tour!