Dolliver Memorial State Park: Difference between revisions

Template:Geobox Protected Area Dolliver Memorial State Park is a state park in Webster County, Iowa. Dolliver is 10 miles south of Fort Dodge, and 3 miles (4.8 km) northwest of Lehigh.

Park Closed

The entire campground is undergoing renovation and will unavailable until approximately Oct. 31, 2008. This includes the cabins as access will be impacted. Check the Iowa DNR website for updates.

History

The 457-acre (1.85 km²) park was dedicated in 1925 and was purchased for $38,500.

Unique features

Dolliver State Park has a bluff that shows a cross-section of a 150-million year old river bed, which has been uncovered by Prairie Creek. The sandstone has left minerals behind such as calcite and sulfur.

Boneyard Hollow

A narrow ravine between two rock faces has been named Boneyard Hollow due to discoveries of American Bison bones in the area. It is thought that the first inhabitants ran herds off the cliff to their death or cornered the buffalo and butchered them. In the same area, a picnicking family discovered a lead tablet inscribed in Latin. The tablet claimed it was left by Louis Hennepin in 1701. This tablet was found to be a hoax, but the interest in the area helped spring interest in purchasing the park.

References

Iowa DNR website for Dolliver State Park

Protected areas of Iowa

Federal

National monument	Effigy Mounds
National Historic Site	Herbert Hoover
National Wildlife Refuges	DeSoto Driftless Area Neal Smith Northern Tallgrass Prairie Port Louisa Union Slough Upper Mississippi River

State

State Parks	Ambrose A. Call Backbone Badger Creek Banner Lakes at Summerset Beeds Lake Bellevue Big Creek Black Hawk Brushy Creek Cedar Rock Clear Lake Dolliver Memorial Elk Rock Elinor Bedell Emerson Bay Fairport Fort Defiance Geode George Wyth Memorial Green Valley Gull Point Honey Creek Lacey-Keosauqua Lake Ahquabi Lake Anita Lake Darling Lake Keomah Lake Macbride Lake Manawa Lake of Three Fires Lake Wapello Ledges Lewis and Clark Lower Gar Maquoketa Caves Marble Beach McIntosh Woods Mines of Spain & E.B. Lyons Mini-Wakan Nine Eagles Okamanpedan Palisades-Kepler Pikes Peak Pikes Point Pilot Knob Pillsbury Point Pine Lake Pleasant Creek Prairie Rose Preparation Canyon Red Haw Rice Lake Rock Creek Springbrook Stone Templar Trapper's Bay Twin Lakes Union Grove Viking Lake Volga River Walnut Woods Wapsipinicon Waubonsie Wildcat Den Wilson Island
State Forests	Backbone Barkley Gifford Holst Loess Hills Pilot Mound Shimek Stephens White Pine Hollow Yellow River
State Preserves	A.F. Miller Ames High Prairie Anderson Prairie Behrens Pond and Woodlands Berry Woods Bird Hill Bixby Bluffton Fir Stand Brush Creek Canyon Brushy Creek Cameron Woods Casey's Paha Catfish Creek Cayler Prairie Cedar Bluffs Cedar Hills Sand Prairie Cheever Lake Clay Prairie Claybanks Forest Cold Water Spring Crossman Prairie Decorah Ice Cave Dinesen Prairie Doolittle Prairie Fallen Rock Fish Farm Mounds Five Ridge Prairie Fleming Woods Fort Atkinson Freda Haffner Kettlehole Gitchie Manitou Hanging Bog Hardin City Woodland Hartley Fort Hayden Prairie Hoffman Prairie Indian Bluffs Primitive Area Indian Fish Trap Iowa's State Preserves System Kalsow Kish-Ke-Kosh Prairie Lamson Woods Liska-Stanek Prairie Little Maquoketa Malanaphy Springs Malchow Mounds Manikowski Prairie Mann Wilderness Area Marietta Sand Prairie Mericle Woods Merrill A. Stainbrook Merritt Forest Montauk Mossy Glen Mount Pisgah Cemetery Mount Talbot Nestor Stiles Prairie Ocheyedan Mound Old State Quarry Palisades-Downs Pecan Grove Pellett Woods Pilot Grove Pilot Knob Retz Woods Roberts Creek Rock Creek Island Rock Island Roggman Boreal Slopes Rolling Thunder Prairie Saint James Lutheran Church Savage Woods Searryl's Cave Sheeder Prairie Silver Lake Fen Silvers-Smith Woods Slinde Mounds Starr's Cave Steele Prairie Stinson Prairie Strasser Woods Sylvan Runkel Toolesboro Mounds Turin Loess Hills Turkey River Mounds White Pine Hollow Williams Prairie Wittrock Indian Village Woodland Mounds Woodman Hollow Woodthrush

County

State Parks (Leased)	Bobwhite Cold Springs Crystal Lake Eagle Lake Echo Valley Frank A. Gotch Heery Woods Lake Cornelia Lake Icaria Kearny Margo Frankel Mill Creek Oak Grove Oakland Mills Pammel Sharon Bluffs Spring Lake Swan Lake Three Mile Lake

Iowa Department of Natural Resources

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 '''Dolliver Memorial State Park''' is a [[state park]] in [[Webster County, Iowa|Webster County]], [[Iowa]].
-Dolliver is 10 [[mile|miles]] south of [[Fort Dodge, Iowa|Fort Dodge]], and {{convert|3|mi|km}} northwest of [[Lehigh, Iowa|Lehigh]].
+Dolliver is 10 [[mile]]s south of [[Fort Dodge, Iowa|Fort Dodge]], and {{convert|3|mi|km}} northwest of [[Lehigh, Iowa|Lehigh]].
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 ==History==
-The {{convert|457|acre|sqkm|sing=on}} park was dedicated in 1925 and was purchased for $38,500.
+The {{convert|457|acre|km2|sing=on}} park was dedicated in 1925 and was purchased for $38,500.
 ==Unique features==
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 * [http://www.iowadnr.com/parks/state_park_list/dolliver.html [[Iowa DNR]] website for Dolliver State Park]
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Revision as of 19:01, 7 June 2008

Park Closed

History

Unique features

Boneyard Hollow

References