Topic: Des Moines River

From Hotel Fort Des Moines, following Fleur Drive to the lake and back makes a brisk 4.5 miler. Downtown Des Moines offers urban jogging trails that hook up with some downtown attractions. The Greenbelt trailhead proper starts about 7 miles northwest ...
I'm in the Midwest this week, visiting family. I was walking down the bank of the Des Moines River, marveling at the destruction the flooding had caused, chatting away with a relative about... I was sharing my admiration for a particular ...

Des Moines River

Des Moines River, river rising in Lake Shetek in southwestern Minnesota, U.S., near Pipestone, and flowing 525 mi (845 km) in a southeasterly direction to join the Mississippi River 2 mi southwest of Keokuk, Iowa. From the late 1830s until the ...

Iowans assess damage from deadly flood waters

Officials moved paintings, books and documents out of harm's way on Sunday as record flooding in parts of the U.S. Midwest partly submerged the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.. Flood waters prompted the removal of valuable items from ...