CLAYTON, Iowa - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park's visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with a ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called our national parks “America’s Best Idea.” As distinctly American ...

CLAYTON COUNTY, Iowa (KCRG) - A $12 million plan to save part of the Effigy Mounds National Monument is underway. Work is planned along the Sny Magill Effigy Mounds National Monument, 12 miles south ...

Repeated Mississippi River flooding is threatening prehistoric burial mounds that comprise Iowa’s only national monument, and the U..S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking for public input on plans to ...

There are many popular destinations in the Hawkeye State that attract visitors by the thousands-and usually for good reason: ...

Officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will hold an open house tonight at the Effigy Mounds National Monument Visitor Center in Harpers Ferry to discuss plans to protect the area from ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, is seeking public comments on its draft plan to protect the Sny Magill-Effigy Mounds, near Guttenberg, Iowa, along the Mississippi River. The draft ...

National Park Service museum technician Sheila Oberreuter walks Sept. 13 along coir logs put in place two seasons ago to provide temporary protection from erosion at the Sny Magill unit of Effigy ...

Brian Gibbs lost his job as a national park ranger on Friday. He was working as an environmental educator at the Effigy Mounds National Monument in northeast Iowa. It was his "dream job," he wrote in ...