We drove up north a ways to hike the Swiss Valley Nature Area, just south of Dubuque, IA. We've been here a few times and it is a beautiful area to hike. There was a new letterbox, so Matt has been determined to hike there for the past few months! After finding the box, we headed down to the creek bed and the kids played in the water for a bit. Upon returning to the parking lot, we decided to see if the nature center was open so we could use the restrooms. It was open and we ended up spending another hour in the center. They had some wonderful displays and even got to pet a snake that the ranger brought out for us!
We left Swiss Valley Nature Center and headed south a ways to the Maquoketa Caves State Park. We were actually allowed to enter the caves again after being closed the past few years due to a national epidemic with the death of so many bats. We didn't do much crawling, but had fun hiking and poking our heads in some of the smaller caves. We enjoyed being able to go through some of the bigger caves.
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