The new edition of the popular Enjoy Iowa's Recreation Trails includes updated information on 43 trails at 40 different locations. This trail guide provides details about Iowa's best recreation trails in a convenient, pocket-sized book. Trailheads, local attractions and amenities, and handicap accessibility are outlined for each trail. Also included on each trail are: detailed maps, fee schedules, and trail surface types. Sized to fit backpacks, fanny packs, bike bags, and glove compartments, this personal guide to Iowa's best trails is essential for everyone who loves Iowa's great outdoors.

Part I . INTRODUCTION : 1. The Iowa landscape, past & future / Robert F. Sayre ; Part II. The LAND : 2. Changes in an Iowa landscape / Don Scheese -- 3. Prairie past & prairie present / Paul Christiansen and Robert F. Sayre -- 4. Iowa's Loess Hills / Cornelia F. Mutel ; Part III. LANDSCAPE, the COUNTRY : 5. Indian Iowa / Robert Bunge -- 6. Patterns of prairie settlement / Dorothy Schweider -- 7. German & Dutch ethnic communities / Philip E. Webber -- 8. Viewing Iowa's farmsteads / Lowell Soike ; Part IV. LANDSCAPE, the TOWNS : 9. The edge of town -- 10. Farm towns & factory towns / James Hippen -- 11. Mississippi river towns / Loren N. Horton and Robert F. Sayre -- 12. Ghost towns in the Central Des Moines River Valley / Harriet Heusinkveld ; Part V. ON the ROAD : 13. Theaters of Iowa : the historic & the unusual / John B. Harper -- 14. Iowa for collectors / Amy Godine -- 15. Transportation & the Iowa landscape / Drake Hokanson -- 16. Iowa : bicycling heaven ; Part VI. MAPS : Iowa railroad map, 1987 -- Iowa state highwar map, 1987.