Hoover Nature Trail - West Branch:
Iowa
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Description:
This is a Rail-Trail in historic West Branch, home of the Herbert Hoover Library, Museum, and historic home site. For more information about helping the Hoover or Wabash Trace Nature Trail efforts, contact Charlie Harper, the president of Hoover Nature Trail, Inc., at 319/263-4043, or Dan Zollars, president of SWINT, Inc., at 712/246-5820.
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Nice Little Trail
By birgenfamily in June, 2011
Took the kids out for a bike ride along the trail. The trail is in pretty good shape for biking. There are crushed limestone tracks where the rail lines used to be and grass most everywhere else. It's a hard packed surface good for riding bikes on. Probably wouldn't work for high speed biking, but the trail is only three miles long, so that would be a bit silly. Lots of shady spots for breaks from the heat, but lots of spots without cover to get a breeze through. We were geocaching as we rode and there are lots of good family friendly geocaches hidden along the trail. It took us about three hours to ride from one end to the other and back stopping for geocaches every quarter mile or so.