Paddling near Council Bluffs, IA
Sitting in Pottawattamie County on the Iowa bank of the Missouri River directly across from Omaha, Council Bluffs opens onto a two-state metro lake network of Iowa DNR parks and Nebraska USACE reservoirs. The flagship is Lake Manawa State Park, a 784-acre oxbow formed by an 1881 Missouri River flood, with the 811-acre oxbow at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge roughly 30 miles north.
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