Spring Wildflower Hike with Iowa Native Plant Society & Friends of YRSF

A Spring Wildflower Hike with the Iowa Native Plant Society & Friends of Yellow River State Forest will be held at Yellow River State Forest Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 10 a.m.

Please meet at the YRSF Forest office, 729 State Forest Road, Harpers Ferry, Iowa. We will carpool to the Paint Rock Unit for the hike. 

Denis Kuhen & MJ Hatfield will lead us on a walk to greet spring and enjoy the ephemeral flowers, close up and long distant views, and of course birds. 

On this spring meander we’ll walk a good path with reasonable grade through woods, eventually arriving at several native American mounds just before an almost sudden long view through the trees to an expanse of sky, opening onto a goat prairie high above the Mississippi River & the Great River Road. The meander is approximately three miles round trip, fairly flat until the goat prairie.  

For weather related announcements check the Friends of Yellow River State Forest Facebook page or www.friendsofyellowriverstateforest.org.