{"id":8656,"date":"2017-05-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=8656"},"modified":"2017-04-18T01:16:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T06:16:05","slug":"great-plains-trip-day-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/05\/great-plains-trip-day-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Plains Trip Day 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAugust 8, 2016:<\/strong> Now entering Yetter, fourth from the bottom in the Iowa alphabet. Now exiting Yetter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cedar Rapids, Iowa \u2014<\/strong> A drive on Iowa’s newest highway and to five unvisited towns scattered across three counties finished off a vacation that couldn’t have gone much better. (Even if I should have waited for that semi before turning left.)<\/p>\n

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Route: IA 175, E16, L51 to Ricketts and back, E16, N20, US 71, US 20, IA 471, IA 175, gravel, D53, IA 175, N47, old IA 286 (E26 to Lidderdale and back), US 30, X Ave (Napier), E57, US 69, US 30<\/p>\n

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\nRicketts really calls itself “Middle of Nowhere” and it is.<\/em><\/p>\n

I had seen a story on the Council Bluffs Nonpareil<\/em>‘s website about a 1945 Crawford County bow bridge<\/a> being damaged. I was going to go right past it so I had to get pictures before its potential demolition. Then I went to Schleswig to see if the old school had been torn down yet; it had<\/a>. From there it was a straight shot to Breda, where I managed to miss the exact location of IA 217’s last endpoint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Bowstring bridge, B Avenue north of E16, Crawford County. The county had a handful of these built during World War II when steel was in short supply, resurrecting an old design.<\/em><\/p>\n

New 71 is all signed with good concrete, and pictures aplenty are on the updated IA 196 page<\/a>. Stopped at Casey’s in Early for pit stop, gas, and biggest slices of pizza I’ve seen. Then I went down IA 471<\/a>, clinching the state’s newest highway as signed in the field.<\/p>\n

From what now is the US 71\/IA 175 split, I drove east to Yetter. The railroad crossing was closed for loading a long train at the elevator, but I just had to go back to N28 and down a mile and then used a gravel connector to Lake City.<\/p>\n

After Lake City I hit two other L towns \u2014 Lanesboro<\/a> and Lidderdale \u2014 and then took US 30 all the way back except for a dip down to Napier and Kelley.<\/p>\n

I finished the seven-day trip in early evening, with plenty of pictures, a lot more experience with the Plains, and a deeper kinship with the travelers of America’s past.<\/p>\n

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