Nature reserve · Iowa

Big Wall Lake Wildlife Management Area

Big Wall Lake Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Big Wall Lake Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 374 m. The nearest named place is Gun Club Corner, a nature reserve 7.9 miles away. Great River Road passes 127 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 374 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates42.62391, -93.65454

127.3 mi off the Great River Road, National

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Clarion City Park: 8.3 mi
Dows Park: 8.4 mi
Bringham Park: 8.5 mi
Gazebo Park: 8.5 mi
East Park: 8.5 mi

Nature reserves51

Gun Club Corner: 7.9 mi
Groom Area: 7.9 mi
Dows River Access: 8.1 mi
Prairie Smoke Wildlife Area - West Unit: 8.1 mi
Prairie Smoke Wildlife Area - Central Unit: 8.3 mi

Museums15

Quasdorf Wagon, Machine and Blacksmith Shop Museum: 8.2 mi
4-H Schoolhouse Museum: 8.6 mi
Heartland Museum: 8.7 mi
Eagle Grove Historical Society: 13.1 mi
Belmond Historical Museum: 15.5 mi

Historic sites5

Dows Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock: 8.2 mi
Eide Memorial Fountain: 10.4 mi
Eagle Grove War Memorial: 12.9 mi
Old Dam: 15.5 mi
Iowa Falls Veterans Memorial: 20.7 mi

Rest areas1

I-35 Dows Rest Stop: 10.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:19	18:50	19:27
June solstice	05:38	20:14	20:57
September equinox	07:03	18:37	19:14
December solstice	07:42	15:59	16:45

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	16	21	34	47	60	70	73	71	64	51	35	22
Precip in	0.7	0.9	2.0	3.8	4.8	5.8	4.0	4.1	3.1	2.3	1.5	1.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarion, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/271900932

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