SATURDAY TOURS - optional
Free tours:
8:30 AM - Winneshiek Farmer's Market - market manager's tour
9:00 AM - Oneota Food Coop and culinary kitchens tour
Paid tours:
HISTORIC BROADWAY DISTRICT / PORTER HOUSE MUSEUM & GARDENS - $10
9:30 AM - Guided architectural tour of Broadway historic district, Porter House Museum & its uniqie gardens, beginning at Oneota Coop
9:30 AM - 8:30 PM - VAN/BUS TOUR TO DUBUQUE - $75
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Visit Dubuque, Iowa's oldest city and one of the oldest settlements west of the Mississippi River. The first permanent European settler to the area was French-Canadian fur trader Julien Dubuque. |
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Enjoy a picnic lunch and view the Mississippi River from the heights of Eagle Point Park, with its historic Prairie Style buildings. |
| See the Dubuque Botanical Garden and Landscape Arboretum, with its 56-acre grounds, the work of volunteers. The Garden includes 900 varieties of hosta and a subtantial rose garden, Japanese and English gardens, and much more. |  |
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Visit the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and one of Iowa's outstanding tour destinations. |
Dine at Schera's Algerian-American restaurant in historic Elkader, Iowa, a community named after the beloved Algerian hero Abdelkadir El Djezairi. Nestled in a wooded valley on the Turkey River, Elkader has Old World charm-- and a notable antique mall across the street from Schera's. |
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