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Forest City, Iowa |
| Welcome to Forest City, Iowa. Forest City is often called "the smallest big town in Iowa". With a population of 4,500 people in 4.2 square miles. Forest City is a city in Hancock and Winnebago Counties in the U.S. state of Iowa, and the county seat of Winnebago County. It is the headquarters of Winnebago Industries, which manufactures motorhomes. It is also the home of Waldorf College, a small college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Forest City claims to be the smallest city in the United States with its own YMCA. Pilot Knob State Park is located a few miles east of the city. Forest City Community Schools operates a wind turbine that provides 60% of the energy needs of elementary, middle, and high school. | |
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The visitor center - and
a cute little RV that says "THINK BIG" on the back of it. |
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| the visitor center building - and a miniature recreation of the visitor center building that can be seen inside the visitor center. | |
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inside the visitor center |
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The new yard of the two RV Gypsies
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view from their front window |
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the view from behind the
RV of the two RV Gypsies |
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looking at the RV from the lake area |
This is pretty in the lake, but the USA flag is not in good condition. |
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| Three Fingers Campground is nice with 92 sites with water and electric hookups and 38 water sites with sewer hookups and 50 amp electrical; but if you have a big RV, be sure to have a reservation, as big spots seem to be filled constantly by local people. On the other side of the lake, there were several spots for really small RV's. The lake is pretty big, and they have two old paddleboats campers can use for free, which is a very nice way to spend an afternoon. Full hook-ups but No cable, No Wi-fi. | |
| A small park in Forest City with a neat suspension bridge. Each slab of wood had someone's name engraved on it. This was about the only thing the two RV Gypsies found interesting in the area. | |
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view from each side of
the small suspension bridge |
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| The two RV Gypsies had dinner at The Lodge for Lee's birthday, and lunch there on another occasion. It was good food at a reasonable price, decent service, and a nice view from the veranda. Forest City had decent food at several places. | |
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| The two RV Gypsies were in Forest City, Iowa to have repairs done to their RV at the Winnebago repair center. They took a free tour of the Winnebago factory. It took three days and a lot of money for the repairs. Winnebago supplies you with a camp spot outside the repair center or just up the hill from it. Electric hook-ups only, but there is free Wi-Fi. If your RV is there for repairs, you must have it at the repair center by 7 A.M. and be back at the repair center by 3 P.M. as they close at 3:30 P.M. Then you park your RV in your spot for the evening and repeat the procedure the next morning until repairs are done. Most people sat in the lounge area of the repair center all day while their RV was being repaired. There really wasn't much to do in Forest City all day while waiting for your RV to be repaired. It sucked being "homeless all day" | |
| Karen chose to go the the local YMCA and use their hot tub, swimming pool, steam room and sauna. At a visitor's cost of $10 daily, it was well worth it. Karen also got a nice massage at the YMCA. The director/manager of the YMCA saw Lee in the YMCA waiting room waiting to pick Karen up and introduced himself to Lee. He was extremely pleasant, as was Sharon, the front desk person, and the female lifeguard. A very pleasant YMCA. | |
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a rose for Brian Lee Duquette is left at the memorial |
