Des Moines Water Works Park — Attraction in Des Moines

This place is huge! I didn't realize how big it was my first few visits, but it just keeps going! I think it would be easiest to explain as 3 different areas. One area near Gray Lake, with a small and large stage - this is where the public events are - has a nice playground, circle walking path, nice clean bathrooms, lots of water fountains and trash cans, always very upkept, also has a few sculptures, and is handicap accessible. A second area is a series of what I can best describe as ponds that seem good for fishing. Lots of people fishing here. This area is the opposite of the last one. Lots of bugs, overgrown, some trash around, no facilities in this area, but very pretty - was scared by a snake 😅. After this area is another large area that is in-between the two. Big open upkept areas, less bugs as the grass is short but more towards a very large pond in the middle, several picnic tables, there was a shelter area with tables that might have had restrooms, but there was a large group using the area so didn't check that part out yet. Seems large enough with enough variety that it could meet whatever someone is looking for in a park. Not sure if it has any wooded trails, but tons of space to walk and check things out. Also right by Gray's lake and Jasper winery - lots to do in...

When Slartibartfast was designing Carhenge, during a moment of intense concentration he absentmindedly pressed his resting elbow too hard on a portion of Iowa creating a little low lying area in the center of Des Moines, notorious for flooding. More spacious than Central Park, and once home to the Hinterland festival, it exists as both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. Stand by... In the evening of November 22, 1963, Wendell Watterwurks (original lead singer of the pop band Tears for Fears) was wandering the boardwalk along the shore of the the 102 river in Maryville, Missouri, when he received a text message. Fraught with blandness after learning of the death of Aldous Huxley, Watterwurks nimbly fell into the glacial runoff, never to be seen alive again. The body never recovered (and his soul inhabited a talking Tina doll until 3955 when a cobalt bomb destroyed Earth), but the search along the river lead to the discovery of what is now referred to as Waterworks Park. Local Des Moinians don’t like the name as they believe it is a jab at their regional trait of incontinence when frightened, but now you know, The Rest...

If you ever choose to go to a concert here, don’t. The walk is horrendous. Waiting in line for a beer for untrained event staff to serve was about an hour and a half for me. The event that I went to didn’t seem like a super popular concert but they charged you $20 for chicken strips and $25 for a burger and fries. Beers are about nine dollars apiece, depending on the event. They had a lot of porter potties, which was great and I never had to wait for a bathroom. The service was absolutely horrible in that area so if you lose your friends then you are out of luck because it took me about three hours to get service back in the area even with priority service at US cellular. Probably the worst place to have an event. June was really rough because obviously it was pretty hot at the end of the month. They move up their times normally to 630 from seven but none of the artists start till 8 PM. When you have a line that long it’s miserable. I sold my other concert tickets because it was at the same venue. I would recommend never going to a...