Horn's Ferry Bridge — Attraction in Iowa

Horns Ferry Bridge is a great place to spend an afternoon. It overlooks a pretty populated nesting site for Bald Eagles on the Des Moines River and is located next to Howell Station Campground. There are walking/hiking trails and a playground for children nearby. We watched the Eagles and pelicans in the morning and had a picnic lunch and fished in the afternoon. ...

This is a great place for bird watching. The woodland across the river from the bridge (west river bank) is the Gladys Black Bald Eagle Refuge. According to the signage it is "Iowa's most historic and well-known interior wintering site for bald eagles."

Horn's Ferry Bridge is accessible from Volksweg Trail or the nearby...

As a kid in the early 60's I remember my mom driving us across this bridge to Pella. Also, to pick up my brother and friend from canoeing down the DesMoines River. (Pre dam, they were just starting it) I returned on vacation in 1983 to see you could only walk across it and the damn done...