East-central Iowa parks expand

Outdoor enthusiasts from near and far will find more to do passing through Benton County, Iowa.

The county conservation department reopened access in early June to the Atkins Roundhouse area just north of the city of Atkins.

Atkins began as a railroad town in the 1880s, and the Milwaukee Land Company (a subsidiary of the Milwaukee Road railway) bought the land for the Atkins Roundhouse…

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