We had been talking about activating a park for a few weeks. Then on February 23, 2020 instead of scoping out a park to activate, we just went and did it. We activated Wild Cat Den State Park in Muscatine County in Iowa and it was awesome.
I recently moved back to the Mid-west from Southern California. I don’t know much about the Quad Cities Area because I grew up on the northwest side of Chicago. When you activate a park, you make a day out of it. Load up your truck with gear, meet your friends for lunch at Jeff’s Market in Blue Grass IA, stop and check out points of interest along the way, like The Pine Creek Grist Mill, and then set up your station at the park.