- Mount Hosmer (Iowa)
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Mount Hosmer Elevation 1,040 ft (317 m) Location Location Allamakee County, Iowa, USA Coordinates 43°21′59″N 91°13′20″W / 43.36639°N 91.22222°W Climbing Easiest route Road entrance Mount Hosmer is a bluff overlooking Lansing, Iowa. It is located directly adjacent to the Upper Mississippi River and offers a panoramic view of the river, including the Black Hawk Bridge. Mount Hosmer rises 450 feet above downtown Lansing.
Accessible from Lansing, Mount Hosmer Park is a popular destination for photographers. According to a plaque inside the park, Mount Hosmer is named for Harriet Hosmer, a sculptor, who won a footrace to the summit of the hill during a steamboat layover during the 1850s. [1]
Notes
- ^ Sherwood, Dolly, ‘’Harriet Hosmer, American Sculptor: 1830-1908’’ University of Missouri Press, Columbia MO, 1991, p. 31
See also
- Pikes Peak, a similar park atop a bluff in Clayton County
Categories:- Geography of Iowa
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