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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site A small white cottage with pink flowers blooming in front.
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
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Bicycle riding is permitted on all paved streets and parking lots, and on the asphalt walkway leading from the core historic area to the loop road only. Bicycle riding is not permitted on boardwalks or sidewalks. The Visitor Center parking lot has a bicycle rack.

A state road map for bicyclists is available from the Iowa Department of Transportation.

 
Bicyclists along West Branch's Main Street pause to look at the historic downtown buildings.
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RAGBRAI--the annual bicycle race across Iowa--passed through West Branch and by Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in 2006.
Pupils' desks, part of the Schoolhouse furnishings.
Historic Homes on Downey Street
West Branch boomed with new buildings constructed in the near the Hoovers’ small cottage.
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Wooden picnic shelter.
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Yellow coneflowers in the lush green prairie grass.

Did You Know?
General Land Office surveyors who first came to Iowa commented that the territory was fit only for waterfowl. Eighty-five percent of Iowa used to be soggy tallgrass prairie.
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Last Updated: November 17, 2011 at 14:02 MST