Consisting of more than 72 parks, Des Moines offers visiting families an abundance of outdoor activities. Perhaps one of the most popular, Gray’s Lake Park, intersects downtown Des Moines with 167-acres of trail-lined, lakefront scenery. Also found within the city’s center is the historic Valley Junction. Famed as Des Moines’ old railroad district, the junction now offers visitors innumerable boutique shops, galleries and family-friendly restaurants. Claiming to be ‘Iowa’s Wildest Adventure,’ the Blank Park Zoo showcases over 30 exhibits, geared toward educating youth as much as entertaining them. The zoo’s Discovery Center portrays rare animals within natural environments, and their newest exhibition Dino-Plex stuns the public with life-sized prehistoric replicas up to 32 feet long. For an even higher dose of adrenaline, Adventureland combines over 100 rides with an astonishing water park, sure to impress every member of the family.
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