Thanks to Matt’s and Caryn’s suggestion, we stopped at Mud Island today, where there is a scale model of the Mississippi river that you can walk along (and in!).
It’s about half a mile long, and the water gets to about a foot deep or so in places. It is one of our favorite places we’ve visited thus far. At the very end is a big wading pool, and a bigger one representing the Gulf of Mexico, in which you can rent paddle boats, though we didn’t.
#1 by Susan on 24 July 2009 - 11:49 pm
I really, really loved this place. The model was so cool and interactive and informative and clever. Major cities and bridges were inlaid on the sides, major tributaries added in along the way. It was awesome!!!
#2 by Wendy on 25 July 2009 - 10:36 pm
Sounds like it was a lot of fun!
Welcome back to the East!
#3 by tastewar on 26 July 2009 - 9:01 am
It was! And we’d highly recommend it to anyone coming this way.