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June 27th, 2024

Outdoor Adventures on the Historic Jefferson Highway

  1. Outdoor Adventures on the Historic Jefferson Highway Big Blend Radio 57:55

Celebrate Great Outdoors Month and National Rivers Month with this episode of Big Blend Radio’s “Historic Jefferson Highway” Show that focuses on Itasca State Park in Minnesota and the Empress Boat Club in Iowa Falls.

FEATURED GUESTS:

– ROGER BELL, President of the Jefferson Highway Association. Info: https://jeffersonhighway.org/  

– CONNIE COX – Lead Interpretive Naturalist at Itasca State Park in Minnesota. More: https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/park.html?id=spk00181#homepage 

– JESSICA TJARKS – Empress Boat Club in Iowa Falls, Iowa. More: http://www.empressboatclub.org/ 

The Jefferson Highway Association originally founded the Jefferson Highway in 1915. This international highway is also known as “The Pines to the Palms Highway,” that runs from Winnipeg, Canada to New Orleans, Louisiana. This Big Blend Radio “Historic Jefferson Highway” Podcast airs every 4th Thursday at 6pm CST. Follow the show here: https://jefferson-highway.podbean.com/ 

Featured photo of Mississippi Headwaters with People, Copyright (2024), State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources. Reprinted with Permission courtesy of MN DNR. Photo of Empress Boat, courtesy Empress Boat Club.


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Lisa Smith Big Blend Radio

We are Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Magazines, hosts of Big Blend Radio, full-time travelers on the Love Your Parks Tour where we document parks and public lands across the country. Being digital nomads we also pet sit on our travels, and we love it!

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