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From what I remember from road trips into southwest Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota, I suspect that is probably what a lot of northeast Iowa is also like. That you can see rock formations, on the sides of hills at times. I didn't spend as much time in northeast Iowa outside Dubuque as much as I would've liked, I'll add. But the little I did see, looked nice. Wish I could've gotten up to the town of Decorah, since it looked really nice on street view.
I remember seeing one such rock formation near Madison, Indiana, in southern Indiana. But yeah, I think you're right there are fewer rock formations in southern Indiana, and that it's more hills covered in trees. Also GraniteStater is right that there are more caves in south Indiana, vs. in Iowa, and probably also Minnesota and Wisconsin too within their driftless regions.
Madison, IN has a large park with trails, Clifty Falls State Park that is interesting. Unfortunately the setting is completely marred by a large power plant nearby, hopefully it retires shortly as it is 65-70 years old and very obsolete/inefficient.
From what I remember from road trips into southwest Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota, I suspect that is probably what a lot of northeast Iowa is also like. That you can see rock formations, on the sides of hills at times. I didn't spend as much time in northeast Iowa outside Dubuque as much as I would've liked, I'll add. But the little I did see, looked nice. Wish I could've gotten up to the town of Decorah, since it looked really nice on street view.
I remember seeing one such rock formation near Madison, Indiana, in southern Indiana. But yeah, I think you're right there are fewer rock formations in southern Indiana, and that it's more hills covered in trees. Also GraniteStater is right that there are more caves in south Indiana, vs. in Iowa, and probably also Minnesota and Wisconsin too within their driftless regions.
There is basically no geographic difference between SE MN and NE IA. SW WI is super similar, but they had some different factors going on east of the Mississippi that lends a slightly different topography to the land. More "peak" type appearances to those hills, where in Iowa and Minnesota you're visibly dealing with a dissected plateau.
I have driven through most of these three states. I would go
Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana in that order, but it's pretty close all around. Oklahoma actually surprised me a bit.
Indiana's shoreline is a tiny part of the state. It does have some nice countryside in the southern part - we drove from NWI to Evansville several times, and the northern half of that drive sucks, but once you get south of Terre Haute - it's pretty nice down there, scenery wise.
Iowa's western half is very pretty rolling farmland - pleasant to the eye. Eastern half is pretty flat and boring though.
I would put all three of these states ahead of Nebraska or Kansas, or even my home state of Illinois.
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