We have gone here several times (from 2 hours away) to go camping. This trip was a full week long. If you go when the Des Moines river is low,you can walk across to Iowa. We took kayaks and drove people to Farmington Iowa, they had a great hour and a half float back to Battle of Athens. Since we went during the week we were the only ones there. We had a great time and the ranges are very nice.