Join Us!
Older, Wiser, Livelier, Souls for the 2025 grand tour of the Silos and Smokestacks
National Heritage Area. August’s destination will be a visit to the Ice House Museum in
Cedar Falls. Please meet at Osborne Park at 9:30 to carpool to our destination.
This O.W.L.S. adventure will take you to Cedar Falls to tour the Ice House Museum, a
round structure built in 1921 to hold 16 million pounds of ice. The Museum is the only
one in the U.S. that tells the story of ice harvesting in an original ice house! Join us the 3 rd
Thursday of each month, March through November, for O.W.L.S., Older Wiser Livelier
Souls. Each month will feature a new Silos and Smokestacks Site, so join us as we
explore more of the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area.
When:
August 21, 2025
Where:
29862 Osborne Road
Elkader, Iowa