Annual Geocaching Adventure

Grab your GPS, your binoculars, and hiking boots, and get ready for an adventure. Explore and discover all 25 geocaches to collect the themed trading cards. The hunt is on April 1st through November 1st. Don’t know where to start?
We welcome you to stop in to the Annett Nature Center, 15565 118th Ave., Indianola, to learn more about geocaching. Staff can provide helpful tips and tricks during our normal business hours. It’s best to give us a call at 515-961-6169 before stopping out.

Volunteer
Opportunities

Are you passionate about the environment, conservation or education? Then volunteering with WCCB could be the perfect fit for you!

Annual Summer
Nature Camps

Save the Date for
Registration Day 2026!
March 3rd, 2026
Naturalists lead an annual set of summer camps that allow children to explore and enjoy the great outdoors.

Welcome

The Warren County Conservation Board

Conservation boards are local natural resource management and outdoor recreation agencies whose responsibilities are the following: to acquire, develop, maintain and make available public museums, parks, preserves, parkways, playgrounds, recreation centers, forests, wildlife and other conservation areas, to encourage the orderly development and conservation of natural resources and to provide adequate programs of public recreation. Conservation boards also help educate local residents about the natural world in which we live, and administer roadside vegetation management programs. County conservation boards have been created in all of Iowa’s 99 counties and are governed by Chapter 350 of the Code of Iowa.

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Activities

Things to Do

We manage over 2,700 acres that are open for visitors to enjoy a variety
of year-round outdoor recreational activities.

Parks & Habitat Areas

More than 2,700 acres of land

A wide variety of activities are offered on the public lands the WCCB
conserves for this generation and generations to come.

Annett Nature Center

Bank Swallow Bend

Grant Nature Land

Hickory Hills Park

Lundy Acres

Gobblers Knob

Our History

On November 5, 1974, Warren County citizens voted to create the Warren County Conservation Board. The Board’s purpose is to encourage a state of harmony between people and the land communities upon which our lives and welfare depend, through programs of conservation, preservation, recreation, and education.