(Arnolds Park)– Get the boat ready–the ice has officially gone out of the Iowa Great Lakes.
Kirk Ewen of Arnolds Park keeps track of the official freeze-thaw dates of the lakes. He tells KUOO news the ice went out of East Lake Okoboji Monday (March 26th) and West Lake was ice-free Wednesday (March 28th).
That compares to last year when the ice went out of East Lake Okoboji April 4th and West Lake April 5th.




