(Arnolds Park)– Time to get the docks out and the boats in the water. The Iowa Great Lakes are once again officially ice-free for another season.
Kirk Ewen of Arnolds Park keeps track of the official freeze-thaw dates of the Iowa Great Lakes. He tells KUOO news what was left of the ice officially left East Lake Okoboji April 6th. The last of the ice on West Lake Okoboji melted April 8th.
Those dates are about a week later than last year, when the ice went out of East Lake on April 1st and left West Lake Okoboji on April 3rd.
