Iowa’s 2026 pheasant season opens Saturday, October 31, and Sac County sits in the part of the state where the birds are. The DNR’s August roadside survey counted 23 birds per route statewide, the second-highest average since 2015, and the upland game biologist who runs that program expects the northwest to hunt about like last…
The Sac County barn quilts started in 2005, and a half-day loop past them is one of the better ways to spend an afternoon here. They are eight-foot quilt blocks painted in bright primary colors and mounted high on barns and corn cribs, almost all on hard-surface roads, set five to ten miles apart along…
Sac County, Iowa sits in the northwest quadrant of the state, where four-lane U.S. Highway 20 crosses U.S. Highway 71. The short version: the day starts at Black Hawk Lake and ends somewhere you did not plan on. The lake at Lake View covers 957 acres and is the southernmost natural glacial lake in the…
The World’s Largest Popcorn Ball lives in its own shelter at the Sac City Museum Village in Sac City, Iowa, the seat of Sac County. Hundreds of volunteers built it in June 2016 and forklifted it to Main Street that July. It weighs about 9,370 pounds and stands more than eight feet tall, and you…
Black Hawk Lake sits on the edge of Lake View in Sac County, Iowa, and it is the southernmost natural glacial lake in the United States. At 957 acres with no motor-size restrictions, it is built for a full day on the water: walleye and crappie for the anglers, open water for the boats and…
