Lock and Dam No. 19

Family

Great teaching and need to see when visiting. Children will love this deck. Very clean and safe for all.

A great place to view the Mississippi River

The Lock and Dam No. 19 is a good place to watch the great Mississippi flow by. You also watch barges go through the locks. It's also a good place to fish South of the Dam. In the winter you can watch...

Not Our Cup of Tea

This is not a great poor weather destination. We were here in December on a low visibility day. We climbed up to the lock overlook and saw the lock and dam on the Mississippi. It was impressive thi...

Nice View, but seldom do you see ships passing through.

The viewing platform provides a nice view for watching ships go through the lock, but we were in the area for 2 days and didn't actually see any ships go through. I don't know the frequency of barges,...

View of the Mississippi River and a 1 mile Dam, plus river lock traffic

Walk to the end of the old river bridge which crossed into Illinois and look down at the lock below and across the Mississippi River. There are many padlocks locked to the fence at the end of the wal...