Activities to Enjoy

Activities to Enjoy

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The Holiday Shores Motel is your "Gateway to Great River Fun; and the surrounding area of Northeast Iowa and Southwest Wisconsin offers a wide range of exciting year round activities with something for everyone.

Whether Summer - Canoeing, kayaking, motorboating, biking, motorcycling, swimming, fishing, hiking, birding, guided cave tours, riverboat gaming

or Winter - Snowmobiling, snowshoeing, cross-county skiing, icefishing, birding, riverboat gaming

they're all here for your enjoyment.

Want to try more than one?

We offer vacation packages that can include:

Accommodations at the Holiday Shores

Riverboat tours

Riverside Bar-B-Que

Kayak/canoe rentals and lessons

and more!!

In cooperation with local outfitters we offer kayak/canoe lessons and excursions using the Holiday Shores as your base camp. Enjoy the Mississippi, Yellow and Wisconsin Rivers by day and at night sit by our riverside firepit and enjoy a BarBQ prepared specially for you. Call for prices and custom vacation packages.

Kayaking and canoeing are great ways to enjoy rivers. You become one with the water and experience things not accessible to power boaters. Try gliding up in an outboard boat through 6 inches of water to watch a turtle sunning on a river bank and you'll understand. Bring your own kayaks or canoes, or we can make arrangements to provide them to you.

A kayak/canoe trail passes directly in front of the Holiday Shores and the confluence of the Wisconsin River with the Mississippi River is 3 miles south of us. You can even launch from the sand bar directly in front of the Holiday Shores Motel. These are just a few of the many opportunities and places to enjoy. You won't be able to do it all in a single day, so plan more than one!

The Upper Mississippi River Valley is a major migration route for numerous species of birds making this area world famous for birdwatching. Over 40% of North American waterfowl and shorebirds use this route.

Mississipi River - a bird watcher's paradise

Whether by motorcycle or bicycle, the Great River Road and Mississippi River Trail, traveling through McGregor, along the Mississippi River through its many scenic river cities offer great history, adventure and the occasional snack break.

Enjoy your days on the road and your nights relaxing watching the river flow at the Holiday Shores motel.

Click the following links for info:

Motorcycling the Great River Road

Bicycling the Great River Road

Bicycling Iowa's Mississippi River Trail

Iowa's Mississippi River Trail for Bicycle

Beautiful scenery and great exercise with each pedal stroke.

Power boating allows you to enjoy the beauty that the Mississippi has to offer with the added advantage of getting there fast! With so much boatable water on the Mississippi River, there's a whole lot to see and with the adjacent McGregor City Marina offering overnight and extended stay boat slips for a very reasonable fee and a free - public boat launch and ample public parking lot; access is ever so convenient. For smaller boats such as canoe, kayaks and some run abouts, the adjacent sand bar can provide a convenient place to pull out.

Boat rentals, including houseboats are available in the immediate area. We can provide you with contact names and phone number or make arrangements for you.

Enjoy the ride on a Mississippi River tour boat. We'll make the arrangements and you can sit back and relax. You'll be picked up at the adjacent marina. Group discounts are available!

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Like to go fishing? The Mississippi River in the McGregor/Prairie du Chien area offers a variety of opportunities for fishing; from relaxing on a lawn chair or sitting on our seawall in front of the Holiday Shores, to wetting your line in one of the many back bays, channels and tributary streams and rivers in the area. Don't have a boat, we can "hook you up" with one of the local fishing guides who will take you out to one of their "hot spots" to enjoy a day of fishing and hopefully your own fresh caught fish dinner that night at the Holiday Shores. Need a grill? We can lend you one. Someone to bait your hook? Sorry, you're on your own!

The area around the Holiday Shores offers a variety of hiking at several state parks. Forested hiking trails and spectacular vistas are just minutes away at Pikes Peak Park. For an amazing panoramic view of the Missississpi River Valley from Pike's Peak click here

Pike Peak's Park overlook view.

What could be a better way to relax than watching the river flow and the Mississippi being a working river has plenty to watch. Fascination by day, it's an awesome sight at night to see barges pass by as their powerful navigation lights search the river for channel markers to stay on path.

Feeling Lucky? Try your hand at the Lady Luck Casino Marquette, 1 mile north of the Holiday Shores Motel in Marquette, IA. The Lady Luck provides a shuttle van to take you between the Holiday Shores and the casino.

People seem drawn to fire. Whether you need to satisfy some primitive urge or just to get a few Smores going, we have the place for you. Holiday Shores has a large riverside firepit complete with seating and loads of cut wood ready to satisfy your deepest burning desires.

Like Bar-B-Que ----- who doesn't?

Reserve 20 or more rooms Monday - Thursday summertime and we'll throw a free Bar-B-Que for ya to enjoy Riverside! Stay with us Friday - Sunday and for groups of ten or more rooms, we can arrange a catered Bar-B-Que. Want to prepare your own, we can loan you the grill and tools. There's grocery stores in Prairie du Chien to get the fixins, so you don't need to tote your victuals and libations with you.

Bar-B-Que is great and Riverside it's a treat that can't be beat.

Looking for something special, let us know what you have in mind and we'll see what we can do to help.

Call us at 563-873-3449 to see what we have for you.