When I’m bored and want to travel, but don’t quite know where, I’ll sometimes pick a road and travel its entirety.

On this occasion, that road was Iowa state route 136, which goes from Clinton to Dyersville.

The highway is not a major one in Iowa, but it does roughly parallel the southwestern edge of the Drifltess Area, a region untouched by the most recent Ice Age about 25,000 years ago. Lots of hills and scenic views are found along this way, if you look toward the north; if looking south, you get the typical Iowa cornfield.

Route 136 begins in Clinton’s Lyons neighborhood. Lyons once was a separate city until the late 1890s, and has one of Clinton’s two downtown areas. Actually, my journey began in Fulton, where Illinois state route 136 is one of the shortest numbered highways in the state. The route, which also carries the historic Lincoln Highway, crosses the Mississippi River on the North Bridge, built in the mid-1970s to replace an older span a quarter-mile to the north.

The end of the route currently is in Dyersville, home to the Field of Dreams and the National Farm Toy Museum. The former end once went a few miles north, until superseded by U.S. Route 52. I visited the Field of Dreams in 2021 (as part of an Iowa/Nebraska/South Dakota trip; click HERE for my Facebook album). I will feature the Farm Toy Museum in a separate post at a later date.

I’m going to try something different with this presentation. I recently utilized Flickr as an online photo album, and bought its “Pro” package for unlimited storage.

Click here to begin seeing what I saw during my Route 136 adventure – descriptions are below each picture, and be sure to click on the right arrows on each picture to go to the next picture. Enjoy!