Last week’s contest was won by worf. It was the home of the Toledo Mud Hens.
This week’s is a random location somewhere in the state of Iowa, good luck!
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[…] Last week’s contest was won by Buck T. Trend. It was Carter Lake, IA, an odd section of the state that’s actually west of the Missouri River, surrounded by Omaha. […]
That is an Iowa welcome sign. It appears to me that Here’s street view car only crossed the Iowa state line once – I-480 at Omaha/Council Bluffs, but I could not find this sign there.
So, time to think outside of the box. In my recent travels of Iowa, I seem to remember seeing a few of these mounted at various city borders. Lee’s clue cuts off a green sign mounted just below the welcome sign, which could be a city limits sign.
I also considered places like the Des Moines airport, state capitol, and the state fairgrounds, but I came up empty.
In any case, I’m out of time to find it today. Good luck to the rest of you.
@1 I think you’re onto something. That’s a city boulevard, not an interstate highway. With a golf course off to the left, and what looks like a subdivision in the far distance on the right.
That’s the border between Omaha, NE and Carter Lake, IA, specifically along Abbott Drive on the way to/from Eppley Airfield. Carter Lake is a weird piece of Iowa that’s on the west (Nebraska) side of the Missouri River, thanks to a change in the river’s flow.
(And technically, that’s not some random place in IOWA, as the photo was taken on the Nebraska side of the border.)
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That’s it! And I was very careful to make sure the view is in Iowa based on the map. The sign itself is not directly on the border, it’s inside Iowa by a few hundred yards.