Traveling to Keokuk?
Travel the Great River Road, the best scenic drive in America. It follows the course of the Mississippi River for 3000 miles throughout 10 states. The George M. Verity Riverboat Museum in Keokuk is 1 of 16 interpretive centers along the Great River Road in Iowa.
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Nauvoo, with its amazing storied past is 14 miles from Keokuk, on IL Hwy 96 North.
Historical Fort Madison, Iowa, also in Lee County, is 20 miles north of Keokuk on US Hwy 61.
In the next county over, the quaint, rustic villages of Van Buren County begin 30 miles from Keokuk, northwest on IA Hwy 2.