2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 306D - SCENIC ROUTES
306D.1 - STATEMENT OF PURPOSE -- INTENT.

        306D.1  STATEMENT OF PURPOSE -- INTENT.
         1.  The general assembly finds that:
         a.  The state offers numerous regions through which people can
      drive for the pleasure of viewing unusually scenic and interesting
      landscapes; however, routes to and through these areas have not been
      adequately identified for Iowans and state visitors.
         b.  Among those things that attract motorists to the state's
      landscape are agricultural lands, forests, river basins, distinctive
      landforms, interesting architecture, metropolitan areas, small rural
      towns, and historic sites.
         c.  The landscape qualities of unusually scenic routes
      throughout the state have not been protected from visual and resource
      deterioration particularly along routes which pass near the state's
      nationally significant areas such as the bluffs of the Mississippi
      and Missouri rivers, the Amana colonies, the Herbert Hoover national
      historic site, federal reservoirs, communities surrounding the
      state's natural lakes, the Des Moines river greenbelt, the great
      river road, and many others.
         d.  A principal goal of economic development in this state is
      to increase the influence which travel and tourism have on the
      state's economic expansion.
         e.  Iowans and visitors should be encouraged to travel to and
      through unusually scenic areas of the state.
         f.  A program should be established, following a statewide
      plan, to identify and promote highways and secondary routes which
      pass through unusually scenic landscapes and to protect and enhance
      the scenic qualities of the landscape through which these routes
      pass.
         2.  In addition to other goals for the program, it is the
      intention of the general assembly that the scenic highways program be
      coordinated with the state's open space program.{ 

         87 Acts, ch 175, §1
         Referred to in § 306D.2
         {Open space program, chapter 465A