Encyclopedia Dubuque
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MILLER RIVERVIEW PARK
MILLER RIVERVIEW PARK. Established in 1986, the twenty-acre park on CHAPLAIN SCHMITT ISLAND has 98 sites with electricity and primitive camping for approximately forty tents. For many years, the Dubuque County Conservation Society had managed the park with the help of Jack and Mary Miller, caretakers. The City of Dubuque let the lease to the conservation society lapse in 1986 but kept the Millers as caretakers. Bathrooms, upgraded electrical facilities, paving, a playground and other improvements have been made.
Use of the park in 2010 was approximately ten times what it had been thirty years before. In 2010 there were approximately five thousand overnight stays annually.