Isle Casino Source: Virrage Images / shutterstock Casino Many of the exhibits have subtle Quad Cities theming, and there’s a maker space and art room to spark their creativity.ĥ.

There’s an amazing water-play table that is actually a scale model of a stretch of the Mississippi, and a play area geared towards littler children replicating a domestic environment, including a garden and virtual pond. Here kids can roleplay professions like a vet, firefighter, or mail carrier, or help out on a farm, picking vegetables and feeding animals. Family Museum Source: Farragutful / Wikimedia | CC BY-SA 3.0 Family Museumĭesigned for children eight and younger, Bettendorf’s Family Museum is a wonderland of experiential exhibits that combine learning and fun.

That dock is right in front of the Isle Casino, which started out as one of the first modern-day riverboat casinos in the 1990s, but moved to dry land with a contemporary redesign in 2016. There’s a trail along the waterfront delivering you to downtown Davenport, while Bettendorf has a landing for the Channel Cat Water Taxi, which serves both sides of the river in summer. On this stretch, the Mississippi flows east to west, and Bettendorf has a lot of ways to enjoy that great river. The third-largest and fastest-growing city in the Quad Cities sits opposite Moline and east of Davenport, moments from the area’s best attractions and entertainment venues.

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