Driving Over Coralville Dam & Exploring the Massive Spillway! (360° VR Tour)

Hop in the passenger seat and get ready for a unique dual-perspective look at an engineering marvel in eastern Iowa! Today on The All-Around Adventurer, we are taking an immersive 360-degree trip across the massive Coralville Dam and getting a front-row view of its famous Emergency Spillway.

Because this is a full 360° VR video, you are in the driver's seat of the camera. Swipe your phone screen, drag your mouse on your desktop, or put on a VR headset to look all around at the sprawling reservoir on one side and the Iowa River Valley on the other!

🗺️ What’s Happening in This Video:
🚗 The Dam Crossing: Experience a 360° point-of-view drive directly over the 1,400-foot-long earthen embankment dam, standing 100 feet above the riverbed.

🌊 The Emergency Spillway: We get out to capture the massive 500-foot-wide concrete emergency spillway channel. Built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1958, this structure is designed to safeguard the entire river valley during historic flood events.

📜 A Flood of History: Take a look down past the spillway! During the historic Midwest floods of 1993 and 2008, raging waters overtopped this exact spillway, tearing away 15 feet of topsoil and uncovering the 375-million-year-old ocean floor now known as the Devonian Fossil Gorge right next door.
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