Iowa D-N-R May Sell Honey Creek Resort

(Des Moines, IA) — The Iowa D-N-R is going to consider selling the Honey Creek Resort near Moravia. D-N-R director Kayla Lyon told the Natural Resources Commission the contract with the management company is expiring — and the next step in the process is to get an appraisal. Lyon says the goal is to sell the property. The current management contract for Honey Creek expires in April of 2023. The resort sits on the shore of Lake Rathbun and opened in 2008 at a cost of around 60 million dollars. It lost money it its early days and the state paid off the debt owed on the resort in 2013 after the then D-N-R director said the revenue coming in was not enough to pay the debt.