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Des Moines & Central
Des Moines brings public art and city gardens, Ames adds campus collections, and Pella shares Dutch heritage.
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Des Moines & Central, a little closer.
Des Moines brings public art and city gardens, Ames adds campus collections, and Pella shares Dutch heritage. Plan each as its own stop and make space for a local meal along the way.
Highlighted counties locate these featured towns. These six WTDO discovery areas are editorial groupings. Markers indicate approximate town centers, not entrances or driving routes. Select a town to open its guide. County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau.
Three places to begin.
Choose a local stop, then find food and a place to stay.
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Photo credits & visitor sources
Real Iowa photographs. Photo dates vary; images illustrate places, not current weather or operating conditions.
- Skyline downtown Des Moines.jpg — BarbaraLN. Flickr : Skyline CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Campanile, Iowa State University 2011.JPG — Adam Guenther. Own work CC BY-SA 3.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
- Vermeer Mill in Pella, Iowa.jpg — Paul VanDerWerf. https://www.flickr.com/photos/pavdw/5755398109/ CC BY 2.0. Resized and converted to WebP; displayed crops may vary.
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County outlines: U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb, Iowa FIPS19. Six WTDO areas are editorial discovery groupings.