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Village · United States · Minnesota

# Afton

Go there

## Getting to Afton

**Airports:** Minneapolis–Saint Paul / Wold–Chamberlain Field (MSP), 35 km\

- Chicago → Afton 536 km · quickest by road, 7h 43m · $50–70 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/chicago-to-afton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chicago&to=Afton)
- Des Moines → Afton 80 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · $9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/des-moines-to-afton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Des+Moines&to=Afton)
- Milwaukee → Afton 107 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $10–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/milwaukee-to-afton) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Milwaukee&to=Afton)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Afton)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for Afton

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Afton. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,666 km
2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,896 km
3. [Port Townsend and the Olympic Peninsula](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/port-townsend) US 9 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,307 km
4. [Salt Spring Island and the Southern Gulf Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/salt-spring-island) CA 10 ways of moving, 15 sources 2,358 km
5. [Gibsons and the Sunshine Coast](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/gibsons) CA 10 ways of moving, 21 sources 2,359 km

If you know how people move in Afton – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cafton&title=Afton&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fafton), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Afton

Afton is 25 km from [Saint Paul](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saint-paul), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

- [Lake St. Croix Beach](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lake-st-croix-beach) city in Minnesota, United States 2.4 km

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