Ontario, Iowa
Ontario is a community within the corporate limits of the city of Ames, in Story County, Iowa, United States.
Ontario is a community within the corporate limits of the city of Ames, in Story County, Iowa, United States.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Ontario, Iowa
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Iowa State University
The Iowa State University of Science and Technology, also referred to as Iowa State University, is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the nation's first designated land-grant institutions when the Iowa Legislature accepted the provisions of the 1862 Morrill Act on September 11, 1862.
2.9 km · public research university in Ames, Iowa, United States · Wikipedia - 02Clyde Williams Field
Clyde Williams Field was an outdoor stadium on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. It was the home of the Iowa State Cyclones football and track and field teams.
2.7 km · Outdoor stadium at Iowa State University · Wikipedia - 03Food Sciences Building
The Food Sciences Building, formerly known as Dairy Industry Building, is a historic building on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, United States. The two-story, Bedford stone structure was designed by the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Rawson & Souers.
3.4 km · historic building on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, United States · Wikipedia - 04Beardshear Hall
Beardshear Hall is an administration building at Iowa State University located on Morrill Road. The building was designed by Proudfoot & Bird Architects and constructed in 1906.
3 km · building at Iowa State University · Wikipedia - 05Catt Hall
Carrie Chapman Catt Hall is an administrative building completed in 1892, at Iowa State University which currently houses the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and the Carrie Chapman Center for Women and Politics. The building is named for Carrie Chapman Catt, an American women's rights activist and founder of the League of Women Voters.
3.1 km · building on Iowa State University's campus, U.S. · Wikipedia - 06Enrollment Services Center
The Enrollment Services Center is a building at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. It houses the Office of Admissions and the Office of the Registrar.
3 km · building in Iowa State University; Ames, Iowa · Wikipedia - 07Morrill Hall
Morrill Hall, on the campus of Iowa State University, is a historic building that now houses the Christian Petersen Art Museum. It was named for Justin Smith Morrill, who created the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.
3 km · building on the campus of Iowa State University · Wikipedia - 08The Farm House
The Farm House, also known as the Knapp–Wilson House, is the oldest building on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Now a museum open to the general public, this house was originally built in 1860 as part of the model farm aspect of Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm.
3.3 km · historic house in Iowa, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ontario, Iowa
- Airports
- Des Moines (DSM), 56 km · Eppley Airfield (OMA), 201 km
- Des Moines → Ontario, Iowa49 km · quickest by road, 53 min · $5–7
- Omaha → Ontario, Iowa207 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · $21–29
- Kansas City → Ontario, Iowa335 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $29–40
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ontario, Iowa
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 Ontario, Iowa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIt is possible to cross by seasonal ferry to the Thousand Islands (Cape Vincent, New York to Wolfe Island, Ontario) with a bicycle; crossing on foot there makes little sense due to the rural distances involved.
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