Urbandale

Worth seeing in and around Urbandale

4 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.

1. 01
   Buccaneer Arena

   Buccaneer Arena is a defunct multi-purpose arena in Urbandale, Iowa. It was home to the Des Moines Buccaneers ice hockey team in the United States Hockey League from 1980 to 2024.

   1.3 km · arena in Urbandale, Iowa · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Merle Hay Mall

   Merle Hay Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall in Des Moines, Iowa, in the United States. Opened in 1959, it is the second oldest regional shopping center in Iowa, and was the largest mall in Iowa in terms of gross leasable area before the 2004 opening of Jordan Creek Town Center in neighboring West Des Moines.

   1.1 km · shopping mall in Iowa, United States · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Allen Hazen Water Tower

   The Allen Hazen Water Tower, also known as the Municipal Water Tower, is a historic structure located on the west side of Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

   3.8 km · water tower in Des Moines, Iowa · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Olmsted Family Farmhouse

   The Olmsted Family Farmhouse, also known as the Olmsted-Urban House, is an historic building located in Urbandale, Iowa, United States. Leander and Charlotte Olmsted from Auburn, New York acquired 80 acres of land in Polk County, Iowa in 1867.

   800 m · historic building located in Urbandale, Iowa, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Urbandale

Airports

Des Moines (DSM), 11 km · Eppley Airfield (OMA), 185 km · Kansas City (MCI), 272 km

• Omaha → Urbandale

  190 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · $17–23
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• Kansas City → Urbandale

  290 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · $24–34
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• Chicago → Urbandale

  504 km · quickest by air, 5h 8m · $200–300
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No local-transport research exists yet for Urbandale

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 Urbandale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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