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# Ontario, Iowa

Ontario is a community within the corporate limits of the city of Ames, in Story County, Iowa, United States.

[Plan a trip to Ontario, Iowa](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ontario%2C%20Iowa) [From Des Moines](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Des+Moines&to=Ontario%2C+Iowa)

## Every way there

- Des Moines → Ontario, Iowa 49 km · quickest by road, 53 min · $5–7 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/des-moines-to-ontario-iowa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Des+Moines&to=Ontario%2C+Iowa)
- Omaha → Ontario, Iowa 207 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · $21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omaha-to-ontario-iowa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omaha&to=Ontario%2C+Iowa)
- Kansas City → Ontario, Iowa 335 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $29–40 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/kansas-city-to-ontario-iowa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Kansas+City&to=Ontario%2C+Iowa)

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

The field note

What is in and around Ontario, Iowa, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Ontario, Iowa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ontario-iowa)

What Ontario, Iowa has

- Y Scheduled flights Des Moines (DSM), 56 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

42.036°, -93.682°

How locals move

## Getting around Ontario, Iowa the local way

- Get in It 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.

From [Wikivoyage: Ontario](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Ontario), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%2C_Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.


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