City in Iowa, United States

West Des Moines

West Des Moines is a city in Iowa, United States.

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Every way there

Omaha → West Des Moines
189 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $17–23
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Kansas City → West Des Moines
285 km · quickest by road, 4h 19m · $24–33
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Chicago → West Des Moines
504 km · quickest by air, 4h 55m · $190–290
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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.

The field note

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

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What West Des Moines has

YScheduled flightsDes Moines (DSM), 11 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

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

41.509°, -93.781°

Most of the city is in Polk County, some of it is in Dallas County, and small portions extend into Warren and Madison Counties.

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