15 Best Small Towns in Iowa to Visit✨

[@timnewman1172]

Being from Iowa I have opinions about this... McGregor should be on this list, with Pikes Peak State Park being there... And no mention of the lakes? Okoboji and Spirit Lake are one of the biggest vacation areas of the state!

[@raloufen4292]

Why can't he pronounce words

[@joeahopelto8032]

Artificial ignorance. Aggravating ain't it?

[@Budman_4044]

Also Lake Rathbun in southern Iowa. I'm from southeast Iowa. Now living in Dubuque.

[@glennso47]

What about Sabula. Unique because it is on an island in the middle of the Mississippi River.

[@WadeVanderMolen]

I assume this is just 15 towns in no real order. Nobody would put Oskaloosa over Pella which is 16 miles away. The Osky Mall is a ghost town.

[@bigred4335]

I am currently In Maryland...I have been looking to move for a while and after seeing this list I will be looking at a few of these places as my new Home.....I am a simple man..Just want to work and relax..Peace and Blessings

[@vacationquesty]

Hearing that is very comforting. I'm glad you found the video useful. Let me know if you'd like me to create a video about places in Maryland! Peace and blessings.

[@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824]

My childhood friend from Des Moines now lives in Baltimore. I live an hour east of Des Moines, in a little town called Brooklyn. He was always into money and status; I couldn't care less. Brooklyn might be your speed.

[@bigred4335]

@@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824 Ok thanks my friend I will look into Brooklyn

[@bigred4335]

@@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824 I am trying to find videos of Brooklyn IA..A lot I see are old ones

[@oldskolacura9798]

If you are looking for a clean community and safe I recommend bettendorf. Keep in mind it's not cheap.

[@NaturalBornWitch1]

Decorah, Iowas is home to Luther College and also the brewery Toppling Goliath. Many neat places in Decorah!

[@renjon7798]

And the troll trails! I remember walking those in girl scouts and we had to stomp on the bridge 3 times before we could cross or the trolls would get mad and could steal our food.

[@mcnairtvmklindia]

Beautiful video 👍 Lovely from India ❤️

[@martina5923]

Thank you for this awesome video!

[@vacationquesty]

You're welcome!

[@donnaallen9863]

I have never heard of a BOWTEEK, but I have visited Booteeks

[@richardprice3070]

Washington, Iowa should make this list. 1) Has oldest continuously run movie theater in world, 2) Dodeci Italian restaurant is amazing both for food and atmosphere, 3) town Square is relaxing place.

[@phild8095]

There are so many great small towns with cool little parks, restaurants, architecture in Iowa. Places for hunting, fishing, rockhounding, little museums of quilts, hometown heroes, 19th century homesteads, one room schoolhouses, antiques from agricultural to manufacturing to cars, clocks, windmills, toys, the ballfield from the movie, oh, and the festivals, tulips, corn, hogs, soybeans, apples, octoberfest and that list goes on for pages. Last year we drove three hours to hunt for seashell and coral fossils in a small county park. It was a great day, met wonderful people, got home with a bucket of fossils. We've driven around sometimes just to see small towns hours away, there's always something to see, a trail to walk or bicycle, the little museum, the small town diner, an ice cream stand. Hey if we wanted to go to crowded concerts and come home with our ears ringing we could go to Des Moines or the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake.

[@aceckrot]

Small Iowa towns that didn't make the list but certainly could have include Clear Lake, Kalona, and Walnut. Many other small Iowa towns have something to offer as well.

[@Eyesorecrymore]

Penn central half empty. Always had been. Grinnell has waaaayyyy more city parks than Oskaloosa!

[@eyefills]

How come Clear Lake isn't on the list ? I can't believe it ? ? Would have loved to hear more info of Clear Lake Iowa. - Rick&Morgan

[@johnscheetz968]

I went to college in Iowa, got married there and that state is as nice as they say.

[@johnM-Jr]

6:58 this pucture looks nice setting. anyone tell me where that is? im probably going to move to Iowa since in retiring and would like to feel like im back in the 70's ❤ (on closer inspection, that appears to be another country. greece, india, ? , its the outro.)

[@Eyesorecrymore]

Well for once Grinnell actually made the list. My hometown. Of course it was mainly about the college and how rich it is. That being said they could have said said more about what it had to actually offer. College with less than 2000 students has its own radio station , observatory, Olympic pool, and 400 degrees. But you have to have an a+Gpa and a lot of money

[@SueMoe]

Is a "bow" tique a boutique for dogs? Bow wow!

[@vacationquesty]

It's a mispronunciation. 🙂

[@chrism5851]

I was born in okoboji I moved to NYC at 5 and been going to okoboji for summers sailing or working at the Ritz okoboji I moved back there at 16 then back and forth now I've been in NYC for last 20 years before that Seattle for 4 years I also lived in des Moines for 2 years all I can say is I love okoboji

[@EnglishWithKinh]

Good video

[@burtfiasco]

wait, why tf is Osky on this list? The creator of this list has obviously never smelled Oskaloosa, nor tried to cop for a fix there as an out of towner. Bush league stuff, blue... im disappointed.

[@Eyesorecrymore]

But my hometown Grinnell is rightly on here.

[@drewschumann1]

Osky is a straight up dump

[@TheArby13]

What river?

[@RC-bv7hw]

I guess number 8 is still a hidden gem...LOL

[@Eyesorecrymore]

Haha. Missed that the first time.

[@Gander319]

Great. Now it will drive me nuts wondering where number 8 was.

[@garyhull5617]

It's Garrison......#8.

[@johnablamsky5242]

algona should be on the list as well

[@GentlemanEDC]

Any input on Chariton, Corydon, centerville, or Leon?

[@musicroom7185]

I was born in Chariton!

[@nurahmad8556]

It will help to choose the best small towns to visit.

[@JoeDonFan]

Why is there a picture of the Washington Monument in Baltimore, MD, at 1:50?

[@Gander319]

Must be someone outside of the U.S. They probably Googled Mt Vernon which referenced George Washington.

[@jimroscovius]

Sioux City, IA, has a 100' obelisk memorial for Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only person to die on the Lewis and Clark expedition. He's buried there.

[@michaelfifita1254]

Le Mars, IA? Ice Cream capital of the world!

[@larryfisher5796]

I'm 80 years old I was born and raised in Iowa and here I'll die 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@alanquintus2069]

Garner Iowa pop. 3000 and a stoplight 😊

[@carywiesner769]

And FWIW, , many of these towns are also college towns, which is a big reason why they're so lively. Kalona, in Amish /Mennonite country southwest of Iowa City, is another pretty interesting Iowa small town.

[@vacationquesty]

If I create another video on Iowa, which from what I've seen since publishing this one, I probably will - I'm noting down Kalona to take a look.

[@oldskolacura9798]

Hmm they didn't mention Iowa city nor Ames . Your not from Iowa I take it.

[@Liljacermods]

I live right by orange city

[@connie7335]

Ok-I think I’ll go browse the bowtiks.

[@kenvandevoort7820]

I didn't know that Penny's reopened at the Penn Central Mall in Oskaloosa.

[@nathanieljacobs3151]

Hahaha

[@timnewman1172]

I was wondering if it was still there...

[@timnewman1172]

I used to love Wang's Chinese Kitchen uptown, but isn't it closed too?

[@kenvandevoort7820]

@@timnewman1172 Couldn't tell you. We moved from there in 2005 and I haven't been back there for 2 years.

[@gabriellam8604]

Terribly done, you talk about malls and not about the covered bridges of Winterset!! And learn to say boutiques correctly too.

[@vacationquesty]

Sorry you feel the video is terrible, but I do appreciate your honest opinion. This should help me create better videos in the long run. Last thing I want to do is misrepresent some of these beautiful places!

[@sixchuterhatesgoogle3824]

If you can do better, you should make your own video.

[@timnewman1172]

Not to be a hater, but you really should've mentioned the covered bridges...

[@timolson6168]

Iowa has some areas that are better then other areas but, those areas never get talked about which is sad .

[@MethanolWarrior712]

University of Okoboji

[@mohammedyounis8164]

Spencer IA

[@DivineFellowship]

The "sudden-swoosh" transitions are annoying, making this almost unwatchable. The narration gives itself away as robot-voice by pronouncing boutiques as BOW-tiques repeatedly.

[@GregImerman]

The best small town in Iowa, and the US, is Guthrie Center.

[@kate8612]

No Knoxville?

[@phild8095]

The home of the famous speedway and museum! I'll give "you gotta go there at least once"

[@davejarvis7522]

Really

[@johnhanks2930]

This person has obviously never spent time in an Iowa “bow”tique. Oskaloosa? Decorah is way better! Fort Madison has such an amazing historical past to explore given the importance of Iowa’s settlement. And as someone else mentioned, the lakes! We will not speak of the Mount Vernon photo atrocity. Finally, is that a photo of Korea at the end?

[@asyed1995]

Believe any part of the 🌏 Neighborhood with Kindness , helpful & to build a Neighborhood Credit unions on Non- interest base .thanks

[@AnaLucia-ic6mk]

Gostaria que fosse em PORTUGUÊS

[@donharrison706]

anyone doing this reading would be advised to find out first how these towns pronounce their own names. It's el KA der, named after a north African freedom fighter

[@donharrison706]

whether you're in the mood for a DELICIOUS meal, . . . Can you even read? Who doesn't accent meal when they say this?????

[@SlurpJ]

Stay away from Indianola it's basically des moines.

[@donharrison706]

It's not GRINell, but griNELL, with the accent on the final syllable

[@Saphy_Bagel]

Bowtiques? Trying a little hard there. 😂

[@oldlefty1267]

Say bow tique again...

[@AbramDeyoung-n4i]

Weber Port

[@donnanichols5371]

That is NOT Mount Vernon.

[@joansuchomel8080]

Whoever created this video should have taken the time to do it right. Some of the photos that are supposedly of my home town bear no resemblance to what is actually there. And maybe someone should learn how to pronounce the names for the towns. I can only imagine how many mistakes there are in the rest of the video.

[@PatrickBoberg]

This list is hilaroius. Decorah that low on the list is a joke. Spend a day in Indianola and you'll be wondering real quick how it even makes this list.

[@vacationquesty]

Yeah I realized by now it's not perfect. I did the best at the time. I stopped making vids because I realised I needed to learn and explore more.

[@PatrickBoberg]

@@vacationquesty sorry to come off like a hater. These lists are certainly subjective, but I've been to all of these towns and have major opinions. Oskaloosa... 🤔🤔🤔

[@timnewman1172]

I never left anything in Orange City I needed to go back for...

[@phild8095]

Indianola, the fishing ain't bad. The balloons. And the paving of K street. And the new traffic light!

[@melfisher1683]

This list is bullshit. Most of these places I go out of my way to avoid.

[@MH-fb5kr]

You mad bro?

[@drewschumann1]

​@@MH-fb5kr No, just informed

[@tomfields3682]

Yes, these videos should be all about *YOU*! 😅😅

[@countkilroygraf8816]

You will never meet more stuck up, snobby people than you will in Pella.

[@brandonfrank3906]

You need to attend English class

[@kinawood7454]

Good Lord, this is a horrible list. I agree with about 3 of them. The rest are a snoozefest.

[@HeatherPaar-z4t]

I can tell you right now Lost Nation and Maquoketa suck