Central College
Pella, IA · Liberal arts college
14 minwalk to the closest stay
6stays inside a 20-min walk
7stays inside a 10-min drive
Campus visits, state by state
Hotels near colleges in Iowa
10 campuses144 places to stay measured
10campusesin IA
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By the numbers
10 schools in Iowa are on this site, with 144 places to stay measured around them. At 4 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 7 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 1 minute, at Iowa State University.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
Every school we cover in Iowa
10 schools in Iowa, in A to Z order
Coe College
Cedar Rapids, IA · Liberal arts college
19 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveCornell College
Mount Vernon, IA · Liberal arts college
6 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 10-min driveDivine Word College
Epworth, IA · Liberal arts college
17 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min driveGrinnell College
Grinnell, IA · Liberal arts college
3 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk3stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Iowa
Iowa City, IA · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay16stays inside a 20-min walk36stays inside a 10-min driveIowa State University
Ames, IA · Public university
1 minwalk to the closest stay10stays inside a 20-min walk20stays inside a 10-min driveLuther College
Decorah, IA · Liberal arts college
7 mindrive to the closest stay5stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, IA · Public university
8 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveWartburg College
Waverly, IA · Liberal arts college
16 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk4stays inside a 10-min drive
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About these lists
Which colleges in Iowa do you cover?
10 four-year schools in Iowa: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Iowa?
At 7 of the 10, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 9 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.