Ottumwa

Ottumwa is a city in South Central Iowa.

Understand

Get in

By car

Ottumwa is at the junction of US Highways 34 and 63.

By train

• 🌍 Amtrak, 210 W Main St. Ottumwa is a stop on the California Zephyr, a line running from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area. 

By bus

Buses stop at the Amtrak station at 210 West Main St.

• Trailways ([phone])
• Greyhound Bus Lines ([phone])

Get around

By bus

Ottumwa Transit runs Monday through Friday from 6:46AM until 6PM. Fare is $1.50.

See

• 🌍 Wapello County Courthouse, 101 N 4th St (at Court St). Constructed in 1894 in the Romanesque Revival style. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. 

Do

Buy

Eat

• 🌍 Canteen Lunch in the Alley, 112 E 2nd St (in the back alley parallel to 2nd and Main Sts, perpendicular to Court and Market Sts), ☎ [phone]. M-W 10AM-7PM, Th-Sa 10AM-8PM. The Canteen has been around since the 1930s and is known for their loose-meat sandwiches. The restaurant was the model for the Lanford Lunch Box on the 1990s sitcom Roseanne. 

Drink

Sleep

• 🌍 Fairfield Inn, 2813 N Court Rd (at Rochester St), ☎ [phone], toll-free: [phone], fax: [phone]. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: 12PM. 
• 🌍 Days Inn, 2824 N Court Rd (between Rochester and Fox Sauk Rds), ☎ [phone], fax: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: 11AM. 
• 🌍 AmericInn, 222 W 2nd St (between Marion and Washington Sts), ☎ [phone], fax: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: 11AM. 
• 🌍 Hampton Inn, 943 N Quincy Ave (across from Quincy Place Mall), ☎ [phone], fax: [phone]. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: noon. 
• 🌍 Quality Inn & Suites, 125 Joseph Ave (at Court Rd), ☎ [phone], fax: [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]. Check-in: 3PM, check-out: 11AM. 

Connect

Go next

Routes through Ottumwa

Omaha ← Osceola ←	W  E	→ Burlington → Chicago
Osceola ← Albia ←	W  E	→ Fairfield → Burlington
Waterloo ← Jct W E ← Jct W ←	N  S	→ Kirksville → Columbia