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American Gothic House Center
Historical place museum
The wooden house depicted in the namesake Grant Wood painting is now a museum & cultural center.
4.60 (741 reviews)
(~0.74 km from centre)
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Waterworks Park
Park
👍👍 This is a great place to take your family and friends. There is a roped off swim area, and several swim buoys farther out. A nice play area is on the premises for the kiddos and the water is nice and warm when we went. There is also a semi clean bathroom there too. Took the kayaks out one time and...
4.50 (220 reviews)
(~25.21 km from centre)
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Central Park
City park
👍👍 Beautiful day, first time and probably the only time I will ever be there. My parents went to school near the area and I wanted to get some pictures to show them when I got home. Beautiful place!
4.50 (213 reviews)
(~23.88 km from centre)
4
Chautauqua Park
Park
👍👍 Love this park for my walks. Very beautiful.
4.50 (191 reviews)
(~25.2 km from centre)
6
O B Nelson Park
Park
👍 I went to the dog park there. They only have one bench for people to sit in. They need more and especially in the park for the little dogs there's nothing there for anyone to sit on. Why is this?
4.40 (199 reviews)
(~23.09 km from centre)
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War Memorial Park
Park
👍👍 Great place to camp. Lots of walking and biking trails close by and close to all kinds of shopping. There are showers and hook ups for water and electric.
4.40 (149 reviews)
(~20.33 km from centre)
10
Ottumwa City Campground
Campground
👍👍 Nice camp ground and they gotta car show going on today.
4.20 (208 reviews)
(~20.27 km from centre)
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Pioneer Ridge
Nature preserve
👍👍 This place is Gorgeous!!
Our friends reserved the hay barn for their wedding, and we were out there all day long enjoying the scenery and paved trails throughout the park.
Very very beautiful place to visit or camp!
My eldest son came out here 5 years ago when he was at summer safari at the ymca in...
4.60 (74 reviews)
(~15.86 km from centre)
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Central Park
Park
👍👍 Ottumwa does a great job lighting up downtown for the holidays. Walking through the beautiful arrangement of sponsored Christmas trees, dedicated to loved ones, left me appreciative of the true meaning of Christmas.
As much as I've seen this city age over the years, the heart of the city was/is dow...
4.60 (58 reviews)
(~19.48 km from centre)
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Rock Island Train Depot
Historical place museum
👍👍 Great little Rock Island gem. The volunteer working was awesome and made the visit even better. And you can sound the whistle on a real locomotive!
4.60 (57 reviews)
(~0.11 km from centre)
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Beach Ottumwa
Water park
👍👍 My 10-yr-old & 7-yr-old thoroughly enjoyed the slides and wave pool. They were only sad that there were not enough tubes to rent because they're fun to use in the wave pool. The staff was friendly and helpful.
4.10 (134 reviews)
(~19.74 km from centre)
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Garrison Rock Resource Management Unit
Nature preserve
👍👍 I used to live right below it, before it was open to the public. Today we went to the cemetery,both caves and the old chimney took our hammock and 2 dogs. After our journey we set up the hammock and relaxed with the nature. Only bad thing was people need to have more respect with taking there garbag...
4.40 (63 reviews)
(~13.83 km from centre)
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Jefferson County Park
Park
👍 Really nice place for walking biking and enjoying the nature. I found many families camping over their in campers.
Green, tall and awesome trees.
Even the restrooms are clean and well prepared.
4.80 (36 reviews)
(~21.44 km from centre)
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Mars Hill Church
Non-denominational church
🫤 Very upset with how the graveyard looked kicked over headstones missing headstones headstones broken and Scattered very upsetting to know that my family is buried there and your caretaker can't take care of the property like he should how about replacing the headstones that are missing and fixing th...
4.60 (42 reviews)
(~11.58 km from centre)
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Foster Park
Park
👍👍 Nice, quiet, neighborhood park. I saw several deer browsing in the ravine. Very relaxing.
4.30 (62 reviews)
(~16.62 km from centre)