North Central Iowa

North Central Iowa is in the Midwest of the United States of America.

Understand
This largely rural region includes the counties of Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth, Mitchell, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Humboldt, Wright, Franklin, Butler, Calhoun, Webster, Hamilton, Hardin, and Grundy. The most populated areas are Mason City in Cerro Gordo County and Fort Dodge in Webster County.

Get in
Although there are airports, most people get here by car. Interstate 35 runs through the center of this region, leading south to the state capital city of Des Moines in Central Iowa and north to Minnesota. US highway 20 runs along the lower edge of this region, connecting the region to Sioux City in the west and Waterloo and Dubuque in the east.

See

 * Nashua. The "Little Brown Church in the Vale" of 19th-century hymn fame is found in the ghost town of Bradford, along the highway across the Cedar River to the east of Nashua. It is attracts large numbers of weddings because of its quaint setting.