Country Inn & Suites By Carlson Fort Dodge

3259 Fifth Avenue South , Fort Dodge IA 50501

Reservations: (888) 201-1746 US Toll Free

Telephone: (515) 955-2259 Fax: (515) 576-4391

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The Country Inn & Suites, Fort Dodge is located on 5th Avenue South. Take US Highway 20 to exit 124. Follow North to Business 20, go West one mile to hotel.

We are located in the heart of the Fort Dodge shopping & restaurant district. Just 4 minutes away from Gypsum City OHV Park, we also are the hotel in closest proximity to the newest motorcross and ATV trails in the Midwest.

Other areas of interest & near our Fort Dodge hotel include:

Blanden Art Museum
Harlan Rogers Sports Complex
Fort Museum & Trading Post
Mineral City Raceway
Fort 8 Theatre
Iowa Central Community College
Brushy Creek State Recreation Area
Dolliver State Park
Des Moines River
Kennedy Park
Community Orchard

We are conveniently located near several major businesses as well, including:

Silgan Container MFG (0.5 miles)
Nestle-Purina (0.5 miles)
Land 'O Lakes (0.5 miles)
United States Gypsum (1 mile)
Georgia Pacific (1 mile)
CertainTeed (0.5 miles)
National Gypsum (3 miles)
Fort Dodge Animal Heath (5 miles)
Trimark (2 miles)
Koch Nitrogen (7 miles)
Fort Dodge Regional Airport, with daily flight to Minneapolis (1.5 miles)
Des Moines International Airport (90 miles)

Special events that take place near the Fort Dodge hotel include:

Frontier Days (June)
Couch Freak Dollar Daze Boogie (Labor Day Weekend)
Dayton Rodeo (Labor Day Weekend)
Iowa Central Community College sporting & cultural events (year-round)
Fall Fest (September)
Apple Fest (October)

Fort Dodge, located on the Des Moines River in north-central Iowa, feels smaller than its 25,000 population warrants. A wilderness fort Fort Dodge was built on the site in 1850, and twenty years later the fledgling settlement cashed in when gypsum mines were opened to tap the area's abundant resources. In fact, Fort Dodge is still known as "The Gypsum City." Like their frontier forebears, Fort Dodge's 25,000 residents embrace an active, vigorous lifestyle the area boasts over 900 acres of public parks. Organized municipal volleyball, baseball, basketball and tennis teams are popular diversions for adults as well as children. Some of the parks offer overnight camping in rustic cabins or tents. A skateboard park, a Frisbee golf course, a butterfly garden and a model airplane field are some of the city's more unique offerings. Almost every park in the system has a nature trail or a walking trail, and joggers, bikers, inline skaters and cross-country skiers are common sights. Not all of Fort Dodge's attractions are land-based; the Des Moines River is the perfect place to fish, canoe and swim.

Though the "Gypsum City" might seem an unlikely place for it, Fort Dodge is the location of Iowa's first permanent art museum, established in 1930. The Blanden Memorial Art Museum's collection includes works from the European masters, as well as modern Asian and South American art. The Blanden is a cultural destination for much of north-central Iowa thanks to the wide array of art classes, lectures, film festivals and special exhibits staged here.

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