One day in Des Moines, Iowa

A day through Des Moines’s best-known sights that lie close together: Pappajohn Sculpture Park, St. Ambrose Cathedral and Des Moines Botanical Center. 3 stops, about 1.4 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Pappajohn Sculpture ParkMuseum · On the map
  2. St. Ambrose CathedralCathedral · 0.6 mi on from Pappajohn Sculpture Park · On the map
  3. Des Moines Botanical CenterGarden · 0.8 mi on from St. Ambrose Cathedral · On the map

3 stops, 1.8 mi on foot along the streets: about 35 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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