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Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation

Buena Vista, Clay, Dickinson and Emmet Counties

 






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Transportation

A company's roadmap to success is sure to be enhanced with the Corridor's prime Midwest location and our ability to reduce supply and distribution costs.  We are at the heart of an eight state market of 926,182 businesses and 35.3 million people with a total of over $901.7 billion in personal income.

Highway 71 travels north and south, and highways 9 and 18 journey east and west providing easy access to any place in the Corridor.  Interstate 90 is minutes north on Highway 71 and Interstate 29 is located approximately 1 hour west on Highway 18.

DISTANCE TO MAJOR MIDWEST MARKETS

CITY

DAYS BY

MOTOR FREIGHT

DISTANCE

IN MILES

Minneapolis

1

220

Chicago

1

420

St. Louis

1

529

Kansas City

1

318

Des Moines

1

187

Omaha

1

172

 

 

The Corridor is served by a variety of common carriers, providing interstate, intrastate, and local freight services.  Among these are heavy and lightweight haulers, liquid or dry bulk, oversized, and other specialty haulers.  In addition to these common carriers, Spencer is home to a regional hub for UPS and is served by all major parcel carriers.  Rail service is provided by Union Pacific, Canadian National and the Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad.  Click for an Iowa Railroad Map

 

The Northwest Iowa Regional Airport is located in Spencer.  Runway 12-30 is 100' x 6000'.  Runway 18-36 is 75' x 5000'.  Both runways are concrete grooved and are lit by remote 3 intensity lighting system.  Private aircraft from ultra lights to high performance jets use the airport.  There is an ILS on Runway 12. The facility is at an elevation of 1339 feet at a distance of about 3 miles from Spencer.  This is a full service regional airport.  Air taxi service and charter service is available through the Fixed Base Operator, Leading Edge Aviation.  Estherville, Milford, Spirit Lake and Storm Lake also operate municipal airports.   Two commercial airports with cargo air facilities are located within 90 minutes or less of the region (Sioux City and Sioux Falls).



1900 Grand Avenue North, Suite E12 | Spencer, Iowa 51301 | 712-264-3474 | 800-765-1428 | Fax: 712-580-3472