Discover Your Home

The Cedar Valley is an affordable six-county area with diverse college and university cities, trendy historic downtowns and idyllic small towns where grain elevators are the tallest buildings for miles.

Outdoors

Whether you’re an outdoor adventure junkie or just need to take a break from technology, you’ll find plenty of options for enjoying the Cedar Valley outside of your usual four walls.

 

Cedar Valley Community Calendar

See what recreational opportunities there are in the Cedar Valley.

Arts

If music and art take you to your happy place—whether you enjoy expressing your own or appreciate someone else’s, you’ll find plenty to smile about in the Cedar Valley Region.

 

Food Culture

If you’ve lusted after Iowa’s mammoth-size breaded pork tenderloins, drooled over butter-drippin’ fresh sweet corn, or dream about Thai, Chinese, or Italian cuisine, you can experience these throughout the region.

 

Nightlife

From outdoor concerts, festivals, microbrewers, casual music, dancing or relaxing with close friends at a neighborhood establishment…we have it all in the Cedar Valley of Iowa.

 

Find Your Home

From affordable starter homes to extravagant dream homes, the Cedar Valley has what you’re searching for!

Athletics

There are not many places where you can enjoy a robust sports scene while being outside the noise and commotion of a major metropolitan area. The Cedar Valley offers collegiate and semi-pro teams of all types. For those who want to be active themselves, the Cedar Valley has one of the most active bicycle and running clubs around because of the extensive trail systems throughout the metro and rural communities.

 

Family Activities

In the Cedar Valley, it’s a question of which memories you will make this weekend. Year-round activity makes it hard for families to pick from annual holiday train and horse drawn rides, snowshoeing, one of the best-rated water parks in the nation, festivals, robust fireworks, and family-friendly bike trails to name a few.

 

Did you know the Cedar Valley is 13.3% more affordable than the national average?!

Why Live the Valley?

Live the Valley exists to help you discover the Cedar Valley as an incredible place to live and work. The incredible people, great places, and amazing experiences in our region all contribute to a wonderful quality of life at a low cost of living. We're here to help you find everything you need to make the Cedar Valley your next place to live and work. Join us and spend more time living!