Colfax: Rest Area: I-35 NB MM 33 near Osceola - Truck Parking 1
Interstate 35 at mile 33 in Warren County is best known within Iowa for forming part of the state’s principal north–south highway corridor. South of the Des Moines metropolitan area, the route crosses central Iowa’s rolling agricultural country, where cultivated fields, grass verges and wooded strips share the terrain. A southbound roadside facility includes paved pull-through bays for heavy vehicles, reflecting I-35’s role in long-distance freight movement between major Midwestern cities. The route belongs to the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, established under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. This is central Iowa in its practical form: broad carriageways, working farmland and a low horizon edged by trees.
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The landscape around Colfax is gently rolling farmland on central Iowa’s prairie, which has shaped both the town’s compact form and its agricultural economy. The South Skunk River runs through this part of Jasper County, placing Colfax in the wider Des Moines River watershed. Interstate 80 passes just south of town, linking it with Des Moines and communities across Iowa. Mineral springs gave Colfax a notable role in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when it developed as a regional health resort for visitors seeking therapeutic waters. Today, local services, schools and surrounding farms set the pace in this small central-Iowa community. View additional webcams nearby to better understand how Colfax relates to central Iowa’s farm country.
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