Iowa State Fair parking is easy when you take a DART Park & Ride shuttle to the fair in 2025. 

DART operates shuttle services from three Park & Ride locations during the Iowa State Fair. By riding Park & Ride shuttles, fair-goers enjoy their trips to the Iowa State Fairgrounds without worrying about traffic or paying for parking.

You can park for free in parking lots specified at each location, purchase a ticket, and then board buses headed to Gate 10 of the State Fairgrounds.

This fall, we are partnering with ETC Institute to measure customer satisfaction.

Survey for DART riders

We want to feedback from riders regarding your experience using DART and how well our service meets your needs.  Your feedback will help us make improvements and provide the best service possible.

Beginning Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, the cost to ride DART On Demand is changing, and riders will have more options for how they pay their fare. When DART started service on DART On Demand in Ankeny, replacing the former On Call service for the community, a promotional price of $1 per ride was set. Now, nearly one year after beginning service, the promotional fare price is ending, and single trips on the service for full-fare riders will increase to $1.75 per ride, the same price as DART’s other Fixed Route services.

The DART website could be inaccessible for a few minutes after 7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29 because of needed maintenance to the site.

This outage will not impact real-time schedule data through the MyDART app or MyDART text or any of DART's phone lines.

Any changes to this planned outage will be shared through this webpage.

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our riders and thank you in advance for your patience during this short outage.

Just in time for the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, funding from a Principal Foundation grant will provide free rides to and from school for most students at North High School and Harding Middle School in the Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) District. As of Aug. 24, students at North and Harding who previously did not qualify for free DART transit to and from school will be able to use their student ID to ride DART any time of day.