936 people · Fewer than 5,000 people · Van Buren County, IA
Two weeknights reserved for a Keosauqua riverfront hotel stay
from $2002 weeknights, room for twofrom $100 per personA Keosauqua riverfront hotel stay puts two people in a historic hotel on the Des Moines River for two weeknights, from $100 per person. Keosauqua counted 936 residents in the 2020 census, the smallest town on our list, while Florissant, where the office sits, counted 52,533. That works out to about 56 Florissant residents for every person in this county seat, and the quiet shows the moment you park.
Keosauqua inside a Des Moines River bend
The Des Moines River loops around Keosauqua in a horseshoe bend, and the town sits inside the curve. Hardwood bluffs line the valley, and in October they turn color from the river's edge to the ridgeline. The Van Buren County Courthouse, built in the 1840s, is still in use for county business.
Across the river, a state park sits on the wooded bluffs, with a lake and stone shelters built in the 1930s. A few miles downstream, Bentonsport and Bonaparte keep their 19th-century brick along the river, and a slow drive between the two villages makes an easy afternoon.
| People in the town, 2020 census | 936 |
|---|---|
| People in Florissant, 2020 census | 52,533 |
| Compared with the office's town | about 56 times fewer people than Florissant |
| Census place | Keosauqua city, Iowa |
| County | Van Buren County, Iowa |
| Road from the office | 203 miles, about 4 h 14 min |
| Nights in the quote | 2 |
| Check-in and checkout | 3:00 PM / 11:00 AM, as listed; the quote confirms |
Verandas facing the river in Keosauqua
The office reserves a room in a long steamboat-style hotel on the riverfront, with two tiers of white verandas facing the water. The room we quote is a queen room for two inside the historic building. Check-in is listed from 3:00 PM and checkout at 11:00 AM; the quote confirms the hotel's own times.
The grounds hold other buildings too, including a separate motor lodge, and the quote covers the historic hotel building alone. Breakfast sits outside our figure, and the quote confirms whether the hotel serves it. You pay the hotel directly for the stay.
Pricing two nights at the river hotel
from $200
a room shared by two over 2 weeknights, so from $100 per person
We read the hotel's own reservation page on November 4, 2026, for a Wednesday night in mid-November with two adults, and the queen room in the historic building showed $99 a night before tax. Two of those nights, rounded up to the next ten dollars, give our figure: from $200 for two people, or from $100 per person.
The figure covers weeknights, and Friday and Saturday nights fall outside it. The desk adds Iowa's 5% state hotel-motel tax and Keosauqua's 7% local hotel-motel tax, on top of the rate, together with any state sales tax that applies; the quote gives the full total. The hotel's room list showed the nightly rate with no added daily charge, and the written quote confirms that and the final total before you reserve.
Your two Keosauqua nights cover
- A queen room for two in the historic hotel building, two weeknights at the hotel's rate for your month
- Parking on site, which the quote confirms
- A free written quote before anything is held
Settled on top in Keosauqua
- Iowa's 5% state hotel-motel tax and Keosauqua's 7% local hotel-motel tax
- Any Iowa sales tax charged on the room, which the quote states
- Friday and Saturday nights
- Meals, including breakfast, and fuel for the drive
- Rooms in the riverfront motor lodge and the other separate buildings on the grounds
Keosauqua from spring into October
May to October suits Keosauqua: the state park across the river is green, long evenings suit the verandas, and October brings the color on the bluffs. From December to February the hotel stays open, but the valley and the park trails are deep in winter, so the office plans this trip for the warm months and the fall.
North across the line to Van Buren County
Keosauqua is 203 miles from the office, about 4 h 14 min on the road with no traffic and no stops. The route heads north through northeast Missouri and crosses into southeast Iowa, ending at the riverfront. Leave around ten in the morning, stop once for lunch, and you reach the hotel close to the 3:00 PM check-in.
Dates for the riverfront rooms
Send us your dates and how many are traveling, and the office writes back a free quote with the room, the nightly rate for those exact nights and the taxes laid out line by line. When the plan suits you, we reserve the room and you pay the hotel directly for the stay.