Even with gasoline prices in Iowa well over four dollars a gallon, a survey finds most Iowa motorists are simply resigning themselves to paying more to fill the tank, and they won’t let it foil their Memorial Day weekend plans. Brian Ortner, spokesman for Triple-A Iowa, says projections for the holiday ahead indicate slightly fewer motorists will be traveling 50 miles or more from home compared to last year.
“It’s a little lower than we saw in 2025, but not much, and air travel dropped a little bit as well from 2025 numbers,” Ortner says, “but when you look at the other forms of travel, which is bus, trains, or cruises, we are up in our region and set a new record, with 406,000 folks opting to take those other forms of travel.”
Triple-A says the average price for a gallon of gas in Iowa today is four-19, that’s a dollar-31 higher compared to this date a year ago.
