Prairie Meadows Casino, Racetrack, & Hotel Altoona Iowa

About Altoona

Altoona is a city in Polk County, Iowa, United States, and is a part of the Des Moines metropolitan area. The population was 19,565 at the 2020 census.Altoona is home of the Adventureland amusement park and Prairie Meadows horse racing track and casino. == History == Anthony Yant first settled in what is now Altoona in 1854, the same year Gilbert T. Taylor settled there. The land was originally surveyed in 1847 and put up for sale by the US government in 1848, but it took six years to sell. After many sales between different families, the Davis family ended up with the land on February 1, 1868.The Davises hired surveyor Juian B. Bausman to lay out the city.