Prairie City Fall City-Wide Garage Sales (IA) 2026 Map & Guide

The Prairie City Fall City-Wide Garage Sales are a town-wide day when households across Prairie City, Iowa hold their sales at the same time. The main day is Saturday, September 12, 2026, and the city's sign-up form lets sellers open early, so a number of them are also out on the Thursday and Friday before. When a whole small town sells on one day, you can cover it in a single morning without much driving in between, which is exactly why a citywide is worth planning around.

Prairie City is a small community in Jasper County in central Iowa, just off Highway 163 between Des Moines and Pella. It sits at the edge of the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, the tallgrass-prairie restoration whose Friends group runs a sale of its own on the list. Expect the mix a settled Iowa farm town turns out in the fall: kids' clothes and gear, furniture, hand and garden tools, kitchenware, household decor, and the occasional real find out of a garage or shed that hasn't been cleared in years. A church sale on the list runs its proceeds to missions and puts out cinnamon rolls, and the library holds a book and bake sale the same weekend.

Every participating address the organizers published is plotted here on MapMySales, each with the days it's open and what the seller says they'll have out. See them all on one map, line up the shortest loop around the ones nearest you, and start with the blocks near the middle of town, where most of the lineup sits within about a mile.