Neighboring Cities - AmericInn^® Rochester - Kasson, MN

Welcome to the Cities Neighboring our Kasson Minnesota Hotel

Rochester, MN

AmericInn Kasson is just located 12 miles from Rochester, MN. Rochester is in Olmsted County and is located on both banks of the Zumbro River. It is perhaps best known as the home of Mayo Clinic (giving rise to the city's nickname, "Med City") and is also home to an IBM facility.

The Mayo Clinic forms the core of Rochester's economy, drawing over 2 million visitors to the city each year. The clinic's many facilities, along with restaurants and retail stores, comprise nearly the entire city's downtown. IBM's Rochester campus is one of the company's most important manufacturing centers. It produces the System I series, was home to the first Blue Gene prototype, and contributed the servers for Roadrunner.

Rochester may also be home to the largest "ear of corn" in the world. It is an inedible water tower right next to the Seneca Foods plant in the city. Many of the tallest buildings in Rochester are owned by Mayo. Mayo’s Plummer Building, a national historic landmark, is considered to be among the most architecturally significant in Minnesota. The tallest building in Rochester is the recently constructed Oakwood Broadway Plaza, a residential dwelling. The famous brick motherhouse of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota on the wooded hill of Assisi Heights can be seen from almost the entire city.

Rochester International Airport (FAA designation RST) is located eight miles (13 km) south of downtown Rochester and is accessible via Highway 63. Taxis and airport shuttles provide service between the airport and the city's business centers. The airport features two runways and service terminals operated by American Airlines and Delta Air Lines.

Byron, MN

AmericInn Kasson is located 4 miles west of Byron. Byron is a city in Olmsted County, Minnesota, United States, approximately 8 miles west of Rochester on U.S. Route 14.

Local industries are in the form of farm services and printing. A grain elevator is situated next to the rail line that runs through town, which is owned by the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad. Schmidt Printing is another major company in town and is part of Taylor Corporation, founded by Glen Taylor.

The city received its name at the suggestion of George W. Van Dusen, who desired the name to be derived from his home town of Port Byron, New York. Van Dusen grew his fortune with his investments in grain elevators along railroad lines. The Byron area had apparently been known as Bear Grove before being renamed, supposedly because there were one or more bears living in the vicinity early on. The school mascot for Byron is a bear, in recognition of that story.

Byron has one of the major parks in the county, Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo, is 3.5 miles north of town. The zoo has dozens of animals from thirty different native species, including a number of birds, a mountain lion, wolves, otters, and some bison. Byron is home to two golf courses. Someby Golf club and Community is a private golf club and community, located on the north side of the city. Links of Byron is on the south side of Byron, and is a 9-hole executive length public golf course.

Dodge Center, MN

Located on the west about 5 miles from AmericInn Kasson is city in the Dodge County, MN. Dodge Center is famous for Garwin Mcneilus Wind Farms and the largest employer in Dodge Center, McNeilus Steel, a manufacturer of ready-mixed concrete mixer trucks, garbage trucks, and related apparatus. McNeilus is a division of Oshkosh Corporation.

The city is located along the mainline of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific. This east-west line had been owned by the Chicago and North Western Railway until the 1980s when DM&E was formed. Dodge Center also used to be on the Chicago Great Western mainline which ran south from St. Paul down through Iowa and across to Chicago, Illinois. There were at least three train stations built in the town over the years. Two of these still exist. Dodge Center is also the reported hometown of multi-personality "Sybil". The locals can tell you where her childhood home is located. The real "Sybil," Shirley Ardell Mason, was born here in 1923 and graduated from Dodge Center High School in 1941.

Dodge Center is home to a man with one of the largest license plate collections in the world. Douglas Brekke has been featured on television and in news articles. He quotes license plate numbers and the dates that their tabs expire on just about any townsperson’s car at will. He has been a McNeilus employee since 1977.