Waterloo is Iowa's sixth-largest city, home to a population of more than 67,000 residents. The city is located along the banks of the Cedar River and is home to a beautifully reinvigorated downtown riverfront area, offering a four-mile riverwalk, public park and splash pad, and access to the Riverloop Amphitheater event venue and Riverfront Stadium, the home of the Waterloo Bucks minor league baseball team.

It is a prime tourist destination for cultural and heritage attractions, home to the Silos and Smokestacks National Heritage Area, which preserves sites related to American agriculture, and the Grout Museum District, which contains family-friendly science museums, a veterans museum, and a number of preserved historic houses. Visual and performance arts presentations are held at the Waterloo Center for the Arts, which presents the nation's largest collection of Haitian art. Other attractions include the Hope Martin Theatre and the 40-acre Cedar Valley Arboretum and Botanic Gardens.

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