Self storage near Lansing, IA: 8x20 units at our Waukon facility
25 minutes from Lansing — 17 miles by road on IA-9 / IA-26. One unit size: 8′ × 20′ shipping container, about 1,280 cu ft. Same rate at every BSU facility — $65/mo on annual (saves $180/yr) or $80/mo month-to-month. 24/7 drive-up access from your first cleared payment.
Mississippi river town with significant seasonal boat and fishing-trailer storage demand.
Getting to Waukon from Lansing
Twenty-five minutes on IA-9. A boat or fishing trailer that goes in after the season and comes out in spring is two trips a year, which makes the drive close to irrelevant and $65/mo on annual the right call. Think harder if you are storing gear you pull most weekends through the season.
Route measured 25 minutes (17 miles) via IA-9 and IA-26 from the center of Lansing to the facility address — not straight-line distance. Prefer we bring it to you? Portable storage delivered to Lansing.
Storage in Lansing, IA
A Mississippi river town where the storage year is set by the water.
Lansing's motto is "Where Main Street Meets The Mississippi," and the town of under a thousand has the working-river history to back it: commercial fishing, clamming, button making and the steamboat trade all ran through here. The marina and boat landing sit at the east end of the Black Hawk Bridge, and Fish Days still fills the second weekend of August every year.
Storage here is set by the water rather than the calendar. Boats, fishing trailers, duck boats and river gear all need somewhere dry between October and April, and an 8x20 container takes a boat on its trailer with room to walk around it. Housing stock in a river town this old runs to small lots and smaller garages, which is the other half of why Lansing customers make the 25-minute run to Waukon.
- County
- Allamakee County
- Population
- ~950
- Nearest units
- Waukon, IA
- Drive
- 17 mi · 25 min
What's open at Waukon right now
3 of 50 units are open at Waukon — that's 94% full. At this level units usually go within a week or two, so if the timing in Lansing matters, reserve rather than plan to.
Counts come from our live inventory system and refresh hourly.
Storing in Lansing? Pick annual.
If your storage timeline in Lansing is longer than nine months, the annual rate wins. $65/mo locked for 12 months saves $180/yr compared to $80/mo month-to-month, and you won't hit a mid-year rate change. If you genuinely think you'll be in and out in under a season — say, between two moves — the month-to-month option is cleaner. We don't do hidden fees and we don't do introductory teaser rates that step up later.
One thing specific to Lansing: at 25 minutes out, the annual rate is almost always the right pick, because the drive is cheap enough that you won't talk yourself into the pricier delivered option halfway through.
Best for: home-to-home moves with no firm end date, ag/contractor seasonal storage, and college-cycle storage around Lansing.
Best for: short bridge between moves, post-flood/renovation cleanup, job-site project of known duration.
Over 12 months versus month-to-month. The break-even is ~9 months — anything beyond and annual is straight money saved.
What Lansing customers actually put in an 8x20
The unit is about 1,280 cubic feet — the contents of a 3-bedroom home with the appliances, or a full-size pickup with room to walk around it. Drive-up access means you back a trailer right to the door: no hallways, no lift, no booking a loading dock. What actually shows up varies by town, and in the Mississippi River corridor it skews like this:
Boats and fishing trailers through the closed season
ATVs, duck blinds and river gear between trips
Household overflow in a town where garages fill up fast
Lansing is home to roughly 950 people in Allamakee County. Our nearest units sit 17 miles away in Waukon, IA — 25 minutes door to gate.
Many customers from the Lansing area are looking for a secure place to keep boats, trailers, or seasonal equipment when they’re not using them. Having easy access when the season changes is something we hear about often.
Common questions from Lansing
At 25 minutes each way, yes for almost any timeline. Once you're moved in most Lansing customers visit a handful of times a year, and $65/mo on annual is hard to beat by driving less far.
Yes. 24/7 gate access starts the day your first payment clears. Same code, same gate, no time restrictions.
We standardize on the 8x20 shipping container. If you need significantly less space, an 8x20 may still be the right call — splitting belongings across two facilities usually costs more than slightly over-buying once.
If you'd rather we bring the container to you, see our portable storage in Lansing page — $100/mo annual or $120/mo month-to-month, plus a delivery fee based on distance from our Waukon yard.
Reserve a unit at Waukon
$65/mo on annual · 24/7 access · no setup fee · sign electronically in 5 minutes