There are 10 ways to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis by bus, train, plane, bus (Flixbus), train (Amtrak), car, subway, or bus (Greyhound)
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Line 18 bus, train to Harrisburg International Airport, fly
best- Take the bus from Queen St. Station to AMTRAK ETownbus
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to Harrisburgtrain
- Fly from Harrisburg International Airport (MDT) to Indianapolis (IND)plane MDT - IND
9h 5mBus via Indianapolis Union Station (Greyhound)
cheapest- Take the bus from Harrisburg Bus Station to Indianapolis Union Stationbus Greyhound US0421
16h 39m$91–181Bus (Flixbus)
- Take the bus from Harrisburg Bus Station to Indianapolisbus FlixBus N2642 / ...
15h 39m$101–171Train (Amtrak)
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain Keystone Service / ...
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Indianapolistrain Cardinal
26h 5m$298–656Drive 573.5 mi
- Drive from Lancaster to Indianapoliscar 573.5 mi
9h 59m$105–152Train to Philadelphia International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain
- Fly from Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to Indianapolis (IND)plane PHL - IND
8h 16m$153–911Train, train to Baltimore-Washington International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to BWI Thurgood Marshalltrain
- Fly from Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI) to Indianapolis (IND)plane BWI - IND
9h 18m$454–1,808Train, train to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, fly
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Stationtrain
- Fly from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) to Indianapolis (IND)plane DCA - IND
10h 8m$1,014–2,315Train, train to Newark Liberty International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Newark Liberty International Airporttrain
- Fly from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) to Indianapolis (IND)plane EWR - IND
9h 56m$275–1,713Train, subway to Washington Dulles International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Stationtrain
- Take the train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Stationtrain
- Take the subway from Farragut West, Blue/Orange/Silver Line Track 2 Platform to Washington Dulles International Airport, Silver Line Center Platformsubway
- Fly from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) to Indianapolis (IND)plane IAD - IND
10h 35m$149–1,204
Lancaster to Indianapolis by bus and train (Flixbus)
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis is to bus via Indianapolis Union Station which costs $90 - $190 and takes 16h 39m.
The fastest way to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis is to train and fly which takes 8h 16m and costs $150 - $950.
No, there is no direct bus from Lancaster station to Indianapolis. However, there are services departing from Queen St. Station and arriving at Indianapolis via Harrisburg Bus Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 15h 39m.
No, there is no direct train from Lancaster station to Indianapolis. However, there are services departing from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station and arriving at Indianapolis via 30th Street Station. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 26h 5m.
The distance between Lancaster and Indianapolis is 574 miles. The road distance is 576.9 miles.
The best way to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis without a car is to bus which takes 15h 39m and costs $100 - $180.
It takes approximately 9h 5m to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis, including transfers.
Lancaster to Indianapolis bus services, operated by Flixbus USA, depart from Harrisburg Bus Station.
Lancaster to Indianapolis train services, operated by Amtrak, depart from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station.
The best way to get from Lancaster to Indianapolis is to bus which takes 15h 39m and costs $100 - $180. Alternatively, you can train, which costs $290 - $700 and takes 26h 5m.
What companies run services between Lancaster, PA, USA and Indianapolis, IN, USA?
Flixbus USA operates a bus from Harrisburg Bus Station to Indianapolis once daily. Tickets cost $95–160 and the journey takes 12h 20m. Alternatively, you can take a bus from W. Walnut & N. Mary St. to Indianapolis via AMTRAK ETown, Elizabethtown Amtrak Station, and 30th Street Station in around 26h 5m.
- Website
- aa.com
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 12m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $220–1,200
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 3m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $250–1,300
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 17m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $240–1,300
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $130–750
Flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $150–850
Flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Indianapolis via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 6m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190–1,000
Flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Indianapolis via Philadelphia International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $180–950
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $130–650
Flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Indianapolis via Charlotte
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $110–600
- Website
- united.com
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Washington Dulles International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–1,100
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Chicago O'Hare
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 33m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $240–1,300
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis via Washington Dulles International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 1m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $140–750
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–850
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–550
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis via Washington Dulles International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 16m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $85–490
- Website
- southwest.com
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis via Chicago Midway
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 7m
- When
- Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $170–850
Flights from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $100–600
Flights from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Indianapolis via Nashville
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Sunday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $140–700
Flights from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Indianapolis via Chicago Midway
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $130–700
Flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Indianapolis via Chicago Midway
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $190–1,000
- Website
- delta.com
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Atlanta
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 27m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $300–1,400
Flights from Harrisburg International Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 47m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $200–1,100
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 4m
- When
- Saturday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $150–800
Flights from Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $120–650
Flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $170–950
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 21m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Flights from Washington Dulles International Airport to Indianapolis via Detroit
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $100–550
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Philadelphia International Airport to Indianapolis via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 24m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $160–850
Flights from Newark Liberty International Airport to Indianapolis via Toronto
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 29m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $110–600
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- amtrak.com
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to Harrisburg
- Ave. Duration
- 19 min
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $5–12
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 40m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- $270–600
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to BWI Thurgood Marshall
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–70
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–90
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to Newark Liberty International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $25–55
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from Elizabethtown Amtrak Station to 30th Street Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 27m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- $27–60
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 58m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $40–90
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
Rome2Rio's guide to Amtrak Acela
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 800-872-7245
- Website
- amtrak.com
Train from 30th Street Station to BWI Thurgood Marshall
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 22m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $24–650
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Business Class
- $24–460
- First Class
- $140–650
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–650
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Business Class
- $30–470
- First Class
- $150–650
Train from 30th Street Station to Washington Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 49m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $30–650
- Schedules at
- https://www.amtrak.com/acela-train
- Website
- https://www.amtrak.com/home.html
- Business Class
- $30–470
- First Class
- $150–650
- Phone
- +1 202 466 3876
- Website
- wmata.com
Subway from Farragut West, Blue/Orange/Silver Line Track 2 Platform to Washington Dulles International Airport, Silver Line Center Platform
- Ave. Duration
- 47 min
- Frequency
- Every 15 minutes
- Estimated price
- $2–3
- Website
- https://www.wmata.com
- standard fare after 9:30 p.m
- $2–3
- Phone
- +1 717-397-4246
- Website
- redrosetransit.com
Bus from Queen St. Station to AMTRAK ETown
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Website
- https://www.redrosetransit.com
- Phone
- +1 (855) 626-8585
- Website
- https://www.flixbus.com
Bus from Harrisburg Bus Station to Indianapolis
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $95–160
- Schedules at
- flixbus.com
Rome2Rio's guide to Greyhound USA
Contact DetailsContact Details
- Phone
- +1 214-849-8100
- [email protected]
- Website
- greyhound.com
Bus from Harrisburg Bus Station to Indianapolis Union Station
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 20m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- $85–170
- Website
- https://www.greyhound.com/
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More Questions & Answers
Lancaster to Indianapolis bus services, operated by Flixbus USA, arrive at Indianapolis station.
Lancaster to Indianapolis train services, operated by Amtrak, arrive at 30th Street Station.
Yes, the driving distance between Lancaster to Indianapolis is 577 miles. It takes approximately 9h 59m to drive from Lancaster to Indianapolis.
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