This is my absolute favorite way to spend a day in Grand Rapids. My personal love letter to the city. We’re talking John Ball Zoo on a perfect morning (those red pandas will steal your heart), the most beautiful parks for wandering and people-watchin...
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Outdoor Activities
Restaurants
Other Food & Drinks
Arts & Entertainment
Local Favorites
Indoor and outdoor activities
Outdoor Activities
One of the best zoo’s. They have a great variety of animals.
John Ball Zoo
Fun place for the family to keep busy all day. I particularly like the paved paths for walking.
Millennium Park
We stop here for lunch and fresh bread. There's a wedding venue upstairs.
Grand Rapids Downtown Market
A little bit adventurour a lot abit fun.
TreeRunner West Bloomfield Adventure Park, Putt Forest & Bounce Forest
This is a place to go year round for those outdoor enthusiasts.
Lookout Park
My daughter loves Ice Skating here.
Rosa Parks Circle
Restaurants
Grand Rapids has so many excelent places to eat.
Fun atmosphere with a unique feel plus great food!
Butcher's Union
Great for when you’re in the mood for Mexican Food.
El Cerrito Cocina Mexicana
Yummy place to stop for pizza. I like the Sunny with a Chance of Pesto. A great find when we were just walking around town.
Big O Pizza and Booze
The best food is farm to table food and that’s what they’ve got here!
Littlebird
Other Food & Drinks
They have dairy free cheese for pizza! I still need to try the goat cheese cheesecake!
The Old Goat
This cupcake shop has the LARGEST cupcake menu ever including wheat free and vegan.
The Salted Cupcake
Arts & Entertainment
Tour the city and see great art works. There’s both art and craft type of things but along with large scale art.
ArtPrize
There have been many very cool exhibits here!
Grand Rapids Art Museum
Local Favorites
Local things to fill a day.
I love Frank Lloyd Wright's work and it is amazing to experience first hand.
Meyer May House - Grand Rapids
My kids all loved the merry go round!
Grand Rapids Public Museum
I like the variety of trails at this nature center.
Blandford Nature Center
There are so many great stores to shop from here… including a Lego store!
Woodland Mall
Indoor and outdoor activities
Great indoor climbing park for when it’s too cold out.
Terra Firma Bouldering Co.
Fun for kids and kids at heart. Anyone who likes to run and jump around.
Altitude Trampoline Park
My sons enjoyed seeing a piece of the Berlin Wall… not gunna lie, I did too!
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
Botanical Gardens
These gardens are fun to visit year round. I’ve been to a bonsai exhibit there in the past. In the spring they have a butterfly house to tour.
