West Michigan has so much to see and do, you’ll start planning your next visit before you finish your first! If your sights are set on learning, you’ll love our museums and historic places. Experience our zoos. Explore our lighthouses. If it’s adventure you’re after, take a day cruise. Rent a dune buggy. Tame a wild water park. If culture is your pursuit, let West Michigan entertain you with festivals galore and performing arts year around.<\/p>\n
Grand Rapids, Michigan\u2019s second largest city, offers small-city comfort with big-city sophistication. You can stroll the downtown river walk, explore historic Heritage Hill, enjoy evening performances, and cheer at professional sporting events. The city\u2019s bustling Downtown District offers night clubs, theaters and dining options galore. Four outstanding museums are all within walking distance, and just minutes from downtown, the Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park combines nature\u2019s beauty with extraordinary modern sculpture.<\/p>\n
Simply head a short distance to the west of Grand Rapids to experience charming seaside villages, a thousand miles from the sea. Explore quaint coastal towns and spectacular beaches in Grand Haven, Holland and Muskegon. Visit a vast array of art and sculpture galleries, dune-filled parks and Michigan\u2019s Adventure amusement park.<\/p>\n
City of Grand Rapids Transportation<\/b><\/p>\n Amtrak<\/a>\u2014Service to and from Chicago What to do while in town<\/b><\/p>\n Van Andel Public Museum West Michigan has so much to see and do, you’ll start planning your next visit before you finish your first! If your sights are set on learning, you’ll love our… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmichiganregional.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/a>Downtown Map
\n<\/a>Grand Rapids City Map
\n<\/a>Downtown Dining Map
\n<\/a>Downtown Parking Map
\n<\/a>Visitor Information Centers
\n<\/a>Hotels in the Area
\n<\/a>Driving Directions
\n<\/a>More on the West Michigan Area<\/a><\/p>\n
\nGerald R. Ford International Airport
\n<\/a>Metro Transit<\/a>\u2014There is bus service<\/a> that travels from GVSU\u2019s downtown campus to Allendale and has a stop in front of the field house.\u00a0 There is also Metro Transit service to and from the Gerald R. Ford International airport.<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Roger B. Chaffee Planetarium
\n<\/a>Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
\n<\/a>AHL Hockey\u2014Grand Rapids Griffins
\n<\/a>Arena Football\u2014Grand Rapids Rampage
\n<\/a>West Michigan Whitecaps Baseball
\n<\/a>Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park
\n<\/a>Craig\u2019s Cruisers
\n<\/a>Shopping Malls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"