Enjoy Fun Things To Do In Milwaukee, WI
Stay at our downtown hotel and you’ll need a tourist to-do list that’s about a mile long. What won’t be long is the amount of time you’ll spend to get to Milwaukee’s fun attractions. In fact, many are within walking distance of our front doors like the Captain Fredrick Pabst Mansion and the Milwaukee Public Museum.Below, you’ll get the low down on some of the fun things to see and do in our diverse downtown neighborhood.
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Milwaukee County Zoo. Nearly 2,000 rare and wild land and water animals make their home at the Milwaukee County Zoo-everything from a Two-Toed Sloth to a Pacific Giant Octopus to a Vampire Bat. A petting zoo and train rides, plus sea lion and raptor shows make a day at the zoo a day to remember. For more information, visit www.milwaukeezoo.org. [Top]
Miller Park. Since April, 2001, Miller Park has been the home field of Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers. Discover the signature fan-shaped convertible roof, a color replay board measuring 48-feet wide and 37-feet tall on top of a matrix scoreboard measuring 76-feet by 32-feet, and four choices of front-row seats on four different levels. For more information and the 2007 Brewers’ schedule, visit http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/index.jsp?c_id=mil. Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. Experience a desert oasis, a tropical jungle and special floral gardens all under one roof-or, rather under three domes - at Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory. Encounter an incredible collection of cacti, succulents, shrubs and arid-land bulbs at the Arid Dome. Stroll through the Tropical Dome and be bedazzled by rainforest plants, orchids and colorful birds. Enter the Floral Show Dome and you’ll be awash in gardens of color. For more information, visit www.county.milwaukee.gov/MitchellParkConserva10116.htm. [Top]
Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin. In a word, Discovery World is not easily described in a word. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan, this complex and innovative attraction brings together a unique combination of educational, cultural and environmental programs for kids of all ages. Experience a heaping helping of hands-on exhibits, fresh water and salt water aquariums, live performance theater and state-of-the-art media. For more information, visit www.discoveryworld.org.Milwaukee Public Museum. To say the Milwaukee Public Museum was diverse would be an understatement of immense proportions-almost as immense as the 150,000 square-foot museum itself. Tour Africa, Asia, Europe, the Arctic, South and Middle America, the Pacific Island and a Costa Rican rainforest. Travel back in time to turn-of-the-century Milwaukee, to ancient Mediterranean civilizations or more than 65 million years to witness the world’s largest-known dinosaur skull. For more information, visit www.mpm.edu/index.php. [Top]
Milwaukee Mile. Milwaukee Mile began hosting motorized racing events in 1903, a full eight years before the first Indianapolis 500, making it the oldest, continually operating motor speedway in the world. A virtual who’s-who of motorsports’ finest competitors have raced here, including Parnelli Jones, A.J. Foyt, Jimmy Clark, the Unsers, the Andrettis, Nigel Mansell and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. For more information, visit www.milwaukeemile.com.Milwaukee Art Museum. Since it first opened its doors in 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum has featured a far-reaching collection of works from antiquity to the present. Today, it boasts nearly 20,000 pieces in its permanent holdings. Represented artists include Winslow Homer, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Jóan Miro, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mark Rothko, Robert Gober and Andy Warhol. For more information, visit www.mam.org. [Top]
Wisconsin State Fair Park. Everything from garden shows to jewelry expos to harvest fairs come home to roost at Wisconsin State Fair Park from year to year. But the year’s biggest event is the park’s namesake. For 11 action-packed days in August, the Wisconsin State Fair brings fun family entertainment to Milwaukee. Enjoy food, shopping and 30 stages of local and national entertainment. For more information, visit www.wsfp.state.wi.us/home/wsfp.Potawatomi Bingo Casino. Renowned throughout the world for its high-stakes Bingo, Potawatomi pays out an amazing $50,000 daily-just in Bingo. Thrill to other casino games such as blackjack, craps, roulette and more than 1,000 slot machines. What’s more, the Potawatomi now features live acts in a 500-seat cabaret-style dinner theater, specialty restaurants and an information-packed heritage center complete with gift shop. For more information, visit www.paysbig.com. [Top]
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