A free gondola ride is the stop to plan around at Trail & Treat on the Canal, the Indianapolis Cultural Trail’s trick-or-treat night along the Downtown Canal. It runs Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, from 5 ...

Greenfield is the Hancock County seat and James Whitcomb Riley’s hometown, and the poet’s name is on the city’s main park, its October festival and the boyhood home on Main Street. Six of the 11 picks ...

Three park departments share Avon. Washington Township Parks runs the free splash pad, the tortoises at Pecar Park and Murphy Aquatic Park; the Town of Avon runs Blue Heron Park, the 83 acres around ...

Plenty of Indianapolis families already know Westfield from a Grand Park parking lot. It’s worth staying after the last game. The city has a downtown plaza built around a creek, an all-inclusive ...

Noblesville is the Hamilton County town with a working heritage railroad, a covered bridge, a snow tubing hill and a courthouse square that still gets a Santa House every holiday season. These 20 ...

Zionsville fits a lot into a small town: a brick Main Street you can walk end to end, a string of creek-side parks tied together by the Big-4 Rail Trail, a working dairy farm and a nature center ...

Greenwood does parks better than its size suggests. There’s a downtown playground with a climbing tower kids talk about for weeks, Indiana’s first all-accessible playground, a city-run indoor play ...

Most of what Brownsburg does well for kids is free and outside: a fenced wooden playground shaped like a rocket ship, a splash pad with a 21-foot tipping bucket, a shady 52-acre park downtown and a ...

Award-winning Bishop Chatard Catholic High School serves the North Deanery of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and offers an ...

Located near Lebanon’s Courthouse Square, Chabella’s Social Block is housed in what was once the Boone County Jail. It’s now a unique restaurant that combines local history and a varied menu. Dining ...

Trunk-or-treats, costume parades, haunted hayrides and sensory-friendly trick-or-treat trails: these Halloween events around Indianapolis come straight from our family event calendar, listed by date.