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 ...

You can see plenty of the Christmas lights around Indianapolis without leaving a heated car. The Holiday Lights Railbike Adventure asks for a little more effort. Nickel Plate Express puts families on ...

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 ...

The Sullivan Express to the North Pole is a holiday train that leaves from Central Station inside Sullivan Hardware & Garden at 71st Street and Keystone Avenue in Indianapolis. The Traditional ride ...

Eleven races start on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2026, in Indianapolis and the suburbs around it. Three start at 8 a.m., two at 8:30 and six at 9. The longest course is 4.3 miles, and ...

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 ...