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Indianapolis Summer Getaways

Follow Us to Indy’s Biggest Attractions

Get face-to-face with dinosaurs and tigers. Go inside an Egyptian burial tomb and underwater with dolphins. When you combine Indy’s two biggest attractions, the combinations are endless. Follow along as one family’s Indianapolis getaway takes them to The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Zoo in White River State Park and other points in between.




Collosal Fun

The largest (and, according to Child magazine, the best) children's museum in the world, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is a huge, five-level playground where over every year more than one million kids and parents come to enjoy (seriously--it's that kind of museum) science, history, art and culture.

  • Meet Seymour and Riad as they peek in to the museum entrance

  • Assembling a sarcophagus in the Treasures of the Earth exhibit

  • Riding the Carousel of Wishes and Dreams

  • Playing and learning in ScienceWorks

  • Bumblebee greets visitors to The Children's Museum

  • The world's largest water clock

  • Dinosaurs busting out of the Dinosphere dome

Close Encounters of the Fun Kind

The Indianapolis Zoo (one of the nation's Top 10, according to TripAdvisor) includes over 350 different animal species on its nearly 70 acres. The zoo is triple-certified as zoo, aquarium and botanical garden, offering up-close encounters with everything from tigers to dolphins to orchids.

  • Tiger Forest gets zoo visitors face-to-face with Siberian Tigers

  • The dolphin viewing dome is submerged for one-of-a-kind views

  • Polar bear alcove at the Indianapolis Zoo

  • A very friendly walrus encounter at the Indianapolis Zoo

  • Elephant viewing at the Indianapolis Zoo

Play, Eat and See the City

Indianapolis offers plenty to do after a day of attractions. Rent a bike or boat and explore White River State Park and the Canal. Enjoy family-friendly dining at one of more than 200 restaurants downtown. And, a trip to Indianapolis isn’t complete without visiting Monument Circle in the heart of the city.

  • The Soldiers and Sailors Monument sits at the heart of Monument Circle

  • Dining in the courtyard at Iozzo's Garden of Italy

  • Riding a surrey along the canal in White River State Park


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