Wildflower Walks for Families at Eloise Butler Garden
The Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden turns family walks into treasure hunts with petals. Fifteen acres inside Theodore Wirth Park bloom in acts: April’s bloodroot and...
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Free Family Days in the Twin Cities: A Year of No-Cost Fun
The Twin Cities might be America’s best metro for free family fun — if you know the calendar. Anchors that never charge: Como Park Zoo...
Splash Pads and Wading Pools: Minneapolis’s Free Summer Cool-Down Map
On a hot July afternoon, the most important map in Minneapolis is the blue one: the Park Board’s 60-plus wading pools and splash pads, scattered...
Twins Family Day at Target Field: Baseball With the Kids
Target Field, the Minnesota Twins’ limestone jewel in the North Loop, was designed for families as much as for pennant races. The ballpark opens early...
Hennepin County Library With Kids: Storytimes, Play Spaces and Wonder
Ask Minneapolis parents for their rainy-day headquarters and they’ll point to the library — all 41 branches of Hennepin County Library, each with a children’s...
Three Rivers Nature Centers: Eastman, Richardson and Lowry With Kids
The Twin Cities’ secret family weapon is a ring of nature centers run by Three Rivers Park District — and most of the magic is...
The Minnesota State Fair With Kids: A Family Survival-and-Joy Guide
Twelve days, nearly two million visitors, one legendary fair. The Minnesota State Fair with kids is a joyful logistics operation — and families who plan...
Theodore Wirth Park With Kids: Tubing, Swimming and Storybook Trails
Every season, Theodore Wirth Park hands Minneapolis families a new superpower. Winter: the tubing hill at The Trailhead, where a lift hauls laughing kids (and...
Sculpture Garden With Kids: A Giant-Art Scavenger Hunt
Here’s a family secret: the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is secretly a playground designed by famous artists. Turn a visit into a scavenger hunt and kids...
A Family Day at Minnehaha Falls: Waterfall, Wading and Wabun
Minnehaha Park is the family day that plans itself. Start at the falls overlook for the gasp, descend the stairs to walk behind the water...
