Kick off your shoes, grab your swim suit and come experience a taste of the tropics in the heart of Indiana. Only Tropicanoe Cove offers the perfect blend of Hoosier hospitality with the pleasure of a watery paradise. From the spiraling Banana Peel tube slide to the leisurely Cattail Crik, you're sure to find plenty of cool summertime fun for the entire family!

Tropicanoe Cove is located in Lafayette's historic Columbian Park. Parking is available near the corner of Main and Scott Streets.

Open Monday to Saturday 11:00am - 6:00pm, Sunday 12:00pm - 6pm.

Columbian Park Zoo’s mission is to encourage the appreciation of the world’s wildlife, to enhance the preservation and conservation of biodiversity and to inspire educational discovery and exploration in a fun, family-oriented environment for all citizens of the Greater Lafayette Area.

Open daily 10:00am to 7:00pm.

Fair Oaks Farms is an agricultural adventure experience located approximately 50 minutes north of Lafayette.

“The Adventures” at Fair Oaks Farms include multiple museum spaces, children’s play areas, farm tours, and educational and fun programming.

General admission to “The Adventures” includes:

Access to three awesome on-campus agriculture themed museums.

Entrance to the on-campus birthing barn, where you can see calves being born.

Summer fun in our outdoor Mooville area.

Optional Dairy and/or Pig Farm tours.

Indiana’s newest state park, Prophetstown is located where the Tippecanoe River meets the Wabash near the town of Battle Ground northeast of Lafayette. The park's landscape has been shaped by ice from glaciers, moving water, fire, and human hands that helped maintain the vast tall prairie grass. Native American people hunted and lived along the two rivers for thousands of years.

Through our unique partnership with The Farm at Prophetstown, visitors can discover 1920s farm lifestyles, Native American culture and take a stroll through 900 acres of restored prairie. We are restoring native habitats such as wetlands, wet slopes called fens, prairies, and open woodlands.

Happy Hollow Park is a beautiful wooded park in the heart of West Lafayette, approximately 81 acres in size with 1 mile of paved Trolley Line Trail (hiking) and approximately 1 mile of Footpaths (Salisbury St., Garden, and Rose Street Trails). The park contains 2 accessible playgrounds for ages 2-5 and 5-12, a open turf area and 5 picnic shelters. This park also features a Dog Park.

The Lafayette Farmer’s Market has been around for over 180 years! Taking place on Saturdays, from early May through late October, a visit to the Lafayette Farmer’s Market promises some of the finest and freshest produce, as well as an enjoyable opportunity to browse as you stroll through one of Indiana’s oldest outdoor markets. While there, you also explore beautiful historic downtown Lafayette.

Hours: 8 AM - 12:30 PM

The world-renowned Children's Museum of Indianapolis is the world's largest children's museum. It is located at 3000 North Meridian Street, Indianapolis, Indiana in the United Northwest Area neighborhood of the city. There are five floors of exhibit halls, and it receives more than one million visitors annually. Its collection of over 130,000 artifacts and exhibit items is divided into two domains: Arts & Humanities and the Natural Sciences. Among the exhibits are simulated Cretaceous and Jurassic dinosaur habitats, a carousel, a steam locomotive, and the glass sculpture Fireworks of Glass Tower and Ceiling. The museum's focus is family learning; most exhibits are designed to be interactive.

The Indianapolis Zoo is a 93-acre (38 ha) non-profit zoo, public aquarium, and botanical garden in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The current zoo opened in 1988 at White River State Park near downtown Indianapolis.

It was the first in the U.S. to receive triple accreditation as a zoo, aquarium, and botanical garden. The zoo is a leader in animal conservation and research, recognized for its biennial Indianapolis Prize and as home to the Global Center for Species Survival through its partnership with the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

The zoo houses more than 1,400 animals of 235 species while the adjoining White River Gardens contained more than 50,000 plants of nearly 3,000 species, respectively.

Go to the place Caleb and Sonia had their first date: the Bottleworks District! Bottleworks has quickly become one of Indianapolis’ coolest hotspots.

The district encompasses 12 acres of mixed-use development, including a boutique hotel, a theater, and the city’s first food hall. With its prime location in the heart of Indy, the Bottleworks District is the perfect spot to grab a drink after work, try international cuisine from local restaurants, and enjoy a movie night with your friends and family.

Bottleworks is located right at the end of Mass Ave, one of the most popular cultural districts in downtown Indianapolis. Mass Ave offers their own fine dining restaurants, art galleries, and theaters, so you can easily explore the neighborhood for a full day out on the town! And Bottleworks is also on the Cultural Trail, giving you convenient access to bikeshares, bus stops, and walking paths.

Bottleworks gets its fun name from the historic site it now occupies: the iconic Indianapolis Coca-Cola Bottling Plant. The original plant was first built back in 1931, and it grew into largest bottling plant in the world! Now, the Bottleworks District is a fusion of the past and present! During construction, they revitalized the building, breathing new life into its industrial Art Deco architecture.