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Tulip Locations.Indd TULIPS IN TOPREASONS TO VISIT TEN HOLLAND VIBRANT DOWNTOWN Baymont Inn & Suites AREA HOTELS HOLLAND Boutique shopping, summer street 616.396.8822 performers, waterfront concerts, open-air Farmer’s Market Best Western Plus HOLLAND Holland Inn & Suites WARM SANDY BEACHES 616.994.0400 Holland State Park, Tunnel Park and secluded Laketown Beach. Seadoo, kayak CityFlats Hotel and stand-up paddle board rentals 616.796.2100 SPECIALTY SHOPPING Country Inn & Suites Over 100 downtown shops, galleries and 616.396.6677 eateries, charming neighborhood districts, Dutch import shops Courtyard by Marriott 616.582.8500 FESTIVALS & EVENTS Tulip Time, Dutch Winterfest, Tulipanes Days Inn Latino Film Festival, Civil War Muster, Art In 616.392.7001 the Park, Live Mannequin Night, Girlfriend’s Weekend DoubleTree by Hilton 616.394.0111 UNIQUE DUTCH ATTRACTIONS Nelis’ Dutch Village, Windmill Island Gardens, Economy Inn DeKlomp Wooden Shoe & Delft Factory, 616.392.7073 Veldheer Gardens, Holland Museum, Cappon House Fairfield Inn 616.786.9700 “BIG RED” LIGHTHOUSE Michigan’s most photographed lighthouse Hampton Inn on the shores of Lake Michigan Big Red 616.399.8500 is best viewed from across the channel at Holland State Park, (2214 Ottawa Beach Haworth Inn & Conference Center Rd, 49424). For further information, log onto 616.395.7200 Bigredlighthouse.org and click on “visitor info.” Holiday Inn Express OUTDOOR FUN 616.738.2800 150 miles of paved bike paths, Mt Pisgah dune climb, nature centers, Lake Ranch Resort (seasonal) U-picks & farm markets, golfing, fishing, and 616.399.9380 cross-country skiing Microtel Inn & Suites FAMILY FUN 616.392.3235 Glow bowling, laser tag, go-karts, bumper boats, mini golf, paddle wheel cruises, splash Quality Inn – Holland pad 616.392.1000 HOPS, GRAPES & SPIRITS Residence Inn Microbreweries, distilleries and 616.393.6900 wine tasting rooms Wooden aShoe Motel AWARD-WINNING COMMUNITY 616.392.8521 “America’s Prettiest Towns” Forbes Magazine Woodspring Suites 616.738.8200 Coolest Downtown America in Bloom Quality Inn – Hudsonville 616.662.4000 “Holland is drop-dead adorable….” Kathie Lee Gifford on the Today Show Travelodge – Hudsonville 616.896.6710 78 East 8th Street | Holland, Michigan | 800.506.1299 For more information, go to www.holland.org MIKE LOZON TABLE OF CONTENTS HISTORY OF THE TULIP ..............3 PLANTING TULIPS ..................5 MAPS Tulip Plantings & Parks ............7 Centennial Park ..................8 Surrounding Downtown .......... 10 8th Street ...................12-15 Window on the Waterfront ....16-19 Windmill Island Gardens. 20-23 Area Map ...................... 26 TULIP VARIETIES AND INDEX ....... 24 If you’re traveling with your pet, listings with paw prints (Î ) indicate pet-friendly parks, properties, attractions, and businesses. Î Pet Friendly • B Public Restrooms • Portable Restrooms 78 East 8th Street • Holland, MI 49423 ILE DE FRANCE 800.506.1299 • 616.394.0000 • www.holland.org TRIUMPH BLUSHING BEAUTY 2 SINGLE LATE CITY OF VANCOUVER SINGLE LATE HISTORY OF THE TULIP Have you ever wondered where tulips tulip was a rarity only the very wealthy The first tulip bulbs came to Holland, MI came from and how they made their could afford. By 1624, the price of one with one of the waves of settlers after way to the shores of Lake Michigan? Rembrandt-type tulip reached the Albertus VanRaalte founded the town in Surprisingly, the Netherlands was not the equivalent of $1,500. The time between 1846. The bulbs were planted and thrived first place to grow its trademark flower. 1634 and 1637, commonly known as in the sandy loam soil found in the area. In As early as 1,000 AD, the Turks were “Tulipmania,” is often compared to the 1927, Lida Rodgers, a high school biology cultivating tulips; their source was the Stock Market surge of the 1920s. In 1637, teacher, suggested that the city plant mountainous region of central Asia that tulip trading crashed, leaving many of tulips along the streets and in city parks boarders Russia and China. Many believe the rich instantly impoverished. However, as a beautification effort. In 1928, the city the flower was named for its resemblance over the following decades, the Dutch purchased 100,000 bulbs; following Lida’s to turbans worn in the Middle East maintained a commercial devotion to the recommendations, Holland held its first – “turban”, written in Latin, becomes tulip. tulip festival in the spring of 1929! “tulipa.” Today the Netherlands produces three Dutch tulip history began in 1593 when billion tulip bulbs a year. They export botanist Carolus Clusius began cultivating two billion, with the U.S. being the top tulips in the Netherlands. At first, the importer. 3 4 PLANTING TULIPS Each September close to 1,000,000 tulip bulbs arrive in Department and staff at Windmill Island Gardens also plant Holland! After being inspected, the “planting of the bulbs” begins over 400,000 tulip bulbs along the city streets and in the parks. in early October and runs through mid-November. (Over 120 varieties of tulips are planted.) When you combine the City Parks Department, Windmill Island staff plantings and the area tulip farm with local 200,000 bulbs are planted by hand, using bulb planters that businesses and residents planting their own bulbs, Holland punch a hole in the soil. The bulb is then dropped in and bursts into bloom with over 5,000,000 tulips each spring! covered by raking the soil back over the bulb. The “tulip lanes” along the city streets are planted differently. Using a special machine, a trench is dug along the curb’s edge, with the bulbs being hand-thrown into the trench. A machine then covers the bulbs with soil. The fields at both Windmill Island Gardens DID YOU KNOW? and Window on the Waterfront Park are planted with a six row modified planter. Planting 50,000 bulbs at each location Many visitors want to take tulip bulbs home to plant in their takes about two-and-a-half days. Another 30,000 bulbs are own gardens. While bulbs are not available in the spring, they planted by volunteers during “tulip bulb planting day”; and the can be ordered for fall delivery. Look for the to see final 10,000 bulbs are planted by city staff, for a total of 90,000 where bulbs can be ordered. bulbs in the fields at Window on the Waterfront. The Parks 5 PORT SHELDON ST. PORT SHELDON ST. NEW HOLLAND ST. NEW HOLLAND ST. VELDHEER TULIP FARM/ 9 TULIP PLANTING MAPS TULIP LANES, PLANTINGS 9 QUINCY ST. QUINCY ST. & ATTRACTIONS DEKLOMP WOODEN SHOE 1 CENTENNIAL PARK & DELFT FACTORY 120TH AVE. 120TH 144TH AVE. 144TH 168TH AVE. 168TH AVE. 136TH 152ND AVE. 152ND 24,000 TULIPS 4 MILLION TULIPS 239 S. River Ave 49423 CURBSIDE TULIP LANES RILEY ST. 12755 Quincy St 49424 RILEY ST. This Victorian-style park was Holland’s original 250,000 TULIPS (616) 399.1900 N NORTH market square. Featuring a fishpond, fountain, Six miles of curbside plantings provide This 40-acre farm has been family owned for LAKE SHORE DR. FELCH ST. BEELINE and winding cobblestone pathways, the a driving route through Holland’s 80 years. Gardens $ (Wooden Shoe & Delft JAMES ST. JAMES ST. park is the site of evening Klompen Dance neighborhoods, including the historic district. Factory free). The most picturesque portion features BUTTERNUT 10 performances and the Art and Craft Fair on Saturday and Sunday, May 6-7. Î flowering kwanzan cherry, crab and plum 10 NELIS’ DUTCH VILLAGE (See corresponding map on page 8) trees along the boulevards of Washington 15,000 TULIPS LAKEWOOD BLVD. LAKEWOOD BLVD. Ave and 12th St. Although the city plants the 12350 James St 49424 bulbs, residents who live on tulip lanes are SURROUNDING Colorful flowerbeds highlight this re-creation 2 encouraged to maintain the beds by of an 1800’s Dutch village. $ Î DOWNTOWN HOLLAND weeding them. 10,500 TULIPS PARK TOWNSHIP BEST ROUTES TO 8TH STREET 5 KOLLEN PARK AIRPORT WINDMILL 3 DOWNTOWN HOLLAND ISLAND GARDENS 24,000 TULIPS 6,900 TULIPS DOUGLAS 5 The downtown shopping district boasts 240 Kollen Park Dr. 49423 CURBSIDE TULIP LANES RIVER DIVISION beautiful plantings in beds and planters. Î Less than a mile from the heart of downtown DUNTON (See corresponding maps on pages 10-12) Holland is picturesque Kollen Park. This TULIP LANE BOULEVARDS OTTAWA BEACH RD. PARK multi-use park has a covered picnic shelter OTTAWA and picnic tables, a playscape for kids, a WINDOW ON THE WATERFRONT DOWNTOWN HOLLAND COUNTY TO ZEELAND, 4 fountain and statuary. Paved park paths TUNNEL PARK WINDOW ON THE 98,000 TULIPS FAIRGROUNDS WATERFRONT HUDSONVILLE & connect to the Heinz Waterfront Boardwalk HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS GRAND RAPIDS BR 110 Columbia Ave 49423 (DOG & SKATE PARKS) 4 along the Lake Macatawa shore. Kinderplaats Two short blocks from downtown, Window (Dutch meaning ‘everything that kids love’) 6TH ST. on the Waterfront offers walking paths H HOLLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL R. takes place here on Saturday and Sunday, PADNOS D 602 Michigan Ave O through tulips fields and beds. Life-size TRANSPORTATION G May 6-7; live music and fireworks occur on (616) 392.5141 7TH ST. CENTER A statues of 2 Dutch Immigrants, Cornelius & Saturday, May 13. Î SURROUNDING 2 IC DOWNTOWN H Geertje, are surrounded by an array of 9,000 LAKE 3 C TULIP PLANTINGS - 8TH STREET 8 tulips. You can take any of the paths towards 6 HOPE COLLEGE CAMPUS the Macatawa Marsh and continue on to SEE CORRESPONDING MAPS HOLLAND WASHINGTON 8TH ST. 6,000 TULIPS ★ Windmill Island Gardens. During Tulip Time, STATE PARK MACATAWA Clusters of tulips bloom throughout the TULIP PLANTING KOLLEN trolley tickets and trolley pick-up are also at campus, which is bounded by 10th & WAVERLY RD. WAVERLY this location. Î PARK 9TH ST.
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