GUARDIANS OF GA’HOOLE DAVID LETTERMAN RAINBOW BRIDGE MICHAEL GRAVES CONNER PRAIRIE Indy-born author Kathryn Lasky’s SCHOLARSHIP Meet at this bridge in This Indy-born Learn to throw a fantasy series follows the The very funny former Late Broad Ripple Village for architect is famous tomahawk at the adventures of a barn owl. Show host, born in Indy, protests, art fairs, parades, for designing Lenape Camp in sponsors a scholarship and an annual rubber whimsical home this living history EAGLE for telecommunications duck race. BROAD RIPPLE goods for Target. museum. CREEK students at Ball PARK State University. EAGLE EAGLE CREEK CREEK Find hiking trails, RESERVOIR canoe rentals, and AMERICAN SIGN even a Tarzan swing LANGUAGE course through the English and American Sign forest canopy! Language are Indiana’s two BUTLER UNIVERSITY’S official languages. This is HINKLE FIELDHOUSE how you sign the letter “B.” The climax of the basketball EAGLE CREEK movie Hoosiers was filmed here, A DAY IN INDIANAPOLIS with local students appearing in INDIANAPOLIS the scene. MUSEUM OF ART WELCOME TO THE CROSSROADS OF AMERICA The colors of local artist 9 AM Enjoy a breakfast picnic in Holiday Park Robert Indiana’s LOVE MERIDIAN-KESSLER among the grand remains of statues from a New print were inspired by the York skyscraper, torn down in the 1950s. sign on the gas station where his father worked. 10 AM Take a step back in time at the James FUNKY BONES CROWN HILL CEMETERY Whitcomb Riley Museum Home, where the Characters from is home to one of the city’s “Hoosier Poet” wrote “Little Orphant Annie.” pring, summer, winter, fall—in this Hoosier’s book, it’s always John Green’s novel highest natural points, and KEKLA MAGOON REGINALD WAYNE MICHAEL PACE the tomb of the “Children’s a good time to visit Indiana’s capital city. Indy is not only the The Fault in Our b.1980 “REGGIE” MILLER b.1946 11 AM Kiss the yard of bricks marking the start and Stars picnic on this Poet” James Whitcomb Riley. The award-winning b.1965 The former assistant finish line at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: a largest city in Indiana, but it’s also the second largest city in the skeleton sculpture in GARFIELD THE CAT author of The Rock Reggie played his entire chief for the Delaware tradition of racecar drivers since 1996. Midwest, and the 14th largest in the nation. Indeed, Indiana’s many the Fairbanks Art and 38TH ST. The illustrator Jim and the River grew NBA career with the Tribe of Indians works Nature Park. up in Fort Wayne Indiana Pacers and held at Conner Prairie, where Davis, who lives in LESTER HORTON people are what give the city its flair. nearby Albany, based and once worked for a record for the most his great-grandmother 12 PM Cycle through White River State Park to see This influential CORN ON THE COB his lasagna-loving the Girl Scouts. 3-point field goals. established a trading modern The Tent: a sculpture by Donald Lipski, which is a In the heart of the feline on the farm cats post in the 1800s. In spring, locals hit Conner Prairie, where the 1859 Balloon Voyage choreographer, born colorful play on the Indy 500’s checkered flag. nation’s corn belt, the of his childhood home. can take visitors 350 feet over this interactive history park. Summer kicKs FALL CREEKFALL PKWY CREEK DR. in Indianapolis, was area produces some ST. MERIDIAN inspired by Native off with the Indianapolis 500: the world’s largest single-day sporting of the tastiest corn 1 PM Make a regional speciality: pound a pork in the U.S. American tribal tenderloin, bread it, serve it on a bun with a pickle, WHITE RIVER dances. event, where you can see 33 expert drivers race cars at over 200 miles and voila: a tenderloin sandwich! INDIANAPOLIS per hour. Come fall, you’ll want to toast poet James Whitcomb Riley as CHILDREN’S MOTOR SPEEDWAY MUSEUM This Marmon Wasp KEY FACTS 2 PM Visit the Artspark—the 12-acre garden of you enjoy a parade and local crafts at the Riley Festival in Greenfield. A huge Brachiosaurus race car won the first the Indianapolis Art Center. You can take a selfie peers into the front Winter warriors welcome the season by sledding hills all over, from Fort Indy 500 in 1911, in INDIANA of the world’s largest STATE in front of John McNaughton’s Twisted House: a 6 hours, 42 minutes, Harrison State Park to Hummel Park. And any time of year is a good time children’s museum. lopsided cedar house whose roof hits the ground! going at 75 mph. NAMED FOR NICKNAMES to spend a day at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS The state name plus • Crossroads of America 3 PM Ogle a room of pickled brains and vintage MONUMENT polis, Greek for “city” • Circle City medical tools at the Medical History Museum, to Celebrate the area by reading a book by a local, like J. Patrick Lewis’s • Indy This was the first U.S. see what lab work was like before germ theory. STATE PIE: SUGAR CREAM PIE • Naptown World Rat Day, Bill Peet’s The Gnats of Knotty Pine, or Barbara Shoup’s Shaker communities in the MADAME WALKER THEATRE monument dedicated FOUNDED IN This National Historic Everything You Want. THE RILEY HOSPITAL 1800s made this dessert with to the common 1821 BEST PLACE TO . 4 PM Pat the bark of the Indiana Statehouse butter, maple syrup, vanilla, Landmark is named for the soldier, and has FOR CHILDREN See the “Dragon King of sycamore tree, grown from one of 500 seeds taken and cream when they were self-made millionaire Madam become an icon of hosts an annual C. J. Walker, who was a STATE POPULATION Hogwarts” (the skull of to the moon and back during the Apollo 14 mission. Cancer Center Prom— out of fresh fruit. Indianapolis. cosmetics tycoon. 6,633,053 a Dracorex hogwartsia young patients can dinosaur): the Children’s INDIANA AV. 5 PM Stroll the 100 acres of the Virginia B. choose their own EITELJORG MUSEUM Museum complimentary OF AMERICAN INDIANS CITY POPULATION Fairbanks Art and Nature Park, one of the largest MUG-N-BUN gowns and tuxedos. AND WESTERN ART 853,173 museum art parks in the country. DRIVE-IN BRAGGING RIGHTS This museum houses a Carhops here Indianapolis’s Wonder Bread large collection of Native serve onion rings CITY AREA was the first ma jor company 6 PM In summer, pitch a blanket for an outdoor American art and crafts, and homemade 361 square miles to distribute sliced bread, in concert at Eagle Creek Park, one of the U.S.’s such as traditional Iroquois root beer on a tray DOWNTOWN the 1930s INDIANAPOLIS ZOO baskets. KURT VONNEGUT largest municipal parks. that attaches to WASHINGTON ST. A’LELIA BUNDLES TWYLA THARP ROBERT INDIANA Here you’ll find the world’s MEMORIAL LIBRARY TALLEST BUILDING your car window. A banned books exhibit b.1952 b.1941 b.1928 largest orangutan center; Chase Tower: LOCAL LINGO 7 PM In August, grab dinner at the State Fair: start looks at the dangers of This award-winning This Emmy Award- The pop artist well these primates are highly 811 feet (49 stories) Start your engines with grilled corn and finish up with an elephant ear censorship and celebrates journalist is the great winning modern known for his LOVE intelligent and have a (It’s time to race) (fried dough doused in cinnamon sugar). the Hoosier author great granddaughter of dancer grew up on image was born 7-foot arm span! DUCKPIN BOWLING who championed free the U.S.’s first female self- a farm in nearby Robert Clark and This popular Indy sport speech. CAN YOU FIND? 8 PM Flip through 50 Cities by author Gabrielle made millionaire: Madam Portland. renamed himself after uses short pins and 5 race flags C. J. Walker. his home state. softball-sized balls Balkan, who grew up by the State Fair and 42 without finger holes. graduated from Broad Ripple High School. 43.