Things To Do

Located in Battle Creek, the Binder Park Zoo is open through late fall with a special Zoo Boo Halloween event.

The Black Arts & Cultural Center develops an array of programming including a theatre program and playwriting contest.

Center Stage presents live family theatre at reasonable prices encouraging people of all ages and talent levels to be a part of its shows.

Just a short walk from the Inn, Comensoli's offers traditional Italian food at reasonable prices. Check out their fresh pasta dishes like the wild mushroom ravioli, or the build your own pasta dish. The Salmon Provencal gets good reviews, but we're still working our way through the pasta dishes.  Live music on weekends by guitarist and songwriter - Paul Larson.

Located on the corner of Vine and Locust with an eclectic cuisine and a menu that changes almost daily. We’ve never had a bad meal – vegetarian, fresh fish, burgers – it’s all good. Open Tues - Saturday 5pm -10pm.

Voted #1 for pizza in the Kalamazoo Gazette’s Reader’s Choice contest - and a good Italian restaurant to boot. Their pepperoni for adults pizza is especially tasty – and they deliver to the Inn!

The Theatre Arts Department of Kalamazoo College presents a season of plays ranging from traditional to outrageous cult offerings. Festival Playhouse also produces a Student Playwriting Festival of readings and performances of original plays by Kalamazoo College students.

Open daily May through October, the Museum includes eight historic barns, a 1930’s service station, three miles of paved road occasionally travelled by one of the villages vintage cars.

Not really a zoo – but filled with family attractions, and a small warplane museum. Admission is free through December 31, 2009.

From 1929 to the present The Kalamazoo Civic Theatre has been at the forefront of community theatres in America. From its beginning it has been praised by the public and its peers as one of the outstanding examples of just what can be done with a "Civic" or community theatre.