Area Travel - AmericInn^® of Traverse City, MI

While staying at our Traverse City hotel, you are minutes away from the historic downtown shopping district, award winning wineries and micro-breweries, beaches, hiking and more!

Area Attractions and Activities

Dennos Museum  - Located on the Northwestern Michigan College campus, it features both the visual and performing arts. The museum eatures three rotating exhibition galleries, a sculpture court, a "hands-on" Discovery Gallery, a gallery of Inuit art from the museum’s permanent collection, a 32-seat video theater, a community room and a museum store. The Milliken Auditorium showcases the performing arts, including theater, dance and music.
Northwestern Michigan College
Phone: 231-995-1055
Distance: 4 miles from hotel

Turtle Creek Casino - The casino features over 1,200 slot machines from penny to $100 denominations. Play your favorite table games including Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Four Card Poker, Let It Ride, Roulette and Craps. Open 24-hours year-round; it's always time to play at Turtle Creek Casino!
Address: M-72 East, Willimsburg, Michigan
Distance: 8 miles from hotel
Phone: 231-534-8888 

Pirates Cove Adventure Park - Pirate's Cove, "the Original Adventure Golf," offers an unequaled miniature golf experience! The adventures and legends of infamous pirates come to life in our award-winning theme park settings. Putt your way through caves, over footbridges, and under cascading waterfalls, all amidst a fun-filled atmosphere of natural wonders, extraordinary landscaping, and enchanting pirate lore.
Distance: Adjacent to hotel
Phone: 231-938-9599

The Music House - A one-of-a-kind collection of rare antique musical instruments and music- making machines, from 1870 through 1930. A stroll through the Music House Museum is like a walk back in time... Enjoy an hour-long musical tour that will explain/demonstrate the unique instruments: Belgian dance organ, nickelodeons, music boxes, pipe organs and the Wurlitzer Theater Organ.
Address: M-72 East
Distance: 6 miles from hotel
Phone: 231-938-9300 

Festivals

• National Cherry Festival Annual Festival - July - Founded in 1926, the mission of the National Cherry Festival is to celebrate & promote cherries. It also serves to promote tourism and community involvement, and to enhance the economic, entertainment, and cultural interests of the Grand Traverse region. Every year more than 500,000 attendees enjoy the National Cherry Festival, which is now in its 82nd year. Families can enjoy many kinds of activities from cherry pit spitting and pie eating contests, to the Grand Royale Parade in which the newly crowned Cherry Queen greets the crowds.
• Traverse City Film Festival Annual Festival  - August - The Traverse City Film Festival is an annual film festival held every late July through early August in Traverse City, Michigan. The festival was created as an annual event in 2005 to help “save one of America's few indigenous art forms—the cinema. The mission of the Festival is to show movies representing excellence in filmmaking, particularly those rare independent films and documentaries by both noted and new filmmakers, that do not receive mainstream distribution. The Traverse City Film Festival is a non-profit organization, and is funded by businesses, community groups and individuals, plus ticket sales for various events. The Festival is headed by a committee of Michigan area filmmakers, writers, and creative professionals.

Shopping

• Grand Traverse Mall - Corner of South Airport & US 31 South  - 8 miles from hotel - Enjoy terrific shopping at over 100 of your favorite stores including Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy's, TJ Maxx, Aeropostale, Pier 1 Imports, American Eagle and Victoria's Secret! Grab a bite at any of our great restaurants and catch the latest hit at our 9-screen cinema. You can also take a break and let the kids loose in the soft-play area or take a spin on the antique carousel in the Food Court!
• Downtown Traverse City Historic Shopping District - 5 miles from hotel - More than 100 shops fill the historic buildings. We have shops that feature the latest in clothing and home furnishing as well as a farmer's market, operates the City Opera House and downtown's historic cultural facility. Focusing its attention on marketing and promotion, the DTCA oversees all communication pieces including a monthly newsletter, quarterly newspaper article, monthly broadsheet, various promotional brochures, and a downtown web site. In addition, the organization supervises over 20 annual events downtown.