Registration
Caroline is available by appointment for a fee, in addition to the FREE tours listed on the homepage. Accordingly, to arrange for a running, walking, step-on bus tour or presentation at a date/time convenient for you, please contact carcook900@gmail.com.
Occasionally, a group tour event requires registration which might be listed below. In that case, online registration may close 12 hours prior to a scheduled event. However, please email Caroline within the 12 hour window to doublecheck availability.
Grand Rapidians believe that winter is a season to be LOVED, celebrated and enjoyed outside, so DowntownGrandRapidsInc organizes World of Winter: A Festival of Frozen Fun each February during Valentine’s Day week. This annual icy extravaganza includes ice skating, sledding, skiing, snowboarding, ice games like Human Hungry Hungry Hippo and Valent-ICE sculptures. The magnificent ice statues are created by The Food Network and local champion ice carvers and business owners, Randy Finch and Derek Maxfield. Over 50 incredible, unique sculptures are on display downtown during the festival…some life-size, some interactive, all lighted and the selection is different each year. Bundle up, then walk or run with your local guide, Caroline Cook, to learn more about sub-zero art and the intriguing back stories.
Tour meets at Rosa Parks Circle.
A FREE seven-week series of 45 minute walks through downtown Grand Rapids. Participants will enjoy a unique tour each week, traversing the sidewalks while focusing on a theme, narrated by Caroline.
For walkers who complete all seven events, they will be rewarded with a $50 gift card to a downtown merchant of their choice.
The walks will meet in the lobby of the JW Marriott on Wednesdays at noon.
Questions? caroline@grandrapidsrunningtours.com
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
During Laughfest 2019, journey through the history of entertainment venues and leisure activities in Grand Rapids from old vaudeville to today’s arenas, theaters and stages. Local tour guide, Caroline Cook, will narrate as you move through downtown, telling the stories of amusement through the ages in Grand Rapids in this specially created, one-hour tour. Learn while you burn!
Registration is necessary.
Quarterly, we plan to meet outside of the historic Masonic Center, 233 Fulton St. E, Grand Rapids, 49503, on the ground floor of the FREE parking ramp. We’ll run for 45 minutes through downtown Grand Rapids, with seasonally appropriate tour narration by Caroline Cook, owner of Grand Rapids Running Tours, then move inside the Armentality Movement Arts Center studio with owner, Laura Armenta, for 45 minutes of restorative yoga. The event is limited to 20 participants…pre-registration is necessary.
Combine a trail run with yoga (RUNGA!) and you will experience exercise bliss. We meet at the Visitor Center of Blandford Nature Center, then hit the trails after a brief lesson on the history of BNC and its buildings, beasts (friendly), and bark. Our 45 minute run will take us to the adjacent Highlands for 45 minutes of refreshing yoga. What a delightful way to begin your Saturday in July!