Registration
Caroline is available by appointment for a fee, in addition to occasional 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.
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!
Heritage Hill Hauntings
Are you surprised that there are ghosts on Heritage Hill? Don’t be. The stately homes of Heritage Hills may reflect the grace, dignity and formality of another era, but because most of these Victorian dwellings were built in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, ghost stories abound. Tenacious and playful spirits are still hanging around. Some of the accounts are scary, some silly, some believable, some not. Some are legends from long ago, some are recent. We will explore this beautiful neighborhood while your guide tells spooky tales that have been passed on to us by either present or once-occupants of the houses.