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- KeyLime Cove corners market on convenience
- Because KeyLime Cove is relatively new -- it opened in February 2008 -- the designers were able to critique already-existing water parks and copy or improve on the them. Hence, the smart layout and attentiveness of staff members make navigation a breeze. Best of all, it's only 45 miles from Milwaukee.
- Milwaukee Staycation: Milwaukee Art Museum
- Who needs expensive hotels and hours spent on airline layovers when you can save a few dollars and opt for a Milwaukee Staycation. Throughout the summer, keep an eye out for OnMilwaukee.com's ongoing Staycation articles with the low-down on the key tourism sights in Milwaukee. This installment features the Milwaukee Art Museum.
- Old World Wisconsin revives history
- Imagine stepping into a world where people cooked the food they grew on wood stoves, made their own soap and sewed all of their clothes. Such an experience is available just 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee at Old World Wisconsin, the country's largest outdoor museum of rural life.
- Road trip: A day in Chicago
- Don't let the big buildings fool you, Chicago is a perfect day-out vacation. The key is to make your outing a surgical strike. Don't try to do too much in a single day and do some basic planning before you go.
- Road Trip: Iowa City
- Wisconsinites will find Iowa's landscape familiar and welcoming, especially the vast rolling farm fields and quaint rural towns along I-80 on the way into town. But the "American Heartland" isn't all cows and curds; the state has several metropolises, including Iowa City.
- Push summer back a month
- It makes sense, really. Even though we all think summer runs from June through August, that's not particularly accurate here in the upper Midwest. With temperatures hovering in the low 60s this week -- and it's already June 9 -- it doesn't really feel very summery, does it?
- Welcome to Alterras
- One of our favorite Milwaukee-isms here in the OnMilwaukee.com editorial office is the Brew City penchant for adding an "s" to the names of local businesses that don't really have them. As in, let's have a coffee at Alterra's.
- Live blog exclusive: in-flight chat with "Colbert Report's" Mark Malkoff
- We're doing something this afternoon that's never been attempted in Milwaukee: a live blog and chat from 38,000 feet, using AirTran's new wi-fi service to post an article en route from Milwaukee to Atlanta. We're speaking with comedian Mark Malkoff, who you might have seen on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."
- Milwaukee on two wheels: Brew City Bike Tours
- With her new Brew City Bike Tours, avid bike tourist Kate Rawsthorne leads groups of 10-15 on three-hour trips that explore the different sectors of Milwaukee's unique offerings: beer, food and history.
- 2009 Summer Festival Guide
- The City of Festivals has one definitive summer festival guide, and it's right here: previews, blogs, schedules, unique features and more. Dive in and enjoy the great Milwaukee summer.
- Road trip: Marinette County
- With recently completed upgrades on Highways 41 and 141, it's an easy drive to Marinette County, the waterfall capital of Wisconsin. Just bear right as you pass through Green Bay, and you'll be up there in about an hour.
- The Travel Channel wants your suggestions
- Where are your favorite "off the map" Wisconsin destinations? Those places with character and personality that are not going to make a travel guide but someone like the Travel Channel would love to feature.
- Historic bar adds roadhouse concerts
- Leo and Leona's, the historic bar in southwest Wisconsin, has come all the way back. Early this month String Ties, a popular regional band, played the kickoff concert in the bar's renovated roadhouse hall.
- Milwaukee Staycation: The Milwaukee County Zoo
- Milwaukee might not be in the tropics, jungle or rainforest but you can get a feel for exotic wildlife without leaving town. The Milwaukee County Zoo, 10001 W. Bluemound Rd., has been a center for animal education and exhilaration since it opened over a century ago.
- Hotel Metro honored by Traveler magazine
- Hotel Metro, 411 E. Mason St., has been named by the editors of National Geographic Traveler magazine as one of the "129 Hotels We Love." The list appears in the second annual "Stay List" and features properties in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
- Wollersheim cultivates award-winning libations
- The Wollersheim Winery, nestled on the bank of the Wisconsin River in Sauk City, near Prairie du Sac, is a family-owned and operated historic site that produces 1 million bottles of wine every year, including the popular Prairie Fumé. Tours of the beautiful building and vineyards are offered almost every day of the year and include a wine tasting.
- Colonial Williamsburg at The Delafield Hotel
- The Delafield Hotel, along with Milwaukee's Hotel Metro and the new Iron Horse Hotel, received top honors from National Geographic Traveler as one of only 15 hotels in the Midwest worthy of a traveler's choice.
- Chicago's favorite casino is in Milwaukee
- Chicago Tribune reporter Jason George analyzed nine casinos within 100 miles of Downtown Chicago. He also ranked them, listing them "in order of (his) affection." His favorite was in Milwaukee.
- Growing Power plants change in Chicago
- In addition to Allen's epitomized two acre Milwaukee urban farm, he expanded projects to include three separate operations in Chicago, Ill. Each project, emphasizing a different aspect of community gardening, sustainability and neighborhood redevelopment, exemplifies the methods used in the original Milwaukee farm.
- Sundara offers sanctuary of relaxation, rejuvenation
- Let's just get one thing straight: a trip to The Wisconsin Dells doesn't have to include water slides. It can, in fact, include so much pampering and relaxation that the sound of bellowing children -- and the very thought of a water slide -- is a hazy memory. Sundara Inn and Spa can make this happen.
- Promoting Wisconsin areas through sports
- The La Crosse Area Sports Commission was formed a couple years ago, but kicked off its events phase with a February banquet honoring athletes and sports figures. Baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew was the main speaker.
- Relaxing respite in 1000 Pines Lake Home
- Located on Little St. Germain Lake, 1000 Pines Lake Home is incredible. The property includes two buildings: a main vacation home and an adjacent guest house located over a free standing garage. Originally built in the 1960s, a two story addition and remodel plus the guest house were completed 10 years ago.
- First look and listen: new Hyatt and new Favre drink
- I'm here to tell you that as part of the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee's massive $19 million makeover, the wicker chairs, outdated designs and frumpy restaurant are long, long gone.
- All aboard the eco-friendly Lake Express ferry
- The Lake Express ferry launches Friday, May 1, but before it officially sets sail, it welcomes your aboard to kick off the 2009 travel season at a community open house this Saturday, April 25 from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Lake Express Milwaukee terminal, 2300 S. Lincoln Memorial Dr.
- The perk of Wolf Pack pancakes
- I used to go "up north" for the hiking, swimming, boating and fishing. Now, I can honestly say, I love all that but the pancakes are the trip's greatest perk.
- Chetek's stunningly relaxing Canoe Bay offers the highest end retreat
- If you've never heard of the ultra-luxurious Canoe Bay resort, don't feel too badly. The one-of-a-kind getaway in Chetek, about 300 miles northwest of Milwaukee, doesn't do much marketing to our area. But let me spill the secret of Canoe Bay: if you have the means, you won't regret a weekend getaway in this most private and secluded of properties.
- Third Ward tour traces Milwaukee's ghost stories
- Allison Jornlin isn't sure she believes in ghosts. In reference to the topic, she calls herself a Fortean, a term named for the American writer and researcher Charles Fort who cataloged curiosities and confounded scientists with anomalies they couldn't explain. Essentially, she's neither a strict believer nor non-believer.
- The mindful Metro
- What's a girl to do when she wants to combine a night away from home, while still making sure the paper gets recycled? In Milwaukee, there's no better place for an eco-friendly "staycation" than Hotel Metro, 411 E. Mason St.
- Livin' Costa Rica's pura vida
- Pura Vida -- the term synonymous with the Central American country Costa Rica -- tells you all need to know. It's a pure life and it's the only way of life for Costa Ricans; more commonly and affectionately called Ticos or Ticas. The country is a popular destination for budget travelers, students and thrill seekers, and after visiting, I can see why.
- Put Portland on your road trip map
- Portland has been called Milwaukee's West Coast sister city many times. The recipient of a constant influx of Wisconsin natives over the last 15 years, there's hardly a neighborhood you can visit without running into someone from the Midwest.
- Hart's book opens window on Door County
- Some might say nobody knows a place like a native, but in a location like Door County, "local" might be harder to define. Certainly, someone like Virginia native and Minnesota resident John Fraser Hart fits the bill. After all, he's spent countless days in Door County over the past 50 years.
- International Downtown Association bringing annual meeting to Milwaukee
- The 55th Annual IDA conference will run Sept. 11-15. Events and sessions are being scheduled all around Downtown, but the home base for the conference will be the Midwest Airlines Center.
- A weekend away in Ashland
- At a distance of 350 miles, Ashland is just about as far away from Milwaukee as you can get without leaving the state. It'll take you a good six-or-so-hour drive to get there, but the drive is gorgeous in any season and the trip gives you a good opportunity to take in the vast expanse of Wisconsin.
- Portesi's pizza in good old Wisconsin Rapids
- In a forthcoming edition of Lake Effect, NPR's Dan Harmon and I discuss pizzerias -- what makes a good pizzeria, what makes a good pizza?
- There's something fishy from Wisconsin in Portland
- Over the weekend, we checked out Dana and Greg Boyce's Hawthorne Fish House; serving up fish and chips, Packers Fries and deep-fried cheese curds. Greg Boyce, originally from Green Bay, found an empty niche market for traditional Wisconsin fare.
- Golfing Arizona's finest courses, 2009
- The 2009 edition of Phoenix area golf getaways is a bit shorter this year than last, as a jam-packed Brewers Spring Training schedule didn't allow for every waking minute to pursue par under pleasant but overcast skies. We did hit Grayhawk, the Phoenician and Kierland, however, and all three are all spectacular courses.
- A basketball fan's guide to Boise, Idaho
- Although most college basketball fans in Wisconsin probably never think about Boise, it is about to become the center of their universe.
- Milwaukee's best make-out spots
- OnMilwaukee.com isn't suggesting you and your sweetheart get spunky in public. However, it's Sex Week, the perfect time to spontaneously -- or not so spontaneously -- sneak away for a smooch or two.
- My life in porn
- Don't let the headline mislead you. I am not, and never have been, a porn star. I haven't even been the pizza girl who ends up in the right "G" spot at just the right time. But, I have dipped my toes into the shallow end of the porn pool.
- Milwaukee's Kopp continues westward expansion with Phoenix's Hanny's
- Most Milwaukeeans conjure images of butter burgers and frozen custard with they think of local restaurateur Karl Kopp. Now Phoenicians can add Hanny's, 40 N. 1st St., to the list of Kopp's dynasty, along with AZ 88 in Scottsdale and Bar 89 in New York City.
- Tan, somewhat rested and very ready to be home
- Another Spring Training trip is in the books, and I'm pleased to report it was a good one. In some ways, five days are not nearly enough to see everything you need to see in the Phoenix area. But in other ways, it's long enough to really miss home and everything that comes with it, and I'm eagerly awaiting seeing my family in a few hours.
- If you have the means ...
- This trip keeps getting better. Yesterday afternoon, we checked into the Intercontinental Montelucia, which is, quite literally, the nicest hotel I've ever visited.
- Spring ... and a man's thoughts turn to the zoo
- Over the past couple years, I've done a major about-face regarding a major institution. In my adult life, I visited the Milwaukee County Zoo exactly once that I can recall. Until I had a kid.
- Slowing down and soaking in the desert sun
- Yesterday turned out to be one of those perfect vacation days I dream about in the middle of January. We had few things on our agenda, so that allowed us time to soak in the scene without rushing from destination to destination.
- Hope springs eternal
- It was another fun but hectic day in Arizona, and I expect today will be the same. It's a lot of running around, but I'm hardly complaining. This is a life I could get used to.
- Back in the saddle in Scottsdale
- It only took one whiff of that fragrant Arizona air -- it smells really different here -- for the travel stress to evaporate. Life is good. This is my 12th annual Spring Training trip, and I must be more giddy than I thought I'd be, since my eyes popped open this morning at 7 a.m., after only six short hours of sleep.
- Insider tips for enjoying spring training in Phoenix
- Earlier today, OnMilwaukee.com publisher Andy Tarnoff posted a comprehensive guide to spring training in Phoenix. Here is another collection of tips, gleaned over nearly 15 years of Cactus League visits.
- Windy City trekking with a toddler
- In lieu of grander vacations, my compact family has created something of a tradition of lightning-fast visits to the Windy City, based around hotel rate sales. Even 24 hours in downtown Chicago can be pricey, but with a little careful planning, an action-packed weekend down south doesn't have to break the bank.
- Tourism CEO moving back to San Francisco
- Doug Neilson, president and CEO of VISIT Milwaukee, has informed the executive committee of the board of directors that he intends to resign his post when his current contract ends Dec. 31.
- Doc Powell had strong state ties
- Some readers might recognize Doc Powell as a contemporary jazz and RandB guitarist. Those with more of a sense of history will probably be familiar with the name as the "blood brother" of Buffalo Bill Cody and through Wild West tales.
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