San Manuel Stadium
Indiana’s newest state park, Prophetstown is located where the Tippecanoe River meets the Wabash near the town of Battle Ground northeast of Lafayette. The park’s landscape has been shaped by ice from glaciers, moving water, fire and human hands that helped maintain the vast tall prairie grass. Native American people hunted and lived along the two rivers for thousands of years.
San Bernardino National Forest
With hundreds of miles of nationally recognized hiking trails, seven designated Wildernesses, 42 campgrounds, four winter recreation resorts, seven wild and scenic rivers, the two tallest mountains in Southern California, and one of the best destinations for off-highway vehicle riding, there is more than a lifetime of activities to do on the San Bernardino National Forest. Which adventure will you choose next?
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art
The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art has accumulated a collection of close to 1,500 objects focusing on ceramics, ancient and contemporary art; the largest of which includes some 700 artifacts encompassing over 4,000 years of Egyptian history. With nearly 6,000 square feet of gallery space, a portion of the museum’s permanent collection is on continuous display as well as a dynamic schedule of visiting exhibitions. RAFFMA hosts an average of 10,000 visitors annually.
First Original McDonald’s Museum
Laura Ann Fry was a native of White County and was a practicing potter formerly associated with Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati until she moved to Lafayette to teach as a Professor in the Industrial Arts Department at Purdue University in 1896. In 1906 she was appointed head of the department; the first woman to be so named. In 1982, the organization received accreditation by the American Alliance of Museums, and changed the name to the Greater Lafayette Museum of Art. In 2000, the name of the organization became the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, to bring “Art” to the forefront
