Summer means adventure—getting out there and experiencing all the world has to offer.

• Outdoor Fun
• Summer Fun
• Nature

You can never be fully prepared for your first Electric Forest. You can study a dozen guides, and buy every piece of gear recommended on every checklist. You still won’t really know what it feels like until you’re in the heart of the forest. 

• Electric Forest
• Festivals
• Web Exclusive

Our guide to events, goings-on and things to do in Grand Rapids and all around West Michigan for the months of May and June.

• Festivals
• Summer Fun

The FIFA World Cup 2026 is here through July 19, and with dozens of matches left to be played, you have plenty of chances to catch a game at a watch party in West Michigan.

• Web Exclusive
• Sports

It’s the perfect season to enjoy all of the delightful towns and cities along the West Michigan lakeshore.

• South Haven
• Holland
• Saugatuck
• Summer Fun
• Travel Guide
• Fennville

Technically, summer has the most days of any season, but it never quite feels like that. The bright, toasty months pass by in a flash, which is why planning ahead is so important.

• Summer Fun
• Nature

Celebration Cinema Studio Park and Downtown Grand Rapids Inc. (DGRI) are bringing free outdoor movies back to the Studio Park Piazza this summer. This year's Sunset Cinema series is presented by Mercantile Bank.

• movies in the park
• Studio Park
• Summer Series
• Outdoor Movies

The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) invites the community to enjoy the second year of Thursdays on the Terrace, a free summer series featuring art, music, food and community in downtown Grand Rapids.

• Grand Rapids Art Museum
• Summer Fun

Electric Forest is just around the corner, and limited passes remain. This annual music and arts festival in brings tens of thousands of people from around the world to the woods of Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury. 

• Electric Forest
• Festivals
• Summer Fun

Get Out is Your Monthly Guide to What’s Great in the Great Outdoors. I’ve lived in West Michigan for just short of 40 years and, through all its changes, what has always been here are the green spaces. I spent time at Johnson Park in my 20s disc golfing, though I was never very good and often just tagged along. 

• Get Out
• Summer Fun
• Nature
• Web Exclusive
• Friends of Grand Rapids Parks