10 Iconic Milwaukee, Wisconsin Locations

Milwaukee, Wisconsin has seemingly no scarcity of indoor and out of doors choices for households highway tripping by way of the Midwest—a lot so, the Large Metropolis on the Lake stays excessive on our listing of “should see” metro areas in America. Whereas we’ve written extensively about Milwaukee in previous years, we visited town earlier this month and have compiled this new High 10 listing of iconic Milwaukee locations to get you began planning your personal trip.

Kopp’s Frozen Custard

Web site: https://kopps.com/

For the whole Wisconsin dairy expertise, you must cross smooth serve off your listing and make the improve to custard. In Milwaukee, Kopp’s Frozen Custard is the long-lasting place to eat custard and be seen. The town has three places (one other is pictured on this story). We hit the Greenfield location this journey – there’s nothing just like the backdrop of the city waterfall on a sizzling summer season evening.

Kopp’s Custard Greenfield

Miss Katie’s Diner

Web site: https://www.misskatiesdiner.com/

Miss Katie’s Diner is the place it is best to have breakfast no less than one morning. We love this retro 50s diner on the perimeter of the Marquette College Campus (discover extra pictures on this story). With rising meals costs all over the place, Miss Katie’s nonetheless feels inexpensive. For those who go, pop into the principle eating room and see pictures of Michelle Obama, Invoice Clinton, and different native and not-so-local celebrities.

Miss Katie’s Diner

Colectivo Espresso Lakefront

Web site: https://colectivocoffee.com/cafes/lakefront

Inbuilt 1888, the historic Milwaukee River Flushing Station is now house to Colectivo Lakefront, a singular cafe brewing espresso with artisan pastries and sandwiches. Excellently located on the intersection of Lafayette Hill Drive and North Lincoln Memorial Drive, Colectivo Lakefront is a superb place to start out or finish your lakefront adventuring. Within the hotter months, watch boats come into the Milwaukee Yacht Membership from the skin seating space. Earlier than you go, make sure to discover the pump room and the revolutionary gear that when pumped greater than 500 million gallons of water into the Milwaukee River every day.

Colectivo Espresso Lakefront

The SafeHouse Milwaukee

Web site: https://www.safe-house.com/

The SafeHouse restaurant and bar stays on the prime of the listing for Milwaukee’s top-secret spy finds. Situated downtown close to the Milwaukee River, the principle entrance is down a aspect alley close to the historic Pabst Theater (trace: we’ve uploaded a photograph of the doorway on this story). We’ve frequented the SafeHouse extra instances than we will depend up to now twenty-five years at all times uncover one thing new and noteworthy; this time round was a full-building scavenger hunt full with sidebar magic present.

SafeHouse Bar & Restaurant Milwaukee

E-book Your Keep in Milwaukee

Whereas visiting Milwaukee, we loved the clear and trendy (and conveniently central downtown location) Cambria Lodge Milwaukee. Youngsters will love the swimming pool. Mother and father will love the bar and snacks within the foyer. Or use this interactive map to discover a place good on your circle of relatives:

Mitchell Park Domes

Web site: https://county.milwaukee.gov/EN/Parks/Discover/The-Domes

On a couple of event, Milwaukee’s Mitchell Park Domes have saved my psychological well being within the depths of the darkest of Wisconsin winter days. Guests to the county park expertise three totally different climates-tropical, desert and floral-in three totally different beehive-shaped glass domes that span 140-feet in diameter and 85-feet in top. A landmark on the Milwaukee skyline, it’s onerous to overlook this fashionable year-round indoor/out of doors backyard attraction.

Mitchell Park Domes

Harley-Davidson Museum

Web site: https://www.harley-davidson.com/us/en/museum.html

Nestled on a peninsula of land the place the Menomonee and Milwaukee Rivers converge, the Harley-Davidson Museum is a stone’s throw from town’s Historic Third Ward, Walker’s Level and Downtown Milwaukee. Celebrating 120-years this 12 months, Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson stays some of the fascinating bike manufacturers on the planet. Learn our latest and full evaluate of the Harley-Davidson Museum on this story.

Harley-Davidson Museum

Organ Piper Pizza

Web site: https://www.organpiperpizza.com/

Ranked excessive in our 10 Wonderful Locations in Wisconsin story, Organ Piper Pizza is 100% definitely worth the brief drive into the Milwaukee suburbs. Delighting and entertaining patrons since 1976, the Organ Piper expertise is as a lot about having fun with pizza is it’s listening to the sounds of the Mighty Wurlitzer, one in every of a handful of classic theatre pipe organs scattered across the nation. Patrons dine in the principle eating room and search for their order quantity to gentle up on the old school marquis (there’s a small arcade room within the higher stage seating space). As you get pleasure from your pizza, the particular deal with is the musical efficiency and interactive parts linked to the organ keys (cymbals chime, dolls flip, geese quack, and an enormous American flag drops throughout patriotic instances). Depart your music requests within the fish bowl subsequent to the organ participant’s bench.

Organ Piper Pizza, Milwaukee

Milwaukee Brewers Stadium and Recreation

Web site: https://www.mlb.com/brewers

Baseball. Bratwurst. Beer. It doesn’t get extra Milwaukee than a Brewer’s baseball sport. By no means fear a couple of rain delay at Brewer’s Stadium; the retractable roof opens and closes with the climate at American Household Discipline. Fireworks launch and Bernie Brewer takes a experience down the yellow slide when the Brewer’s hit a house run. Buy your parking ticket along with your tickets and save $5 within the course of.

North Level Lighthouse and Museum

Web site: https://northpointlighthouse.org/

Featured in our Lake Michigan Circle Tour story, the North Level Lighthouse and Museum brings you into the center of a number of the most prosperous of Milwaukee’s neighborhoods. A key cease within the metropolis’s picturesque Lake Park, the lighthouse was inbuilt 1888 and is listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations. A maritime-themed museum open to the general public, guests can guide an academic tour upfront and profit from their go to.

North Level Lighthouse and Museum

Ghromann Museum on the Milwaukee College of Engineering

Web site: https://www.msoe.edu/grohmann-museum/

Within the coronary heart of the Milwaukee College of Engineering campus, The Grohmann Museum homes an intensive assortment of art work devoted to the evolution of human work. Spanning three-stories and a rooftop sculpture backyard, Hosing over 1500 European and American work, sculptures and works on paper that depict numerous types of work, the museum was named in honor of MSOE regent Eckhart Grohmann who donated his “Man at Work” assortment to the college in 2001. Writer’s be aware: I obtained my undergraduate diploma from MSOE in 1999 and have adopted its improvement and development in alumni updates over time – don’t flip down the chance to go to this museum. You can be each happy and shocked.

Renaissance E-book Store on the Milwaukee Airport

However Wait, One Extra!

On the off probability, you’re flying into/out of the Milwaukee Mitchell Worldwide Airport, arrive early or keep late to flick thru the used books on the Renaissance E-book Store (the bookstore is outdoors of safety so you might verify this out when you’re ready for friends to depart or arrive). The guide store is situated subsequent to a small museum commemorating aviation historical past and in Milwaukee and past.