Paranormal investigations top the list at new Grand Rapids walking tour company
Deborah Johnson WoodGhost hunters get ready! Some of Grand Rapids’ most noted shops and nightspots could be haunted and soon you’ll have the chance to find out if it’s real. Cityscape Adventures, a fun and friendly way to discover Grand Rapids with walking tours, will launch on October 1 with Paranormal Investigations – a tour that taps into the city’s nightlife while visiting some of the city’s top paranormal sites. Cityscape teamed up with the West Michigan Ghost Hunters Society to film videos of paranormal activity in local establishments and to procure magnetic field indicators and other equipment tour-goers can use.Cityscape’s nearly two dozen tours will give locals and visitors the inside scoop on Grand Rapids. Tours include Urban Bites, a weekly (Saturdays) tasting trek of seven downtown restaurants; Napa Valley in River Valley, a discovery of the area’s wine destinations; Hometown Heritage, a trip through time with Grand Rapids’ people, architecture and history; and River’s Rage, looking back on the history of development along our riverbanks.Group tours, called City Slickers Conquest, are customized tours that can include scavenger hunts, trivia contests and interaction with a variety of businesses downtown.”I didn’t want to bring just another tour company to Grand Rapids because when I look around I see innovation,” says Brenda Dyer, owner and founder. “I had a lot of collaboration with the history department at the library, Grand Rapids Historical Commission and members of the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council. We don’t have to go to Chicago for fun anymore.”Tours range from 90 minutes to five hours and $15 to $27 per adult, depending on the tour. Children aged 10 to 16, $3; children under 10 tour free. Source: Brenda Dyer, Cityscape AdventuresDeborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at deborah@rapidgrowthmedia.com. Development News tips can be sent to info@rapidgrowthmedia.com.
Deborah Johnson Wood
Ghost hunters get ready! Some of Grand Rapids’ most noted shops and nightspots could be haunted and soon you’ll have the chance to find out if it’s real.
Cityscape Adventures, a fun and friendly way to discover Grand Rapids with walking tours, will launch on October 1 with Paranormal Investigations – a tour that taps into the city’s nightlife while visiting some of the city’s top paranormal sites. Cityscape teamed up with the West Michigan Ghost Hunters Society to film videos of paranormal activity in local establishments and to procure magnetic field indicators and other equipment tour-goers can use.
Cityscape’s nearly two dozen tours will give locals and visitors the inside scoop on Grand Rapids. Tours include Urban Bites, a weekly (Saturdays) tasting trek of seven downtown restaurants; Napa Valley in River Valley, a discovery of the area’s wine destinations; Hometown Heritage, a trip through time with Grand Rapids’ people, architecture and history; and River’s Rage, looking back on the history of development along our riverbanks.
Group tours, called City Slickers Conquest, are customized tours that can include scavenger hunts, trivia contests and interaction with a variety of businesses downtown.
“I didn’t want to bring just another tour company to Grand Rapids because when I look around I see innovation,” says Brenda Dyer, owner and founder. “I had a lot of collaboration with the history department at the library, Grand Rapids Historical Commission and members of the Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council. We don’t have to go to Chicago for fun anymore.”
Tours range from 90 minutes to five hours and $15 to $27 per adult, depending on the tour. Children aged 10 to 16, $3; children under 10 tour free.
Source: Brenda Dyer, Cityscape Adventures
Deborah Johnson Wood is development news editor for Rapid Growth Media. She can be contacted at deborah@rapidgrowthmedia.com. Development News tips can be sent to info@rapidgrowthmedia.com.
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