Seattle’s Paramount Theatre has been one of the city’s premier stages since 1928, and its downtown location puts you within walking distance of some of the best attractions the Pacific Northwest has to offer. If you’re traveling for music events to this Pike-Pine corridor venue in 2026, you’ll want to explore the surrounding neighborhood. This…
Spend an hour at Millennium Park for Cloud Gate, or two to three hours at the Art Institute if your schedule allows it. Both sit within a 10-minute walk of the festival grounds and cost nothing to combine into the same morning. Festival gates at Grant Park open hours before the headliner takes the stage,…
Go to Cindy’s Rooftop before the show for skyline views, Monk’s Pub after for an honest drink with no wait. Those two cover most Grant Park nights, since the park itself has no bars on the grounds beyond festival beverage tents. A festival day at Grant Park runs long. Gates open mid-morning, the headliner doesn’t…
Eat near Randolph Street if you’re tight on time, the South Loop or West Loop if you have an hour to spare. Brown Bag Seafood Co. on Randolph is your fastest real meal before gates open, five minutes from the festival entrance with no wait. The energy of a festival crowd, the anticipation before a…
Stay in the South Loop if you want to walk to the gates. Stay in River North if you want the night to keep going after the headliner. That single decision covers most Grant Park visitors, and it matters more here than at almost any other venue on this site, since Grant Park itself has…
Take the CTA Red or Blue Line to Jackson or Monroe and walk the rest of the way. That’s the fastest, cheapest, and most reliable way to reach Grant Park, and it beats driving on every metric that matters on a festival day: cost, speed, and not getting stuck in post-show gridlock on Michigan Avenue….
Finding the right place to stay near The Gorge Amphitheatre is one of the most important decisions you’ll make before attending a show here. The venue sits in a remote stretch of central Washington’s high desert, perched above the Columbia River, and that remoteness is part of what makes it magical. But it also means…
The Gorge Amphitheatre sits on the edge of a 800-foot basalt canyon above the Columbia River in George, Washington. That alone tells you this trip is going to be different. Most concert venues are surrounded by parking lots and fast food. This one is surrounded by one of the most dramatic landscapes in North America….
The Gorge Amphitheatre sits in one of the most remote concert settings in North America. That’s the whole point. You drive out through high desert, cross into Grant County, and suddenly the Columbia River cuts through the canyon below you while the stage floats over the cliff edge. There is genuinely no venue on earth…
Let’s get one thing out of the way upfront: George, WA has about 500 people in it. There is no restaurant strip. There is no food hall. There is no block of competing Thai places to scroll through on Yelp. You are in the high desert above the Columbia River, which is exactly why The…