Start from 44 curated places around Green Bay, WI, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Plae Bistro
Multi-year local winner for Best Overall Restaurant, Plae Bistro sits on the east side and runs a New American menu built around seasonal ingredients and technique that punches well above what a mid-sized Midwest city usually delivers. The room is polished without being stiff, and the kitchen executes consistently. This is the table to book for a serious dinner.
Three Three Five
A small-plates fine dining room on N Broadway whose menu turns over weekly based on what the kitchen finds compelling, which keeps regulars coming back and makes every visit different. The Wednesday-evening-only public seating is a genuine event — there's no fixed menu in the traditional sense. Green Bay's most creatively ambitious table.
Trails & outdoors
Baird Creek Greenway
Green Bay's most popular running and walking trail, with over 500 acres of forest, meadow and creekside terrain woven together in the middle of the city. The trail network has enough variation to keep regulars returning to different sections and enough natural buffer that it feels far from the surrounding neighborhoods. Among the better urban green corridors in the state.
Fox River State Recreational Trail
A 25.8-mile converted 1873 railway corridor that begins at CityDeck in downtown Green Bay and follows the Fox River south through small towns and farmland. The surface is paved and flat throughout, making it accessible for cyclists, inline skaters and walkers without technical skill requirements. Pelicans congregate near the lock in season — an unexpected sight.
Things to do
Meyer Theatre
A restored 1929 vaudeville palace in downtown Green Bay that now hosts over 170 performances a year across comedy, music, dance and theater. The Let Me Be Frank Productions company is the resident troupe and a local institution in its own right. The architecture inside is the reason to see a show here over a generic venue.
CityDeck
A 2.5-acre linear riverfront park along the Fox River in downtown Green Bay, with a summer concert series, kayak launch points, benches and open lawn that makes it the natural gathering point on warm evenings. The Fox River views here are better than anywhere else in the city and the summer programming is consistently well-attended.
Landmarks & sights
Lambeau Field Stadium Tours
The Packers have played here since 1957 and this is one of the most storied football venues in the country. Tours take you through the player tunnel, onto the sidelines, into the press box and through locker rooms most fans only see on TV. The Classic, Champions and Legendary tiers differ mainly in how deep behind the scenes you go.
Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
Fifteen thousand square feet across nine galleries trace every chapter of the Packers' century-plus history, from the early leather-helmet era to the Super Bowl years. Vince Lombardi's actual desk is here, and the 13 Below Ice Bowl Theater recreates the legendary 1967 championship freeze. One of the best NFL team museums anywhere.