Think there's nothing to do? Think again! Here are just a few:

Spend a fun-filled day at Flint's Sloan Museum and Buick Gallery and Research Center
Enjoy award-winning traveling exhibits, an interactive Discovery Center and diverse educational activities all year long. Experience the dynamic changes that helped shape the city of Flint during the last century. Visit Sloan through May 2 and experience "Predators", an engaging, yet educational, hands-on exhibit offering insight into the lives of some of the most dangerous animals on land, sea and in the sky. Visitors will be challenged through a variety of interactive exhibits to synthesize their learning by comparing and contrasting animals.

While visiting the Sloan Museum, be sure to take the time to walk through Sloan's Buick Gallery and Research Center featuring over 25 classic and concept Buicks, Chevrolets and other locally built automobiles including a 1951 XP-300, a 1954 Wildcat II, a 1977 Phantom (concept cars) and a Hellcat Tank Destroyer built by Buick during World War II.
Visitors can also relax with an old glass bottle of Coke at the 1940s Soda Fountain of Mackenzie's Drug Store, pose for a photograph behind the wheel of the Center's climb-on car, and observe the staff and volunteers as they work on the Center's automotive collection in their new vehicle observation and restoration shop.

After visiting the Sloan Museum and Buick Gallery and Research Center, stroll across the street to the Flint Institute of Arts, one of Michigan’s largest and most enduring fine arts museums. Now through April 18, visit the Flint Institute of Arts and view their newest traveling exhibit "Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond." Founded in the early 1800s by the Gee family as a cotton plantation, Gee's Bend, Alabama, is an isolated community surrounded on three sides by the Alabama River. After the Civil War, the formerly enslaved people remained in Gee's Bend as tenant farmers. Because of their minimal interaction with other communities, the citizens of Gee's Bend developed a distinctive local culture with quilting taking a vital place in their lives. These strikingly innovative, abstract quilts were often the only colorful or decorative furnishings in otherwise plain living spaces.

Discounted, overnight packages are available to the Sloan Museum, Buick Gallery and the Flint Institute of Arts. Visit "Overnight Pure FunPaks" for discounted admission tickets and overnight accommodations.

For questions, feel free to contact our Tourism Department for assistance at 1-877-FLINT-MI or locally at (810) 232-3261.

Enjoy a romantic weekend at one of our area bed & breakfasts or hotels!
"Enjoy a Victorian Experience" at Avon House Bed & Breakfast conveniently located near the Flint Cultural Center. A bit north, you'll find a country style retreat at Cinnamon Stick Farm Bed & Breakfast in Clio. Historic Fenton is home to the Wolcott House Bed & Breakfast, within walking distance to downtown Fenton shops and restaurants.

Genesee County is also home to many excellent hotels and motels, for you and that special someone to escape to for a weekend of relaxation. Romance packages are also available through our discounted, "Overnight Pure FunPaks" web site.

There's more great stuff to do...

Celebrate National Reading Month at the Flint Children's Museum during
"SHH! We're Reading."
Visit the Museum throughout March and participate in daily reading craft projects and activities based on some of our favorite children's books. Also, spend some time in the Museum's newest Discovery Zone exhibit "Once Upon a Time" and live happily ever after. This unique and educational exhibit focuses on the power and significance of fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Children can actually "Sit on a Tuffet" like Little Miss Muffet or put on some gold-locks and try out the chairs in the Three Bears' House. Special Museum activities are scheduled daily.

The Flint Children's Museum is open Tuesday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is closed on Sundays, Mondays and major holidays.

Looking for other family fun activites to do outdoors? Well, bundle up and join in on the fun:
Genesee County Parks - Enjoy outdoor winter fun ... There is cross-country skiing and educational programs all winter at For-Mar Nature Preserve and Arboretum in Burton. Skiers can cross-country ski whenever there is at least 3 inches of snow on the ground. Visit Flushing Township Nature Park for cross-country skiing, training sled dogs, snow-shoe walking and bird watching. Davison Roadside Park and Linden County Park also have sledding.

Looking for fun places to ride snowmobiles? Try out these county park locations, which are open 24 hours for rider convenience - Everett Cummings Center, Walleye Pike Boat Launch, Linden County Park, Bluegill Boat Launch, Buell Lake County Park and Richfield County Park.(Permitted when the terrain is frozen and there is a 3" accumulation of snow.)

Grand Blanc Parks -Loosen up those ankles, dust off those ice skates, and practice your figure-8's or hockey moves at Physician's Park. There is also sledding at Creasey Bicentennial Park.

There's more great Stuff for Families!!

Special Flint Events
The Flint Area Convention & Visitors Bureau is a proud partner of:
"Back to the Bricks Cruise and Car Show"
August 17-21, 2010 - Come back to downtown Flint for one of the biggest car events featuring a rolling cruise, kick-off party, live entertainment, automotive displays, vendors, food, antique fire trucks and dragster exhibits, contests, a Women's Marketplace and a car show that will amaze you with over 20,000 participants and 150,000 spectators.

Discounted, overnight packages to the 2010 "Back to the Bricks" event will be available for purchase in early April, 2010 and will offer a FREE collectors t-shirt. Visit "Overnight Pure FunPaks" soon or contact our Tourism Department for assistance at 1-877-FLINT-MI or locally at (810) 232-3261.

For patron parking during the 2010 "Back to the Bricks" please visit abc12 news web site.

"Bikes on the Bricks Motorcycle Show and Police Competition"
September 24 & 25, 2010 - Join two-days of fun in downtown Flint totally dedicated to motorcycles. Events include a law enforcement rodeo competition, a motorcycle show with prizes, contests, vendor and sponsor displays, motorcycle exhibit, fashion show, food, music, "After Party" sites and much more!!