White River State Park Celebrates MLK, Jr. Day with Free Admissions
Celebrate this year’s MLK Day with White River State Park! The park is offering free admission to park attractions in exchange for food donations to benefit Gleaners PLUS you can register to win at all of the WRSP attractions for 4 tickets to the opening concert at the Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn featuring Ellie Goulding. Here are some of the places you can visit:
INDIANAPOLIS ZOO: Visitors can walk the grounds and see animals, especially the ones that love the cooler temperatures. Favorite activities will include petting sharks, looking eye-to-eye with orangutans and gazing at dolphins (presentations are at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.).
NCAA HALL OF CHAMPIONS: View “Game of Change,” a film featuring a historic basketball game in 1963 where Mississippi State disregarded an unwritten Mississippi rule against playing integrated teams, at the NCAA Hall of Champions. Mississippi State, an all-white team, sneaks out of town in the middle of the night to play a Loyola team that features four black starters. The film runs at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
IMAX THEATER: “Hubble: The IMAX Experience” chronicles the effort of seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis as they repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Shown for free as space permits at 10 a.m., 11:10 a.m., 12:20 p.m., 1:30 p.m. and 2:40 p.m. Make sure to get your IMAX tickets early that morning as there is limited seating capacity and tickets are typically gone before noon.
INDIANA STATE MUSEUM: Abraham Lincoln’s Final Portrait is on display at the Indiana State Museum for a limited time only plus you can watch films with Dr. King’s speeches and catch actors from the Phoenix Theatre presenting excerpts from “Butler,” a Civil War-era play featuring a Union soldier and an escaped slave seeking asylum in Union territory.
The INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS and Eskenazi Health are offering free health screenings at the Indiana State Museum. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Anyone who participates in the health screenings will receive a complimentary ticket to Opening Night at Victory Field on April 14 courtesy of the Indianapolis Indians. Plus, Rowdie, the Indians mascot, will stop by for autographs between 11 a.m. and noon.
EITELJORG MUSEUM: Last chance to visit Jingle Rails, the Great Western Adventure, a one-of-a-kind G-scale train experience featuring the Vegas Strip, Mt. Rushmore, Yosemite, the Golden Gate Bridge, Soldiers and Sailors Monument and features trains that chug along nearly 1,200 feet of track through a network of trestles, bridges and tunnels with detailed replicas of national treasures.
White River State Park is also offering FREE parking in the underground garage located off Washington Street in front of the Indiana State Museum, in the surface parking lots at the Indianapolis Zoo and Victory Field, and in the surface parking lot across from Victory Field next to the Park’s Visitor’s Center. Parking is not guaranteed and is on a first-come, first-served basis.
SEGMENT IS SPONSORED BY WHITE RIVER STATE PARK