I remember seeing Def Leppard at the Free Fair in like '88 and Metallica in '94 and it was about 4million degrees out both times and they kept hosing ppl down...was horrid...never really went again(grew up in Wyoming/GR, moved to Clarksville/Strawberry Lake just after high school..now in the U.P.).
Sometimes miss being back home...
ok..going to wax nostalgic here for a few.....
all great places to hit (just a few) if I were back home:
Riverside Park (been there forever, plus the pow wow every year)
Lamar Park (I grew up across the street and it's huge, the green patchy walking area to the NW actually was a lake for decades..we used to swim there when I was little all the way to high school.)
Johnson Park (be careful of the Indian mounds..kent trails rd across the river from the mounds road),
John Ball Park (from the 1800's!!)
The NW corner of Wilson and Lake Michigan drive used to be a drive in theater...then it was a paintball/woods kind of thing..not sure what it is now.
Reeds Lake...way way back in the day..I'm talking back when my grandfather was a young boy and was in an orphanage (the blodgett home for boys..which is now Grand Rapids Jr College), the entire Reeds Lake area was an amusement park called Ramona Park. There has to be tons of stuff in there...was there from late 1800's til 1955....
k..i saw pics online of the house I grew up in and houses of all of our neighbors who are either dead or in their 120's....
GL hunting!