Kalamazoo is the midsized metropolitan in south-western Michigan. The city possesses strong educational environment with a large ‘Western Michigan University’, Kalamazoo College, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College. Being the first city to launch the pedestrian mall in America, the city has earned the nick name “Mall City”. Museums, Parks, and exuberant college environment keeps the city always in the happening mood.
Kalamazoo is fame for its best educational institutions. Nearly 25 thousand students are graduating every year from the Michigan University, also there are numerous young generation is thriving with their studies in other Kalamazoo colleges. You can enjoy the city’s love of arts and museums along with the beautiful Michigan University. Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, State Theatre, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Theatre Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Nature Center, Kalamazoo Arts Council, and Arcadia Creek Festival Place are the best visiting places in the city.
Kalamazoo downtown welcomes you with an ocean of chic shopping, amazing dining, thriving nightlife and live performances.
The Mall City enjoys the great shopping options such as myriad retailers, street markets, clothing, arts, sports, and electronic shops. In Crossroads Mall, you can find more than 100 stores and large malls with international clothing brands, Southland Mall and Maple Hill Pavilion features one mile long major strip mall possessing retailers, bars, and restaurants. South Westnedge Shopping District is another best shopping spot in the city presenting more than thousand retailers, countless strip malls, specialty shops to big box retailers, bars, pubs, and plenty of eateries.
Shopping and dining will come together in any city. As the city owns many shopping malls, obviously you can expect the similar number of restaurants stapled in and around the malls. Plenty of dining options welcome you with delicious culinary. Asian, Mexican, Italian and many other varieties of cuisines are served at any time of the day.
The city owns the electrifying nightlife. Evenings and weekends, streets will be crowded and busy. Most of the students and other locals enjoy good time in numerous pubs and bars.
Kalamazoo is very popular for summer food festivals like Greek Festival, Irish Festival, Taste of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Scottish Festival & Highland Games, Taste of Portage, Island Festival and Rib fest are celebrated along with religious and national festivals like Christmas, Easter, Halloween, New year’s day and July 4th.
Kalamazoo has very good transportation facilities like trains, taxis, buses and rental cars. The rail service provided by Amtrak is the best way if you want to travel to other near cities around the Kalamazoo. Buses and taxis are the good options to navigate in and around the city.
Football, ice hockey, baseball, softball, track and field (running, jumping, and throwing), basketball, and volley ball are the popular sports within the city. The city host many international tournaments.
Kalamazoo has a humid continental climate with humid and hot summers, sometimes the temperature reaches to 25°C, autumn and spring are the best time to visit this place, the trees will change their colours and the climate will be very pleasant so, you can have a nice ride throughout the city and apple blossoms. Winters are extreme cold and will have excessive snowfall.
For any criminal offense tourists can inform the police at a toll free number 911
Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport (IATA: AZO, ICAO: KAZO, FAA LID: AZO) is a small airport, which is located to south east 5 kilometres from the Kalamazoo and 32 kilometers west of Battle Creek. The airport serves flights only to domestic destinations, the major destinations includes Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Cincinnati, and Minneapolis. There is a public charter airline serving weekly twice from Kalamazoo to Florida. About 266,758 passengers travel through this airport yearly.
The two major airlines operated from the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport includes American Eagle and Delta Connection
It has one passenger terminal with five gates. The terminal building also consists of security lanes and baggage carousels.
Rental cars, taxis, limousine and public buses are the major means of transportation to and from the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport. You can fine all the automobile rental agencies at the baggage claim area and bust is in front of the terminal building, Monday to Saturday services starts from 7 am to 10 pm. Sunday will be holiday.
Free Wi-Fi, Gift shops, Information Center, ATM’s, Restrooms, Lost and found baggage counter, Meeting rooms, Business Center, News Vending, Food/Beverage shops and Car Rentals are the few services provided by Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport.
The safe places to stay near the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport are Four Points by Sheraton and Radisson Plaza Hotel.
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5235 Portage Road |
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Kalamazoo, MI 49002 |
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