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Attractions near South Milwaukee

In South Milwaukee, Oak Creek Parkway is the place to visit

Roughly 3M visitors a year make it to Six Flags Great America. Only one place to visit is inside South Milwaukee, but 30 more are within 40 miles. The mix takes in 16 museums, 4 city parks and 3 theatres. Further afield lies McDonald's #1 Store Museum, at 60 mi.

Attractions nearby
47
within 60 miles
The big one
9 mi
Milwaukee Art Museum
Museum · 9 mi north

Milwaukee Art Museum

Art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The towns around it, and where to stay →

The map

On the map

The 30 outside town cluster to the north.

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Orange: South Milwaukee. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors

Everything nearby

Everything on the list

After the one in town come 46 more within 60 miles.

The places inside South Milwaukee lead. The rest are ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places come first and the local favorites follow.

Parks and trails in South Milwaukee → · South Milwaukee’s history →

Sources: National Park Service · ski areas © OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap contributors · Wikidata · Wikipedia readership · photos via Wikimedia Commons
Photo credits

Oak Creek Parkway: Bluebarb11, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Six Flags Great America: Feather Better, CC BY 4.0 · Fiserv Forum: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · McDonald's #1 Store Museum: Bruce Marlin, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Milwaukee Art Museum: Michael Hicks (Mulad), CC BY 2.0 · Illinois Railway Museum: The original uploader was Slambo at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.0 · UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena: Shadowlink1014, Public domain · Alpine Valley Music Theatre: chad davis, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Aztalan State Park: Joshua Mayer - Flickr user wackybadger, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Harley-Davidson Museum: Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin: The original uploader was Sulfur at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory: Sulfur (Talk / contribs), CC BY-SA 3.0 · Milwaukee County Zoo: Awkwafaba, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wood National Cemetery: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Chicago Botanic Garden: No machine-readable author provided. Kaosfere assumed (based on copyright claims, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Kettle Moraine State Forest: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Marcus Amphitheater: Ryan Dickey from Evanston, IL / Chicago, United States, CC BY 2.0 · Riverside Theatre: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center: Eddau, CC0 · Discovery World: Dori, CC BY-SA 3.0 us · Blue Harbor Resort: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Old World Wisconsin: Bridget Bannon, CC BY-SA 3.0 · John Michael Kohler Arts Center: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Woodstock Opera House: HrAtsuo, CC0 · Grohmann Museum: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum: Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Racine Zoo: SimLibrarian, CC0 · Charles Allis Art Museum: Freekee at English Wikipedia, Public domain · Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0 · Lake Park: https://www.flickr.com/people/jhtaylor/, CC BY 2.0 · National Museum of the American Sailor: (U.S. Navy photo/Released), Public domain · Racine Art Museum: Yumbay, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Boerner Botanical Gardens: Photo was taken in the Summer of 2006 by Douglas Tyler Spencer., Public domain · Juneau Park: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kenosha Public Museum: Kenokewl of English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Kohl Children's Museum: Eddau, Public domain · Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Russell Military Museum: Pkiv, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ladd Arboretum: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Above & Beyond Children's Museum: self, CC BY-SA 2.5 · Dretzka Park: Lightburst, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mitchell Gallery of Flight: SuperDalio, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Racine Heritage Museum: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0 · Shakespeare Garden: Zol87 from Chicago, IL, USA, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wehr Nature Center: Lightburst, CC BY-SA 4.0

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