GoRockford

Rockford has been a pioneering sports town since the mid-1980s. Decade after decade, we’ve set the Midwestern standard for hosting sports tournaments with excellence, convenience and success.

And we never stop working to get better. Just in the past year, the Rockford region has opened the state-of-the-art UW Health Sports Factory designed for championship-caliber basketball, volleyball and much more with its 105,000 square feet of competition space. Across town, our Mercyhealth Sportscore Two complex has added turf and natural grass fields and the all-new “mega” indoor sports complex designed for everything from soccer to Ultimate to football.

When one thinks of l-o-n-g reads, War & Peace usually comes to mind. Well, now you can add our "Things to Do" to your list. Great family museums like Burpee Museum of Natural History and Discovery Center Museum. Or maybe a tour through Anderson Japanese Garden, one of the top Japanese gardens in North America. If you really want to know what's going on in the Rockford Region, then visit our Calendar of Events, too. That'll really keep you busy for a while. You see, chances are you'll run out of time during your visit long before you run out of things to do. In case you work up an appetite doing all this reading, don't forget to visit our dining page to plan a visit to one of our amazing restaurants!

Of course, a trip to Rockford wouldn’t be complete if you didn’t check out one of the many places that our hometown band Cheap Trick has made famous locally. Whether it is getting a bite to eat at Stockholm Inn (don’t forget to strum the lucky Rick Nielsen guitar on the wall) or getting your picture taken for a social media post outside of the Rockford Armory (and, of course, #gorockford #gotrickford) you will have a great time living the Rock & Roll life in Rockford.

Getting to the Rockford Region is easy, especially if you live in Chicago (60 miles from O'Hare), Madison (60 miles) or Milwaukee (80 miles). And once you're here, you'll feel like you're a million miles from the work-a-day world of home. Van Galder Bus Company (Coach USA) offers 17 daily shuttles between Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and Rockford. www.govangalder.com

Greyhound’s Chicago-to-Danville, Illinois route stops in Rockford at the RMTD’s East Side Transfer Center, 725 N. Lyford Rd. Arrival time 8:35 a.m.; Departure time 5:15 p.m. www.greyhound.com; www.rmtd.org

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