Other Area Activities

Notre Dame Football
This year, when your done at SeptemberFest, head 45 minutes north to South Bend and see Notre Dame take on Michigan State at the most renowned college football facility in the country. Join the 80,000 fans who fill the stadium at every Fighting Irish game. The game is Sat. September 22nd, at 3:00 PM. Visit Notre Dame's website for more information.

Golf
Mill Creek Golf Course - Located only 5 minutes from RapidView, this is one of the most beautiful City owned courses in Indiana. Stop by the Round Barn Club House to check in and your off and running. Fee are around $25 for 18 holes with cart.

Mystic Hill Golf Club - Located only 15 minutes from RapidView, this course is a new Pete Dye design golf facility located in northern Indiana. They are a public golf course which opened June 26, 1998. This stunning 18-hole layout incorporates a links style design on the front nine and a more traditional feel on the back nine. Prairie grasses guard the fairways as numerous sand bunkers protect each undulating green. The course offers you views of wetland areas, lush woods and rolling fairways. This is truly an awesome course to play. Free are around $35 to $45 for 18 holes with a cart.

Community Tours

Rochester Waste Water Treatment Facility - Visit with Mr. Herb Corn, Superintendent of the facility, as he shows you his award with, state-of-the-art waste water treatment plant. You know how to inspect pipelines, see why this is important to treatment plants. Tours available upon request. Facility is only 5 minutes from RapidView IBAK USA.

Area Events

Trail of Courage Living History Festival - Step back into Fulton County's Frontier past with a visit to this historic living history festival of pre-1840. Visit historic encampments representing the French and Indian War, Seven Years War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Plains Indians, Woodland Indians - Miami and Potawatomi life ways, and voyaguers with canoes. Enjoy period music and dance, bagpipes and Scottish dancers, marching fife and drum corps, a frontier fashion show and Indian lore. See demonstrations of early American and Indian skills and wares such as broom making, spinning, candle dipping, flintknapping, Indian beadwork and more. Savor a variety of foods cooked over wood fires: buffalo burgers, Indian fry bread, venison stew, apple sausage, barbecue, homemade fudge, apple dumplings, popcorn and potato chips and fish fried in big iron kettles. Also, ice cream, George Washington’s favorite treat! You'll be sure to find something you'll like! Make your way to the Chippeway Village portraying frontier Northern Indiana of 1832 with its pioneer and Indian crafts, post office, storytellers, Frontier Blab School and 18th century puppet show. Observe muzzleloading shooting and tomahawk contests, blanket trading as well as a canoe landing and fur trading skit. See the Log Trading Post. Canoe rides available. Be sure to visit Chief White Eagle and Bobbie Bear before leaving - they are just outside the Admissions gate. FREE tram rides from FREE parking field to festival! The grounds are handicapped accessible. The museum and Living History Village at the north end of the grounds are open with costumed hosts, admission free. This event is only 2 minutes from RapidView and operates on September 15th and 16th.