Terre Haute Vacation Rentals

Terre Travel Guide

Welcome to Terre Haute, Indiana. A city filled with culture, history, sports, beauty, and so much fun. This city is a perfect vacation getaway as it offers fun and educational activities for the whole family. Recognized as a Tree City, USA, Terra Haute is an impressively green city with excellent urban forestry, beautiful recreational parks, and a scenic atmosphere.

Things to Do in Terre

Visit Deming Park for a wonderful time with the family and enjoy the playground, swimming pools, arboretums, disc golf course, small ponds, gazebos, and picnic areas. The park is absolutely nice and is highly recommended for the whole family.

Looking to spend a few hours with family or friends learning history while enjoying delicious food? Then visit the Clabber Girl Museum. The museum does not only showcase the history of Clabber Girl, the baking powder company, but it also displays a glimpse of American baking for the past two decades and some history about its hometown Terre Haute.

Learn and experience first-hand history and stories about the Holocaust and the Mengele’s twin study from survivors at the Candles Holocaust Museum. The museum displays artifacts related to that era and shares insightful and invaluable information to back up their displays. Also the interactive sections with the survivors are moving. Candles Holocaust Museum is definitely worth the visit.

Dobbs Memorial Park is another exciting place in Terre Haute where anyone can have fun, explore nature, learn and spend quality time with family or friends. This unique city park has an heirloom garden, a nature center, a Native American Museum, and a Nature Preserve all worth exploring. Other amazing features of this park includes a butterfly garden, a pond, shelters, picnic tables, a prairie, and a beautiful trail that goes through wetlands, pinewoods, growth forests and the State Nature preserve.

Engage in the sophisticated culture of art at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute. The museum is filled with impressive American art collections from artists like Grant Wood, Reginald Marsh, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Fairfield Porter, and many more. Swope Art Museum is a must visit and a great place to see art while visiting the small city of Terre Haute.

While in Terre Haute, don't pass up visiting the iconic Terre Haute Masonic Temple. The history, architecture, and designs, for the different fraternal ceremonies, in this building are simply amazing and truly a sight to behold.

Go back in time and experience the feeling of living in the Midwest during the early 19th-century at Fowler Park. The park displays an authentic pioneer village and a wide range of frontier living skills that involve handcrafted items, frontier music, covered bridges, and a mill fed by the dam and log cabins. The park also offers wagon rides, a campground on a lake, and beautiful experience. It is also a great activity to do as a family on vacation.

Best Places to Stay in Terre

Complete a holiday or vacation in Terre Haute by staying in affordable luxury accommodations that meet the needs of any family or group of friends. Options range from vacation rentals, apartments, hotels, vacation homes, villas, cabins, and other rentals in Terre Haute.

Best Time to Visit Terre

Terre Haute is a pretty little city with a lot of outdoor and warm weather activities to be done by the whole family. So the best time to visit this enthusiastic, forested city to fully embrace its beauty is from early June to late September.

Best Events in Terre

Attend the Old Fashion Day Festival in Terre Haute held in October. The festival features fun, crafts, face painting, puppet shows, carriage rides, music, and so much more.