Canad Inns Destination Center Grand Forks

In front of our favourite hotel ever!

Description:  Super clean and nice hotel.

Price:  Super reasonable, even for a kids’ suite.

Food:  Has a coffee maker, microwave and fridge.  99 cent breakfast in the restaurant, but why bother when you can have cereal in the room!

Location:  Beautiful Grand Forks.  The hotel just off the main highway and easy to find.

Waterpark:  Family favourite!!!  Lots of different areas including several waterslides – a couple of toddler ones, a couple of little kid ones and one giant one for older kids.

Rooms:  Get the kids’ suite.  It has a separate room for the kids with 2 bunkbeds and their own TV, video game system and CD player.  The kids loved being able to play in their own room…even if they ended up in our bed later on that night.

The bucket at the top drops a junk load of water on top of anyone below.

Looks scarier than it really is!

Waterpark at Canad Inns

Lazy River

Kids’ Room

Japanese Garden

This park is across the river from the Japaneses Garden in Grand Forks. The garden was developed and completed by representatives from Awano, Japan, Grand Forks’ sister city.  There is a lot of green space around the play ground and is very pretty and the kids loved it.  There is a nice pond  in the Japaneses Garden to walk around and they play structure is great!

Rock Climbing

Grand Forks Park

Japaneses Garden in Grand Forks

Grand Forks Park

Grand Forks, North Dakota

We found Grand Forks almost by accident in 2011. We were on our way to Minneapolis and had to break up the trip with a stay in Grand Forks. Almost immediately the city won us over. To us is a very friendly city with lots of shopping and great green spaces for the kids.

Here is a little information on Grand Forks:

It is the third-largest city in the state of North Dakota (after Fargo and Bismarck).The city’s population is around 52,838, while that of the city and surrounding metropolitan area was 98,461. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks, ND-MN Metropolitan Area, which is often called Greater Grand Forks or The Grand Cities.

Located on the western banks of the Red River of the North in a flat region known as the Red River Valley, the city is prone to flooding and was struck by the devastating Red River Flood of 1997.Originally called Les Grandes Fourches by French fur traders, Grand Forks was founded in 1870 by steamboat captain Alexander Griggs and incorporated on February 22, 1881. Its location at the fork of the Red River and the Red Lake River gives the city its name.

Arts Festival in Grand Forks