Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States.

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Every way there

Chicago → Grand Rapids
204 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · $23–31
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Milwaukee → Grand Rapids
182 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · $34–47
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Detroit → Grand Rapids
226 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $20–28
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Grand Rapids, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Grand Rapids has

YScheduled flightsGrand Rapids (GRR), 15 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

42.963°, -85.668°

The city had a population of 198,917 at the 2020 census and an estimated population of 201,183 in 2025. Grand Rapids is the second-most populated municipality in the state, after Detroit. It is the central city of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area, which has a population of around 1.2 million and is the 49th-largest metropolitan area in the U.S.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.