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![Grand Rapids](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Meyer_May_House.jpg)

# Grand Rapids

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

[Plan a trip to Grand Rapids](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Grand%20Rapids) [From Chicago](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chicago&to=Grand+Rapids)

## Every way there

- Chicago → Grand Rapids 204 km · quickest by road, 3h 34m · $23–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/chicago-to-grand-rapids) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Chicago&to=Grand+Rapids)
- Milwaukee → Grand Rapids 182 km · quickest by road, 5h 29m · $34–47 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/milwaukee-to-grand-rapids) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Milwaukee&to=Grand+Rapids)
- Detroit → Grand Rapids 226 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · $20–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/detroit-to-grand-rapids) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Detroit&to=Grand+Rapids)

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.

[Read the note on Grand Rapids](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/grand-rapids)

What Grand Rapids has

- Y Scheduled flights Grand Rapids (GRR), 15 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids%2C_Michigan), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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