Top 7 Things to do Good for Big Groups in Jackson, Michigan (MI)

Take the Jacktown Double and see Two Huge Prisons in One Great Tour! Experience nearly 200 years of Jackson’s fascinating prison history. Fun and knowledgeable guides take from one memorable character to another. Hear unforgettable stories about life behind bars, colorful characters, painful punishments, escapes, corruption, and reforms. You will visit Michigan's first prison and then go to the huge State Prison of Southern Michigan that was the largest walled prison in the world until 2007. Don't Miss This Tour! Recommended for anyone over 8 years old. This is a 3 hour tour. Shorter tours are available. Open: April 1st through October 31st. Bus Tour Groups inquire about a customized tour for your group. All tours start at Michigan’s First State Prison and proceed from there. Monday through Saturday at 10:00 AM or 1:00 PM. Reservations are necessary for all tours! Reserve your spot online before 5 PM the previous day.

Enter a locked room with 2-10 people with only 60 minutes to escape. Together you must find clues, solve puzzles and decode riddles to successfully escape before time runs out!

Sandhill Crane Vineyards is a small family-owned winery and cafe located in eastern Jackson county. Our award-winning wines are made with only Michigan grapes and fruits. With a large wrap around deck full of outside seating, live music all through the summer, and a vast array of award winning wines, there's so much that makes SCV a destination vineyard for so many! - Our tasting room is ALWAYS open during business hours. We are happy to share our knowledge and tasty wine with you. For groups of 5-6, we are requiring a reservation due to covid capacity limitations.

Our Airpark Tasting Room located in Jackson, represents flying, vintage airplanes and living in a home on a grass runway surrounded by tress. Our wines are offered for tasting in a beautiful Tasting Room overlooking the grass runway with the theme, open cockpit biplane logo on every bottle, being vintage aviation. Our Airpark location is know for it's relaxed atmosphere with an emphasis on personal attention~ With the desire to grow our own grapes, having outgrown the hangar and an abundance of requests to host weddings, buses, etc., we acquired 26 acres in Onsted for a vineyard and second venue. The theme, Lorenzo being an international airline pilot, is vintage airline with a 1974 German glider wing for a bar top, vintage destination posters heralding legacy airlines and will eventually dig a barrel cave into the side of a hill. In 2017 we opened Blue Skies Brewery at the new venue and have added hard ciders, a kitchen serving small plates and live entertainment on the weekends.

Dahlem is Jackson's Nature Place where everyone is welcome to experience, study and enjoy nature. With five miles of hiking trails on 280 acres of conserved ecosystems containing butterfly trails, community gardens, forests, grasslands, streams, marshes and ponds, visitors can enjoy a guided hike or experience the natural wonders on their own. The 3/8 mile Nature for All Trail is specially designed for visitors with limited mobility. Dahlem offers year-round environmental educational programs and free seasonal festivals and events.