Did you know that Warsaw is located in the area between Pike Lake, Hidden Lake, Center Lake, and Winona Lake?
Population: 13,559
Best Way to travel: Car
#1 Thing to do: JD's Roadhouse
#2 Thing to do: Stonehenge Golf Club
#3 Thing to do: Racoon Run Golf Club
Fun Fact: Warsaw if referred to as the “Orthopedic Capital of the World”. The first orthopedic device manufacturer was the DePuy Manufacturing Company.
#1 Car Rental Company: Avis
Warsaw is a wonderful city located in Indiana, United States. The county seat of Kosciusko County, Warsaw has an area of 11.6 square miles and a population of more than 13,500 residents, according to the 2010 census. Warsaw is also known under the nickname of "Lake City", due to its location near Winona, Pike, Hidden and Center Lakes. Warsaw was settled in 1836, but it was incorporated as a town only in 1854. Throughout the years, Warsaw has developed impressively, the city being also known as the "Orthopedic Capital of the World", this being the place in which the first manufacturer of this industry created a working site. Nowadays, Warsaw is the destination of numerous tourists arriving from all around the state, but not only.
Wagon Wheel Theater is one of the most popular cultural venues of Warsaw. The spot hosts numerous concerts and stage performances. In fact, this is the preferred Warsaw venue for live music and performances by local musicians.
Billy Sunday Historic Site Museum is the best museum in the whole area, despiting the history of the city. In fact, this Warsaw museum is most commonly described as absolutely impressive, but it is not the only museum in the city. The Kosciusko County Historical Society Jail Museum is also worth to be visited.
The Center Lake Park is one of the most beautiful natural areas of Warsaw. This spot hosts various concerts, mostly during the months of summer. The place is also great to visit each moment when you are willing to have a relaxing walk into a spot of a scenic beauty.
El Arriero Restaurant is the perfect place to eat in while being in Warsaw. The venue is really beautiful, while the food is always tasty and quickly prepared. Since the menu of this restaurant is so varied and all the Mexican foods are so delicious, the only difficulty you will meet is choosing out of all specialties. However, there is nothing to worry about, as no matter what you will choose, you will get a tasty meal.
Warsaw, Indiana (population 13,000), in Kosciusko County, is 102 miles southeast of Chicago, Illinois. Located in Northern Indiana along the historic Lincoln Highway, Warsaw was twice named as one of the "Top 100 Small Towns in America." It is known as the "Orthopedic Manufacturing Capital of the World," and is home to the largest printing presses in the world.
1. Lake City Greenway: Four and a half miles of this proposed eight-mile, multi-use trail for bicycling, walking, jogging, running, and rollerblading has been completed. The trail traverses between Warsaw and Winona Lake.
2. Kosciusko County lakes: The county has an astounding 103 lakes, including Indiana's largest (Lake Wawasee near Syracuse) at over 3,000 acres and the state's deepest (Tippecanoe Lake north of Warsaw) at nearly 120 feet. Warsaw itself has three lakes within its corporate limits -- Center, Pike, and Winona lakes -- offering every form of watersports.
3. Lincoln Highway marker: The Lincoln was America's first coast-to-coast highway, conceived in 1912. The highway connected Times Square in New York City with the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco's Lincoln Park with 3,300 miles of interconnecting roadways. Warsaw's Funk Park is home to one of the few Lincoln Highway markers still in existence; in fact, it is the only marker in the state in its original location and the last remaining marker known to exist along the 23 miles in Kosciusko County.
4. Amish Acres: This historic restoration's restaurants, hotels, a musical theater, and tours have earned Amish Acres the designation of "Indiana's number-one tourist attraction" by Travel Trade Magazine. The only Old Order Amish farm listed in The National Trust of Historic Preservation has 18 historic buildings, including numerous ones from neighboring farms that tell the story of 19th century rural America. Guided walking tours include an orchard, a kitchen garden, an original house, a bank barn, and outbuildings. A 16-foot covered farm wagon pulled by a tractor travels down gravel lanes around the pond, past historic buildings, and through the woods.
5. Chief Menominee Memorial: At the headwaters of the Yellow River about 15 miles northeast of Warwick is the first monument that any state erected to an Indian. The heroic-size statue of Chief Menominee (1791-1841), arrayed in full Potawatomi regalia, gazes across the land that once was his. The federal government schemed to remove the Potawatomis from their homeland, negotiating the purchase of the land with three other chiefs. Menominee refused to participate in the negotiations, and charged that the sale was fraudulent. The governor sent a hundred troops to remove the Potawatomis by force, and Menominee was arrested. More than 850 Indians started for Kansas on what became known as the Trail of Death. As the Potawatomis trekked west, they passed areas in the midst of a typhoid epidemic, and nearly 300 Indians contracted the disease. Forty-two Indians are buried along the trail.
