AAC's Chicago Top 10 List: No. 8 - Water Taxi

A water taxi putters past the Field Museum.

Take a water taxi from museum park to Navy Pier. One of Chicago’s most visited tourist attractions, Navy Pier offers great views of the city, a boardwalk, shopping and dining, a ferris wheel, and is the home to the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago Children's Museum, and WBEZ, Chicago's public radio station. While all of these attractions are worth checking out, the journey to the pier is possibly the highlight when it is made by water taxi, starting from Museum Campus. Museum Campus Chicago is a 57-acre Lake Michigan lakefront park that surrounds three of the city's most notable museums, all dedicated to the natural sciences: the Adler Planetarium, the Shedd Aquarium, and the Field Museum of Natural History. The dock at the campus is a short 1.5 mile taxi or bus ride from McCormick Place. Shoreline Sightseeing offers water taxi boat rides between docks at Museum Campus and Navy Pier. This half-day trip is truly an experience - taking in views of the city from beyond the shore of Lake Michigan while boating amidst cool freshwater spray are worth the trip alone.... Umm, can you tell that we love our city yet?

To get to Museum Campus by bus, take Bus #3 that stops in front of McCormick place and get off at Roosevelt and Michigan. Then transfer to Bus #146 that will take you the last 5 minutes to the museums. Once there, a water taxi ticket can be purchased for $7. Water taxis leave every 20 minutes.

Navy Pier is lots of fun in the summertime. Beer garden, food vendors and live music sound ok?