Hendricks County offers a wonderful variety of entertainment options for people of all ages. In addition, residents have quick and easy access to a host of big-city activities, events and facilities in the adjacent Indianapolis metropolitan area.

Residents can enjoy a variety of sporting events along with many parks and recreation activities, performing arts presentations and visits to museums in both Hendricks County and in nearby Indianapolis.

Indianapolis offers world-class performing arts, first-rate museums, and attractions for the entire family as well as a variety of sporting events. Here are just a few of the many entertainment opportunities available to residents of Hendricks County and the Indianapolis metropolitan area.

Sports Events as well as Parks and Recreation
Hendricks County is the location of Indianapolis Raceway Park (IRP), site of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) U.S. Nationals and key events of the NASCAR and United States Auto Club (USAC) circuits. An exciting venue for motorsports fans, contestants and participants, IRP hosts an impressive schedule of events that includes USAC sprint cars, midgets, Silver Crown cars, Formula Ford 2000’s, NASCAR Grand National stock cars and Supertrucks. IRP provides clean, family-oriented entertainment for Hendricks County residents.

Because of its proximity to the amateur sports capital of the world, sports and athletics thrive in Hendricks County. This includes everything from little leagues to high school sports. Throughout the area there is ample opportunity for kids to learn a sport and participate in it through high school. For adults, too, there are leagues that host a variety of sporting activities. Numerous "fun runs" and walks for charity are also popular in the county and find great support and participation.

Access to Indianapolis sports events is fast and easy from anywhere in Hendricks County. The city is home to the Indianapolis "500," the world’s premiere auto racing event; the Brickyard "400," a key race on the NASCAR circuit, and the only Formula One racing event in the United States. The area is home to 6 major professional teams: the NBA’s Indiana Pacers and the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts, the Arena Football League’s Indiana Firebirds, the IHL’s Indianapolis Ice and the Major League’s AAA Indianapolis Indians.
Hendricks County boasts more than a dozen golf courses and its system of parks provides a venue for various athletic events as well as a host of festivals and events year-round, including summer concerts, old fashioned days, the winterland festival of lights, and others. Easy access to Indianapolis enables visits to city parks, the zoo, the canal walk, golf courses and other outdoor sites.

Performing Arts and Museums
While proximity and quick access to Indianapolis provides Hendricks County residents ample opportunity to enjoy major-city arts, many organizations right at home enable them to enjoy and participate in them. Hendricks County boasts a choral club, painters group, garden club, civic theatre and other arts venues.
With Indianapolis cultural amenities centered in the downtown area, Hendricks County
residents can enjoy a variety of entertainment options within a short 20-minute drive. Indianapolis boasts a symphony, repertory
theatre, opera, ballet, and many other cultural outlets.

Hendricks County enjoys a rich heritage that can be enjoyed by exploring the county museum and also through a variety of local organizations such as the Guilford Township Historical Society and the Fairfield Historical Society. A quick drive to Indianapolis provides access to a host of venues including the world’s largest Children’s Museum, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Conner Prairie Pioneer Settlement, Indianapolis Museum of Art, NCAA Hall of Champions Museum and others.