Entertainment Districts in Fargo

Downtown Fargo's Broadway corridor is the most vibrant entertainment district in the northern plains — a beautifully revitalized downtown where outstanding independent restaurants, excellent craft bars, and cultural venues create an entertainment experience that has attracted national attention as one of America's most impressive small-city downtown revitalizations. Fargo's extraordinary combination of tech industry growth, genuine Great Plains community character, and remarkable independent business culture create a downtown entertainment district of genuine American small-city cultural significance.

Downtown Fargo's Broadway corridor presents restaurants, breweries, and bars serving North Dakota's largest city.

Fargo Air Museum hosts some of North Dakota's most unique entertainment events — air shows, hangar parties, and aviation heritage events that combine with Fargo's unexpectedly robust entertainment calendar to serve a community that takes community events seriously. North Dakota's aviation heritage, driven by its military bases and agricultural aviation sector, gives these events a distinctive regional character that draws audiences from throughout the Red River Valley.

Fargo's arts district along NP Avenue represents North Dakota's most creative urban environment — a former railroad corridor where galleries, outstanding independent restaurants, and excellent craft bars create the most sophisticated arts entertainment experience in the Great Plains. Fargo's remarkable creative economy and its genuine community investment in arts and culture create an arts district of unusual Great Plains cultural significance.

Island Park along the Red River presents a historic residential neighborhood with restaurants near downtown Fargo.

The area around North Dakota State University presents restaurants and bars serving the Bison campus community in Fargo.

Fargo's University Drive entertainment corridor serves the remarkable NDSU community — a Great Plains university district where the most successful FCS football program in history, excellent independent restaurants, and the vibrant student community create an entertainment environment of unusual academic and athletic significance.

Red River Zoo presents a family-friendly zoo focused on cold-climate species in south Fargo.