10 Fun Ways to Spend Time with Friends in St. Louis Park and Golden Valley, MN

Group Activities

A Top-10 Guide for Time with Friends

Planning an enjoyable outing with family or friends? This roundup highlights 10 ways to spend time together in St. Louis Park and Golden Valley, even though the original list describes the top 11 activities to do with your pals.

April 10, 2025

Brookview Golf & Lawn Bowling

For outdoor recreation, Brookview Golf & Lawn Bowling is a go-to destination. In the warmer months, Brookview features the largest lawn bowling green in the state, with 8 rinks available for play. Visitors can also use the 18-hole regulation golf course, par-3 course and driving range. Once winter arrives, the site offers two 18-hole disc golf courses and 4 pub curling rinks. The property also includes Three One Six Bar + Grill and a large outdoor firepit, making it a fitting choice for family, friend or coworker gatherings.

Copperwing & Dampfwerk Distilleries

Two operating distilleries sit directly across from each other in Skunk Hollow, also called the Distillery District. Copperwing Distillery is a grain-to-glass micro distillery producing gin, vodka, bourbon, fresas (a strawberry gin) and its signature vodskey – a bourbon mash distilled like vodka. Family-run Dampfwerk Distillery creates classical German-style spirits such as brandies, gins, aquavits and herbal liqueurs. Each cocktail room offers creative craft cocktails and mocktails designed to leave visitors in good spirits.

Fired Up Studios

Fired Up Studios offers families, friends and small groups a chance to share a clay date. During the 2-hour session, participants try the pottery wheel and shape a one-of-a-kind pot with guidance from Fired Up’s instructors. The studio supplies the tools, buckets and towels, then finishes and fires each piece using the participant’s chosen glaze. Classes suit couples, friends and groups of up to 8, and attendees must be 18+ only please. Clay Dates are super popular, so early booking is recommended.

Game Show Battle Rooms

Game Show Battle Rooms is one of the nation’s first game show experiences that everyone can enjoy. Groups compete against family and friends in custom arenas while a personal game show host facilitates the action. Participants can select Classic Showdowns or Primetime Showdowns, with games including Survey Battles (aka Family Feud™) and Spin and Solve (aka Wheel of Fortune™). The format works especially well for groups of 6 or more.

Park Tavern Bowling & Entertainment Center

Park Tavern is a retro-cool restaurant, bar and bowling alley that has attracted local visitors for over 60 years. Its amenities include over 20 bowling lanes, an arcade, billiards, darts, dining, big screen TVs for watching the game and a full-service bar. On Friday and Saturday nights, guests ages 21+ can enjoy cosmic bowling from 9 pm until close.

Weekly programming includes little-known-facts trivia on Mondays and Wednesdays and bingo on Tuesdays. In warm weather, visitors can use the spacious patio, play corn hole or bocce ball, and hear live music every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening.

Pavek Museum

The Pavek Museum offers a retro-focused look at one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of vintage radio and television equipment. Exhibits include an AEG Magnetophon, an RCA Theremin, a Spark Gap Generator and a Philco Mystery Control Radio. The museum also displays vintage game consoles.

Punch Bowl Social

Punch Bowl Social combines food, drinks and a wide range of games. The venue is known for legendary punches, craft beverages with or without booze, scratch kitchen food that’s fit for foodies and numerous entertainment options. Groups can play bowling, ping pong, billiards and bocce ball, along with Giant Scrabble, Giant Jenga, bonzini and foosball. There is also a karaoke room and a vintage arcade filled with favorite games. Punch Bowl Social stays open until midnight on weekdays and 2 am on Fridays and Saturdays.

Schullers Tavern

From October through April, Schullers Tavern hosts some of the best local bands in town every Saturday night. The family-owned gathering place, known as the Last Real Roadhouse, serves salads, sandwiches, pizzas and award-winning black angus tavern burgers. It also contains Minnesota’s smallest liquor store. Bands generally begin around 8 pm and continue until midnight.

Skylab Glass Arts

Skylab is a hip new lampworking and glass arts facility in Golden Valley. Lampworking is a glassblowing technique in which a fix mounted torch melts and shapes glass into a desired form. Beginning classes require no experience necessary: participants put on safety glasses, work at a torch and learn to turn colored glass into pendants, wine stoppers, drinking straws and other pieces. Everyone keeps their finished creation as a handmade souvenir. Classes are designed for small groups of up to 8 and recommended for ages 10+.

Warehouse Winery

Warehouse Winery operates as both a winery and an eclectic event space. Its wines pair Marquette cold climate grapes with some of the best Northern California grapes, resulting in cabernet sauvignon, frontenac, syrah, merlot, zinfandel, a wide variety of red blends and a few whites. On the last Wednesday of every month, Wine Down Wednesday features tastings of up to 5 wines, a glass of a favorite selection, light appetizers and live entertainment.