Green Bay, Wisconsin: Packers Heritage Trail Plaza

Visitors to Green Bay often will stumble upon a sign indicating that they are staring at something that used to have some significance in the history of the Green Bay Packers. They have stumbled on the Packers' Heritage Trail.

The trail is designed as something of a walking tour and covers the first 50 years of the franchise, going from 1919 to 1968. Those were the days of Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi. It covers an old office building, the birthplace of Lambeau, a train station where thousands greeted the world champion Packers in 1929, and several other locations.

The center piece was in the middle of downtown, the Packers Heritage Trail Plaza, and it debuted in 2013. This plaza had statues of such people as Johnny "Blood" McNally and Paul Hornung. Look for it at Washington and Cherry Streets. But an apartment complex is going up in that space, as of 2026. Therefore, the statues and other materials from the plaza have gone into storage. The Foundation will build a new plaza at some point. In the meantime, the rest of the trail is open for business.