#ohiotravel

[gebracrafters]

Exploring the intricate beauty of Senecaville Lake, Ohio with this stunningly detailed wooden map. The craftsmanship truly brings the topography to life! 🌊🗺️

[bonnettsbooks]

3/9/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

These books are for the young-at-heart scientist & fun for *responsible* kids of ALL ages! Explore science, discover your surroundings.

[eyhier]

Why you shouldn't overlook Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Discover the breathtaking beauty of Ohio's hidden gem, Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Prepare to be inspired by its lush landscapes and enchanting trails.

[fantasiaplayers-ffxiv]

Why you shouldn't overlook Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Seeking a tranquil getaway in the heart of Ohio? Look no further than Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Embrace the beauty of this secret haven and reconnect with nature's awe-inspiring miracles.

[cat-chit-ananda]

One of the most affordable cities for families to travel is Cleveland, Ohio.

Looking for a wallet-friendly family vacation? Look no further than Cleveland, Ohio. Uncover amazing deals and create lasting memories.

[hiddengemsreal]

Uncover the Hidden Gems of Ohio with us! Discover the top-secret spots waiting to be explored in the heart of the USA. From picturesque landscapes to hidden historical sites, join Hidden Gems channel on an adventure through Ohio's best-kept secrets! Let's reveal Ohio's treasures together! #HiddenGems #OhioTravel #ExploreUSA #TravelInspiration #OffTheBeatenPath #DiscoverOhio #TravelOhio #HiddenOhio #trending #travelinspiration #travel #explore #reels #viral

[smalltowngirlohio]

COVID-Safe Summer Activity: Gardenview Flowers

Thanks to COVID19, at 31 years of age, I find myself living and quarantining back with my parents again. Even though we live in a nice house on five acres of land, something about living at home again makes everything feel like it’s too small, as if no one has any of their own personal space. Knowing that most people have also been stuck in the house with their families since March, I am sure that I am not alone in my feelings of slight claustrophobia. 

While it has been nice to reconnect with my family and small-town of origin, we’re all getting pretty stir crazy. Fortunately, one of the major benefits of living in the country or in a small-town during a pandemic is that you have plenty of space and opportunity to get outside and explore safely. Ohio is full of small-town wonders that exist just around every corner. 

One such small-town wonder is Gardenview Flowers. Sitting just a few miles outside of Grand Rapids, Ohio this garden farm offers a great COVID19-safe summer activity for friends, families, or dates! 

In my need to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE I have been searching for such activities that are out in the open and socially distant. For my anxiety, and extroversion, being stuck in the house for months on end is not healthy for me (and a lot of people I’m sure). Although I’ve heard from my introvert friends that they are doing just fine, ha! 

In my search for safe, outdoor activities I remembered Gardenview Flowers. This beautiful flower farm offers a U-Pick activity where guests can pay just $12 and spend as much time as they want wandering the fields of flowers, clipping and picking flowers until their vase is stuffed full. The fields are beautiful and the selection of flowers seem endless. So, I gathered up my mom and grandmother for a little day trip to pick some flowers. 

We decided to arrive early so that we would beat the August heat - something I would suggest to anyone who plans to attend - and to beat the rush of customers. We arrived and were greeted with an almost full parking lot! The secret was out, people have found and love Gardenview Flowers. It was so wonderful to see people walking around, picking flowers, and being respectfully socially distant. It almost felt like we weren’t in a pandemic, and for that feeling I am grateful. 

The staff were properly attired in masks and had sanitizing stations. All vases and flower clippers were sanitized before use by the next customer. During my time wandering around near other guests, I never once felt unsafe or in danger of contacting COVID19. Other guests had masks on when near each other, but otherwise when you are out in the fields you can be mask-free. We spent about 30-40 minutes picking our bouquet, but honestly we could have stayed longer. 

I had a great time picking flowers and bonding with my mom and grandmother, and highly suggest this as a wonderful activity to get outside and socialize safely. 

If you plan to visit, here are a few of my tips: 1. Plan to arrive early to beat the heat and rush of customers. Walking in garden fields during the summer can get very hot.  2. Keep in mind any allergies to plants that you might have and plan accordingly  3. Bring a bottle of water. They offer bottles of water for free, but it is always nice to bring your own.  4. Wear your sunglasses or hats  5. Wear old shoes, they will get dirty! 

For more information, visit their website“...residents can visit GardenView Flowers's U-Pick Flower Field & Flower Stop at 11160 South River Road in Grand Rapids, OH during summer months for upick flowers from our specialty cut flower field, as well as bouquets to go, dried flowers & gifts at our flower stop. GardenView also offers full service wedding flowers for couples in Ohio, Michigan & beyond.” 

U-Pick Flowers Dates of Operation 8AM-7PM EVERY DAY JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER CASH, CHECKS & VENMO ACCEPTED ON LOCATION

For $12, guests will receive a 4” cup to fill with as many flowers as they can fit ($14 to keep cylinder vase). Guests will be able to borrow clippers from GardenView Flowers for picking flowers.  

[welshhillsinn]

Loving the sunshine and celebrating the official first day of spring! Putting in this Dutch door many years ago has been such a great addition to our kitchen. #innwelshhills #welshhillsinn #tsgcolumbus #thescoutguide #thescoutguidecolumbus #stayselect #selectregistry #selectregistryinn #asseenincbus #asseenincbusohio #granvilleohio #granville #staycation #staycations #ohiobnb #ohiogetaway #tripadvisor #tripadvisorbestofthebest #ohiotravel https://www.instagram.com/p/CbVPZA3OA23/?utm_medium=tumblr

[typicallytwitterpated]

Seriously missing vacation and traveling now. Looking for a great adventure that is primarily outdoors and not too far away from Ohio. Where would you go? Double tap if you’re wishing you could be anywhere but here. #ohioblogger #ohiotraveler #ohiotravelbloggers #ohiotravel #clevelandblogger #nofilterphoto #nofilterneeded #missingthebeach #sunsetvibes #travelbucketlist https://www.instagram.com/p/CEhov-BJFDR/?igshid=2ryemg4kipyd

[hvacreferguy]

@comb2 sent me these amazing pics of a 75m capacity water tower from 1965 out in the woods near Cincinnati, Ohio. He was so right on sending these pics, I love this stuff. Awesome share. Be sure to check him out and give him a follow if you like what you see. #cinncinati #ohio #cinncinatiohio #woods #deepwoods #watertower #tower #followthisguy #travel #seethis #share #ohiostate #ohiotravel #love #green #❤️ #😍 #igdaily #igers #igaddict #igaddicts #ig_captures (at Cinncinati, Ohio)

[randomtowns]

Lorain, Ohio

It didn’t help my opinion of Lorain to have it always be gray each time I visited. Northeast Ohio just has this as its default setting, and any sunny weather is just a temporary fluke that will be resolved in just a few hours. Lake Erie, a beautiful jade color in the sun, is a foreboding, soupy swath that stretches infinitely to the horizon. There are rarely ships around Lorain. No one likes to go out on boats when the weather isn’t good, and the few commercial barges - mostly carrying coal - stick to the deeper channels, mostly out of view from the lake’s southern shore.

But it’s not just weather. Lorain is depressing and seems to know it’s depressing. Highway 6 is fronted by former hotels turned retirement homes, and its main street that follows the Black River upstream, Broadway Avenue, is haunted by abandonment and yellowing “for lease” signs. The few people around at the meeting of these two streets seem to be going in for court dates at the local courthouse. Lorain is still the seat of its namesake county. Most people rarely see the insides of courthouses beyond the odd traffic court appearance, where a friendly and empathetic judge shows his or her appreciation for your pleasant demeanor and punctuality by reducing your fine slightly, or even dismissing your ticket on a technicality if you show up in a shirt and tie. Instead, they’re mostly patronized by those caught in the system: the poor, the jobless, the addicted. And those groups all hang out outside seemingly before and after their court dates, usually to smoke. It’s caused me, over the years, to associate courthouses with the contradicting smells of low-quality cleaning products, artificially cooled air, and tobacco smoke.

Shipbuilding left long ago, and Ford closed its plant here in 2005 as part of a larger restructuring. US Steel still operates here. (That’s a sentence I’m sure I’ll have to revise within the next few years.) The steady decline of the steel industry has its larger poster children: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toledo, Detroit. The words “Rust Belt” leap to mind, along with images of crumbling warehouses and idle, rusted machinery. But those are larger cities and can at least mostly absorb the job loss. Pittsburgh, the most heavily reliant on steel for its economic vitality, has bounced back the most. But these cities retain a little bit of hipster and cool culture. The grittiness is attractive to some, and they wear their cities names like a badge of honor and proof of cool.

But then there are cities like Lorain. Lorain is not dead. Lorain is not Gary, Indiana or East Saint Louis. Instead Lorain has been limping along slowly throughout the decades. Lorain is not cool. No one moves to Lorain and then brags about it. It’s just far enough from Cleveland to not be able to take advantage of that area’s great nightlife, but is just close enough to be under its sphere of influence and fails to make its presence known. Most people from outside the region have never heard of Lorain. But it was still the 10th-largest city in Ohio in 2010, and its population has only seen a reasonable decline from its 1970 census peak of over 78,000.

The thing is that it’s a town full of nice people. There are nice houses, some nice parks and I could see it being a nice enough place to raise a family. But the stigma over its head as an industrial town has kept it from finding the same bedroom community fortune of some of its neighbors. As the country continues to deindustrialize, the future is not terribly bright for Lorain. Lorain will, of course, survive, but the thriving it needs (and probably deserves) is likely to remain out of reach.

[medictom]

Springfield, Ohio is a gem destination in the heart of the Buckeye State #findyourunwind #ad #Ohio @OhioFindItHere #review @greaterspringfield @spfldfarmersmarket @seasonsbistroandgrille⠀@champion_city_ ⠀ Go to my website from the link in my bio for the review! ~Tom ⠀ ⠀ @CourtyardHotels #OhioBlogger #travel #roadTrip #greaterspringfield #travelohio #exploreohio #ohioblogger #ohioexplored #Ohiofindithere #ohiotravel https://buff.ly/2ETHYgu (at Springfield, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpnNZoYFXVI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15tahxcndrmc3

[bgbl]

🌈Had a glamorous time at @renaissancetol #ohiotravel #ohiomodel #travelblog #hotel #beglamorousbylindsay

[w0ppe]

Calm, cool, punk . . . #columbus #columbusart #olivers #ohiophotographer #ohiophotography #photooftheday #photography #cyber #cyberpunk #snow #alley #highstreet #art #artistsoninstagram #artmakescbus #cbusmakesart #artist #travelphotography #travel #lowcontrast #nightphoto #nightphotography #ohiotravel #lights #lowlight #lowkey #cyberpunkart

[dianehoffmaster]

No trip to #cincinnati is complete without a 3 way! Delicious #cincinattichili at Dixie Chili! Absolutely yummy! #ohiotravel

[letlivelaures]

got a chance to explore Dayton OH...won't be the last time! • • • pc: @adam_grumbling #adventure #aesthetics #aesthetic #building #bold #canon #canont3i #explore #folklore #justshoot #justgoshoot #photooftheday #photographer #photography #rustic #travel #vintage #vintagestyle #beaphotographer #thetravelguru #vsco #vscocam #vscogood #instagood #unionohio #daytonohio #daytoninspires #wallpic #dayton #ohiotravel #ohiotrip (at Dayton, Ohio)