Have you ever been to the Ohio State Reformatory? You may have also heard it as the Mansfield Reformatory. It is located in Mansfield, Ohio. I have heard about it over the years but we never went to check it out until recently. We actually went to tour the place this past weekend. It was built in 1886 through 1910…
One of my favorite places to hike and picnic is at Conkle’s Hollow, Hocking Hills. Conkle’s Hollow is a Nature Preserve located in the Hocking Hills Region of Ohio. There are many state parks, preserves, and hiking trails in the area. The biggest and most popular is Old Man’s Cave. Conkle’s Hollow was named for W.J. Conkle who carved his…
Hocking Hills, Cedar Falls “This remote, primitive chasm is laden with hemlock and bound by steep rock walls and their accompanying grottos and waterfalls. It is a wild and lonely but spectacularly beautiful place. Cedar Falls itself is the greatest waterfall in terms of volume in the Hocking region. Queer Creek tumbles over the face of the Blackhand sandstone displaying…
When we went to Dayton a few weeks ago to go to the US Air Force Museum, we stopped at RiverScape Metro Park before we headed back home. There’s a few things to do there in the summer and even in the winter including ice skating. At the park there is a pavilion where events are sometimes held. Alongside the…
A few weeks ago we headed down to Dayton, Ohio for something to do. We checked out the US Air Force Museum and before heading home we stopped at the River Scape Metro Park. We wanted to make sure we saw the Five River Fountain of Lights before we left. It’s a really impressive fountain. It’s actually one of the…
This is my last post in my mini vacation blog series. A couple weeks ago we took a trip up to Lake Erie and visited Put In Bay. Took a ferry ride over and explored the island. One of the areas we stopped at for some fun with the kids was Perry’s Cave Family Fun Center. Located there along with…
This is my latest installment of our mini vacation series when we went up to Lake Erie and visited Put In Bay Island. My previous posts will be linked at the bottom if you want to read my previous posts. This post is about Perry’s Cave Family Fun Center at Put In Bay Island. We wanted to find something to…
This is the next post in our Mini Vacation blog series. In the last post, I wrote about our experience with Miller Boatline or Miller Ferry when we took a ride over to Put In Bay. Oh, it was so much fun. This post is about after we got to Put In Bay and what we did while we were…
About a week and a half ago, my husband and I decided we wanted to go do something since he had some vacation time off work. We love visiting state parks and taking the kids on hiking trips. We have been to most of the parks and hiking trails that are kind of close by on multiple occasions so we…
This is part 2 of my Seneca Caverns post. To start at the beginning and read about the caverns, check out my Seneca Caverns Part 1 post. It was pretty cool to check out! This part of my post is about the Caveman Mining activity our two boys tried out. If you want to do this activity, you have to…