Unique & Hidden Gem Activities for Families
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The Licking County Historic Jail
Tours & hunts in a 19th-century building. Built in 1889, this Richardson Romanesque jail hosts flashlight tours, ghost hunts & other events.
The Works
Hands-on exhibits & a glass studio. Venue featuring interactive history, science & technology exhibits, plus a glass-blowing studio.
The Sherwood-Davidson House Museum
Cozy Federal-style home with antiques. Federal-style house built in 1815, featuring exhibits of pioneer housewares & Victorian furniture.
Heisey Glass Museum
Glass displays, auctions & a gift shop. Heisey pressed & blown-glass collections on display, with a gift shop & periodic auctions.
Webb House Museum
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Escape It Escape Rooms, LLC
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Great Circle Earthworks and Museum, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Museum & tours of geometric earthworks. Museum offering interactive displays & tours explaining the ancient geometric earthworks.
Horns Hill Park
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22 Acres Farm & Venue
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The Dawes Arboretum
Scenic destination with miles of trails. Miles of trails weave through the scenic grounds of this longtime arboretum with a historic home.
Licking Park District
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Spring Valley Nature Preserve
Picnicking & hiking on wooded trails. Wooded preserve on 45 acres featuring marked nature trails, an open field & a picnic shelter.
Flint Ridge State Memorial
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Better Together Playnasium
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Mission Oaks Gardens
Botanical garden with themed sections. Picturesque, landscaped gardens offering themed areas, guided tours & workshops.
Gahanna Woods State Nature Preserve
Trails, fields & forest on 99 acres. Wooded park with nature trails, notable for its spring wildflowers, swamp forest & woodland pools.
Magic Mountain Fun Center - East
Indoor/outdoor entertainment center. Year-round, indoor/outdoor family fun center with mini-golf, go-karts, an arcade & batting cages.
Blendon Woods Metro Park
Park with a nature center & disc golf. This 653-acre park offers a waterfowl refuge & a nature center plus disc golf & ice-skating.
AHA! A Hands-On Adventure A Children's Museum
Interactive play center for young kids. Colorful indoor play park with more than 30 interactive exhibits for children under age 8.
LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus
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Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Garden with plant & art exhibitions. 88 acres of indoor/outdoor art- & nature-based exhibits, greenhouses & landscaped grounds.
Franklin Park Adventure Center
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Rickenbacker Woods Foundation & Learning Center
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Kelton House Museum & Garden
Mansion showcasing 19th-century life. Historic home & garden, once a stop on the Underground Railroad, with exhibits on 19th-century life.
Topiary Park
Garden featuring sculptural landscaping. Quiet park featuring landscape plants artistically trimmed to recreate a famous Seurat painting.
Central Ohio Fire Museum, llc
History exhibits in a 1908 engine house. 1908 engine house, now a museum offering firefighting history exhibits & fire safety education.
Little Mouse House
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World's Largest Gavel
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Goodale Park
Landscaped park with skyline views. City park with skyline views surrounded by Victorian homes & featuring a playground & tennis.
Scioto Mile Promenade
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Orton Geological Museum
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Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
Hands-on science museum & planetarium. This large educational science center offers interactive exhibits, working labs & planetarium shows.
Grange Insurance Audubon Center
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Chadwick Arboretum
Green reserve with various gardens. These peaceful campus gardens showcase a variety of native & non-native plants & trees.
Breakout Games
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Olentangy Caverns | Rock & Gem Gift Shop
Ancient caverns with Delaware history. The local Delaware tribe used to inhabit these caverns, now accessible for tours in season only.
Fun City Adventure Park
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