B&B Travel
Articles for Central area
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Brownsville
Brownsville is where you'll find the Flint Ridge Museum containing huge prehistoric quarry pits where prehistoric people produced tools and weapons. You are allowed to walk through the site and see how the flint was removed from the earth. Surrounded by a beautiful forest it is worthy of a visit. The hardwood forest has some magnificent trees and wildflowers in the spring and the fall's spectacular colours are breathtaking.
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Circleville
If you love the outdoors then visit Deer Creek State Park situated on the eastern edge of the great till plains of Ohio near Circleville. Wildflowers abound in the fields and woodlands of the plains and on a long ridge that once overlooked Deer Creek and its valley, you can explore ancient cultural sites where researchers have discovered evidence of an prehistoric Indian tribe dating from around 2,000 B.C.
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Columbus
Buck Creek State Park is located in Clark Co. about 48 miles west of Columbus, a pretty German village tucked in between farm fields, prairies and wetlands offering the visitor a range of interesting ethnic restaurants and good quality bed and breakfast in Ohio Central.
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Delaware
For an interesting day trip visit the Olentangy Indian Caverns in nearby Delaware, it's an exceptional opportunity to explore Native American culture and there’s a museum recreating Native American dwellings. The Columbus Museum of Art features spectacular examples of works by Degas, Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Cassatt, Bellows, Demuth, Hopper, Marin, and O'Keeffe.
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Granville
Buckeye Lake State Park is located near the towns of Granville, Heath, and Baltimore, this park dates back to Ohio's historic canal era and has remained a popular vacation spot for over a century.
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Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is a pretty tree lined town with a variety of plush little antique shops and restaurants and has one of the most recognizable civil war era monuments of a soldier looking south in honour of those on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line that fought and died for their beliefs.
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Newark
Newark with its wonderful maple trail through the Nature Center and where you can visit Daweswood House Museum and the Dawes Arboretum. The arboretum is situated on 315 acres about 5 miles south of Newark and plays host to more than 2,000 species of trees and shrubs. A short drive will take you to the Cypress Swamp, a picturesque Japanese Garden that has been recently judged as being one of the 10 best in the United States.
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Westerville
Westerville provides visitors of all ages with an extraordinary chance to marvel at the Inniswood Metro Gardens, encompassing 120 acres of cultivated and wild natural beauty with over 2,000 species, the beautifully planned landscapes of flower-beds and tended lawns are accented by the diversity of wildlife, woodlands and wildflowers.
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