Road trips · Ohio

Ohio road trips & hidden gems.

The stops worth changing a travel day for in Ohio — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.

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Longaberger Basket Building

A seven-story office building shaped exactly like a giant picnic basket, handles and all, near Newark — one of America's great oddball roadside buildings in the central Ohio countryside.

Field of Corn

A surreal grid of 109 human-height concrete ears of corn standing in a Dublin field, a quirky tribute to the area's farming roots just outside Columbus.

Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick

A small, genuinely eerie museum of occult artifacts and folk magic in Cleveland — a fascinating rainy-day detour for anyone drawn to the strange.

Sugarcreek Cuckoo Clock

The world's largest cuckoo clock looming over the sidewalk in Sugarcreek, the "Little Switzerland of Ohio," set in the heart of Amish Country's rolling hills.

Gravity Hill in Richfield

Put your car in neutral and feel it roll uphill on a quiet country road near Richfield — a free, baffling optical-illusion stop between Cleveland and Akron.

Ernest Warther Museum and Gardens

A self-taught master cutler carved working ebony-and-ivory locomotives so intricate the Smithsonian came calling, all here in Dover with his wife's button collection and the family gardens.

Public golf you can book in Ohio.

Avalon Lakes Golf Course

Warren · $$$ — Dye design, Liddy as project architect

Ohio State Scarlet Course

Columbus · $$$ — MacKenzie design restored by Nicklaus

The Virtues Golf Club

Nashport · $$$ — Nicklaus's celebrated Ohio public design

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