Information on Fall Rally Area
Waynesville, Ohio
Older than the state of Ohio, the village of Waynesville offers a fascinating combination of history and culture as it developed in southwestern Ohio. This "Antiques Capital of the Midwest sm" and "Home of the Ohio Sauerkraut Festival" is a microcosm of our American heritage with its dreams and accomplishments.
Founded before Ohio even became a state, a trip to Waynesville is like stepping back in time. Waynesville has earned an unsurpassed reputation for its variety of antique shops and unique treasures.
Waynesville's shops are a premier destination for beginning and discriminating collectors alike. Find re-finished and original-condition pieces, the finest Shaker-inspired Windsor Chairs, or seemingly endless yards of fabric at Waynesville’s unique shops.
Loveland Ohio
Loveland, Ohio, best known for its name, is a northeast suburb of Cincinnati, tucked into the corners of three counties. It's a growing place, with strong schools and solid government, and a passionate community devoted to education, the arts, and the good of the community. Loveland offers a diverse business environment, a great selection of neighborhoods, and many unique natural assets. It's a great place to live, work, do business, enjoy leisure activities, and visit!
The Loveland community has a lot going for it. The Little Miami State and National Scenic River runs through town, with plenty of spaces to skip rocks, canoe or have a riverside picnic. Loveland is also one of the more lively stops along the Little Miami Scenic Bike Trail, which runs 75 miles from Springfield to Newtown. We have a real balance of small-community feel with growth and development. People want to be here.
Clifton Gorge
This 268-acre preserve protects one of the most spectacular dolomite and limestone gorges in the state. Registered as a National Natural Landmark in 1968, Clifton Gorge encompasses a 2-mile stretch of the Little Miami State and National Scenic River, just east of John Bryan State Park.
Geologically, it is an outstanding example of interglacial and post-glacial canyon cutting. At one point, the river funnels through a deep, narrow channel, which was apparently formed by the enlarging and connecting of a series of potholes in the resistant Silurian dolomite bedrock. In other sections of the gorge, cliff overhangs have broken off forming massive slump blocks scattered along the valley floor.
The shaded, north-facing slopes provide a cool, moist environment for northern species including hemlock, red baneberry, Canada yew, arbor-vitae and mountain maple. This is one of the most spectacular sites in the state for viewing spring wildflowers including the rare snow trillium.
Ohio Sauerkraut Festival
The Ohio Sauerkraut Festival has grown from a small local event in 1970 to one of the premier craft festivals in the nation. We jury our 450+ vendors to ensure that all items are handcrafted, and select items based on quality and variety.
Our unique food offerings range from sauerkraut pizza to fudge. Visitors return year after year to sample their favorites, making the Ohio Sauerkraut Festival a favorite Midwest destination.
The Ohio Sauerkraut Festival is a top ranked event featuring an eclectic mix of arts and crafts from sculptures to ceramics to paintings to woodworking, and more, providing you with the opportunity to find unique gifts for you or for those on your holiday list. And with all of the crowds in the streets, it's a perfect time to shop along the resident stores.
Ozone Zipline Adventure
Guests will suit up and fly on zip lines breezing through and above the canopy of the Little Miami River valley. Two tour guides will escort each group of up to 8 participants from platform to platform. We offer 4 different tour options (plus night zipping!) that will have you traversing sky bridges, and zipping to and from a 45 foot tall multi-level central zip tower.
As an educational canopy tour guests will get an insight into everything from 500 million year old fossils to 2000 year old Native American earthworks, to current issues of water conservation and habitat loss, to local flora and fauna from our professional tour guides. Ozone Zipline Adventures will delight riders with its unique vantage point to view millions of years of history while providing thrilling experiences riders won’t soon forget.
Caesar Creek Soaring Club
The Caesar Creek Soaring Club (CCSC) is one of the largest and oldest soaring clubs in the United States. As the largest Club east of the Mississippi, we offer the best soaring in Ohio. The purpose of CCSC is to encourage the sport and art of soaring; to host the Region Six South contest and other soaring events; and to encourage people of all ages to learn to soar.
The club currently has about 200 members. It provides flight instruction, club sailplanes for members use, and introductory flights for the general public. The members of Caesar Creek Soaring Club invite you to join us in the experience of pure flight.
CCSC owns eight sailplanes and three tow planes (see Our Fleet page). CCSC is also home to more than 35 privately owned gliders. Members volunteer their time one day a month as instructors, tow pilots and ground handlers for flying on weekends and Wednesdays all year round. As a result CCSC has some of the lowest flight costs in the country.
Kings Island
Kings Island is a 364-acre (147 ha) amusement park located 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio, United States. It is owned and operated by Cedar Fair. The park first opened in 1972 by the Taft Broadcasting Company in an effort to move and expand Coney Island, a popular resort destination along the banks of the Ohio River that was prone to frequent flooding. After more than $275 million in capital investments, the park features over 80 rides, shows and attractions including 14 roller coasters and a 33-acre (13 ha) water park.
Throughout its history, Kings Island has appeared in popular sitcoms and has received widespread recognition for its record-breaking attractions and events. One of the park's most well-known attractions, The Racer, is often credited with reviving worldwide interest in roller coasters during the 1970s. Others, such as The Beast and Banshee, have set several world records including some of which are still standing. The park has also suffered through times of negative publicity, particularly surrounding the early demise of roller coasters The Bat and Son of Beast.
Kings Island is divided into several themed sections. The seasonal amusement park is open from early spring through Labor Day and reopens for a short time on weekends beginning in September for Halloween-themed events. In 2014, Kings Island was the second-most visited seasonal amusement park in the United States behind Cedar Point with an estimated 3.2 million visitors. It was third overall for seasonal attendance in North America, which was led by Canada's Wonderland. Kings Island has won Amusement Today's Golden Ticket Award for having the "Best Kids' Area" in the world for fifteen consecutive years (2001–2015).
Caesar Creek State Park
Caesar Creek State Park is one of the premier outdoor recreation and nature preserve areas in the state of Ohio. The seventy-nine hundred acre park offers a wide variety of recreational and educational opportunities. You can have an exciting week of boating and camping with your family, revel in the quite solitude of a deeply wooded hiking trail, or simply stand and enjoy the clear blue skies and crisp breeze of a growing meadow.
Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village
Caesar's Creek Pioneer Village is a historically recreated community in Caesar Creek State Park, located in Waynesville, Ohio, United States. The village was formed when historic buildings were moved here in order to save them from destruction from the creation of Caesars Creek Lake.[1]
The village consists of an open-air collection of over 15 restored log cabins and other buildings from the 18th century and early 19th century. The log buildings are open during special events, but can be viewed from the outside year round. The village is maintained and operated by a private non-profit organization. The buildings include a Quaker meetinghouse, a broom shed, a pioneer school house, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, toll house and many family houses.
Ohio Renaissance Festival
The Ohio Renaissance Festival features over 100 shows daily on 11 stages. Hold your breath watching the dueling swordsmen, daring fire jugglers. Shriek with laughter at the hilarious Mudde Show! Enjoy the strolling minstrels or sit down in the Aleing Knight Pub for toe-tapping tunes.
Enjoy meeting the villagers of Willy-Nilly as you browse through the quaint village. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth graces the village as she visits on progress and is always excited to meet you!
Thrill to the death-defying full armored joust! Hard hits delivered three times each day by the gallant knights and gorgeous steeds of the Knights of Valour.
Fort Ancient State Memorial
Fort Ancient (33 WA 2)[2] is a collection of Native American earthworks located in Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, along the eastern shore of the Little Miami River about seven miles (11 km) southeast of Lebanon on State Route 350. The site is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States[3] with three and one-half miles (18,000 ft) of walls in a 100-acre (0.40 km2) complex. Built by the Hopewell peoples, who lived in the area from the 1st century BC to the 6th century AD, the site is situated on a wooded bluff 270 feet (82 m) above the Little Miami. It is the namesake of a culture known as Fort Ancient, who lived near the complex long after it was constructed.
Maintained as a state historical park, the site was designated a National Historic Landmark for its significance. In addition, this is part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, one of 14 sites nominated in January 2008 by the U.S. Department of the Interior for potential submission by the United States to the UNESCO World Heritage List.[4]
Canoe and Kayaking
River's Edge Outfitters
Morgans Canoe
Little Miami Canoe
Loveland Canoe
Scenic River Canoe Excursions
The Secret Garden
For a truly unique shopping experience, come walk the pathways through our wooded garden while soft music fills the air.
The Secret Garden offers a wide variety of unique made-in-America garden art.
We also have a wonderful gift shop for gift giving ~ find something unique and different for the home.
Glendower State Memorial
Glendower, now known as Glendower State Memorial or Glendower Mansion, is an historic Greek Revival style house located at 105 Cincinnati Avenue, U.S. Route 42, Cincinnati Avenue, in Lebanon, Ohio. It was built in 1836 by Amos Bennett for John Milton Williams, a Lebanon merchant, and named for Owen Glendower. It has been called "one of the finest examples of the Greek Revival architecture in the Middle West."
On November 10, 1970, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
Valley Vineyards
You’ll find nationally award-winning, estate-grown table and dessert wines from our vineyards in the Ohio River Valley Appellation. Since 1970, the Schuchter family has been dedicated to bringing you a wide variety of fine wines, and now, craft beers.
Valley Vineyards is located in Morrow, Ohio between Dayton and Cincinnati, a region of glaciated soils especially beneficial for growing premium wine grapes.
At Valley Vineyards, join us for weekend cookouts, wine and beer tasting, good food and friendly people in a congenial atmosphere. Our family invites you.
La Comedia Dinner Theater
Dinner theater Featuring first rate plays and dining.
Lebanon Grand Opry House
The Lebanon Grand Opry House has been called the finest & most reasonabe place for great Country Music this side of Nashville, TN. Jessie-Lyn and The Amazing TNT Band, along with many differant local entertainers will reel you back in time with all the Classic Country Sounds. Do you enjoy George Jones, Merle Haggard, Patsy Cline, Tammy Wyanette along with Alan Jackson and Geotge Strait, to name a few. Let our entertainers perform these great tunes for you, in a Grand Opry Stlye performence.
Little Miami Scenic Trail and River
The Little Miami Scenic Trail begins in Newtown, in Hamilton County, and travels approximately 75 miles to the northeast to Springfield, in Clark County. Portions of the Little Miami Scenic Trail parallel the river for which it's named, winding serenely through the beautiful countryside of Southwestern Ohio. This trail is also part of the statewide Buckeye Trail, the North Country National Scenic Trail and the statewide Ohio-to-Erie Trail.
A tale of two trails, the Little Miami Scenic Trail has two distinct personalities. South of Spring Valley, Ohio the trail hugs the banks of the Little Miami River providing a well-shaded, meandering ride with occasional respites in small towns, like Corwin and Oregonia. You’ll pass canoe liveries; quaint eateries; Ft. Ancient and then pass the very modern attractions of Kings Island in Mason. Loveland and Terrace Park will welcome you even further south.
North of Spring Valley, the route follows historic rail corridors and links larger cities such as Xenia and Springfield, through Yellow Springs. The City of Xenia boasts Xenia Station, a restored railroad station that sits at the hub of four trails that meet in Xenia. Nine miles north reaches Yellow Springs, a vibrant village next to John Bryan State Park and the Glen Helen nature preserve. Along the reach to downtown Springfield, you’ll pass rolling farm land and Young’s Jersey Dairy.
Workshops of David T. Smith
On a Warren County, Ohio country road you will find a family home and business that dates back more than 35 years. Today this house is home not only to David T. Smith and his family, but also to the many skilled designers, cabinetmakers, finishers, potters, and other artisans that the business employs. The village-like atmosphere of board and batten shops that encircle the 1720s Connecticut-style salt box home has become known as "The Workshops of David T. Smith."
In the early 1970's, building on the farm David's father purchased in 1929, David completed construction of the home where he, his wife Lora, and three small children would reside. Through the late 70s, while working a full-time job, David began restoring and rebuilding antiques for antique dealers, collectors, and museums. He experimented with "aged" painted finishes and developed a line of reproductions to market to the public. By 1980, with local resources for aged lumber and antique parts exhausted, David left his full-time job to devote himself to reproducing American antique furniture reproductions in New England, Shaker, and Pennsylvania German styles. The business began as "David T. Smith - Cabinetmakers and Grainers."
Turtlecreek Potters, still operating on the grounds today, originated in 1984. In an attempt to fulfill the need for hard-to-find quality accessories for his furniture line, David spent many hours in museums and their archives researching early American redware. He developed an original lead glaze and built an outdoor wood fired kiln. The result was a very authentic line of redware plates and thrown forms that antique and pottery collectors embraced. After the success of the pottery, and with a desire to expand and enhance the onsite creative American crafts atmosphere, a blacksmith forge and carving shop were added. The business then became "The Workshops of David T. Smith."
In 1990, Rodale Press published American Country Furniture - Projects From The Workshops of David T. Smith, a chronicle and selection of furniture plans. American Country Furniture sold out in hardback and has been available in paperback form for many years. More recently, our work has been prominently featured in two books by Tim Tanner (Early American Country Homes and Early American Country Interiors) and in national magazines, including Old House Interiors' Early Homes and A Primitive Place & Country Journal, in which David frequently contributes as a writer. Throughout the years, The Workshops has been honored to be featured in numerous national magazines, books, and publications.
Though the speciality is in traditional means of crafting furniture, modern technology is principal in the design department--a simple sketch or idea can be transformed into detailed elevation drawings and plan views complete with accessories and fully color rendered. Our photo archive is vast--thousands more photos than the considerable selection already available on our website. This inspiring and informative collection is utilized and made available to our furniture and kitchen clients throughout their design process.
The first kitchen that David completed was in his home that was built in 1971. He still lives in the same house, but he has updated that kitchen--just one of the over 400 handmade kitchens designed, built, and installed all over the USA. In addition to developing kitchens that are super functional, one-of-a-kind designs, The Workshops can help transform the rest of your home with architecural furniture that is complimentary to the kitchen, soapstone, accessories, and other design aspects.
David spends the bulk of his time drawing and designing kitchens, and is passionate about the continuum and promotion of all quality American made crafts. Visit the shop to browse the showroom, view a demo in the pottery, or take a quick tour of David's own Collected Kitchen. David's wife Lora, daughters Kelly and Julie, and grandson Cody all share his love for the work and are involved in the everyday running of the business.
LM&M Railroad
The Lebanon Mason Monroe Railroad (LM&M Railroad) operating from Historic Downtown Lebanon offers scenic train rides through Southwestern Ohio in Warren County.
These nostalgic train rides present passengers with the opportunity to learn about local history and railroad operations while creating everlasting memories with family and friends. The unique location of the Historic Downtown Lebanon grants visitors the ability to experience the local splendor through shopping and dining in the charming tourist town.
National Museum of the US Air Force
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force galleries present military aviation history, boasting more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles on display -- many rare and one-of-a-kind -- along with thousands of historical items and powerful sensory exhibits that bring history to life and connect the Wright brothers' legacy with today's stealth and precision technology. We invite you to take an online glimpse of our galleries by clicking on a gallery name to see exhibits, including aircraft, engines, equipment and weapons of the USAF.
Golden Lamb
When Jonas Seaman traveled from New Jersey to Ohio in 1803 and spent $4 for a license to operate a “house of Public Entertainment” on Broadway in the newly-founded village of Lebanon, he could never have imagined that more than 200 years later his establishment would still be offering food and lodging for travelers. Seaman’s establishment got its name from the sign hung outside the business – an image of a golden lamb. In early times it was not uncommon for business to be associated with symbols as many in that period were unable to read.
The Golden Lamb owes its early success due to location – halfway between Cincinnati and the National Road (now U.S. Route 40). The Golden Lamb has hosted a number of historical figures, including 12 United States Presidents (from as far back as John Quincy Adams to as recent as George W. Bush), and today is still serving excellent cuisine to guests from all over the country.
Since 1803, we've been a community gathering place for neighbors, travelers, statesmen, presidents, families and friends. Our legacy runs deep - infused with a spirit of hospitality, accented by the flavors of history and framed by inspiring events. We are proud to be one of America's most historical inns, and Ohio's oldest continually operated business. We have captured the rich heritage of the nearby Shaker settlement, Wisdom's Paradise, in two museum rooms filled with period Shaker furniture and rare artifacts.
The history of our innkeepers over two centuries is displayed in the museum room of a 19th century innkeeper's daughter, Sara. The family of the inn's longest-serving innkeeper, Robert Jones, who purchased the property in 1926 continue to own the Golden Lamb today. We invite you to share our hospitality making your own new memories.
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