Category: Historic Towns
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Triple Nickel highway may be Ohio’s twistiest road
State Route 555, a 63-mile two-lane highway that winds from Zanesville in the north to Little Hocking in the south, has near-legendary status for motorcycle riders and driving enthusiasts..
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Buckeye Lake, Part 1
I’ve posted about Buckeye Lake before. Recently I made a circle tour of the lake, starting at the village of Buckeye Lake and going counter-clockwise.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires – Fairfield County’s Baltimore is growing quietly
Baltimore, Ohio, located in Fairfield County about halfway between Buckeye Lake and Lancaster, is one of those quiet, peaceful, nondescript towns that is a good place to raise a family but otherwise seems pretty common.
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Vermilion has history as colorful as its name
A town that is as colorful as its name, Vermilion, Ohio, was founded in 1837 and is now one of the most-visited port towns on the Great Lakes.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: National Road Yard Sale
I recently traveled on US 40, the National Road, in Muskingum and Licking counties to visit a number of yard sales during the National Road Yard Sale week.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Licking County Lore
Spring has arrived, and with it a new season of Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires trips around the state. Today, we’re exploring the Licking County communities of Alexandria, Johnstown and Hartford, plus a look at the Hartford Independent Fairgrounds and the enigmatic village of Lock.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: A Three-Buggy Day
Each year, my extended family and I go on an extended weekend getaway to a cabin, usually either in the Hocking Hills area or in the Mohican or Amish Country area. My mother started this years ago as a Christmas gift to the family.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Two mills remain in Muskingum County
At the height of the era of old country mills in Ohio, there were 18 such mills in Muskingum County. Now there are only two venerable mills that remain standing in the county, both along Jonathan Creek in Newton Township.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace Part 2
This week we’re picking up where we left off on Zane’s Trace. We’ll drive from Lancaster to Chillicothe on US 22 and SR 159, in general following the trail of the historic Zane’s Trace.
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Here is the video — Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace, Part 1
Subscribers, here’s the video link that was omitted from the original blog post from earlier today. Apologies for the operator error in not attaching the link!
