Changing your perspectives of the same old places makes you fall in love with Northeast Ohio all over again. Possibilities abound in the serendipitous season of summer, with the closeness of everything an advantage when reality gives only a short break from the everyday. The totality of the beauty of Lake Erie sunsets, the parks with their trees and wineries and outdoor concerts on lawns and town squares is hard to match anywhere.
Discover that you don’t need to fly away to become engaged in your surroundings. Plan a day trip, a weekend or even longer to relax and get to know more about the close-by beyond. Walk the strip to take in old-time attractions like Skee-Ball, eat cotton candy and hot dogs, hit the beach, play at the oldest mini golf course in the country and take a spin in a go-kart.
See the sunset from a zipline or challenge the kids to a pint-sized canopy tour. It all started with friends and automobile pioneers Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller and Harvey Firestone, who enjoyed camping there more than a century ago.
Their inventions made it possible to get away by car for weekends in the fresh lake breezes. And their descendants still come. Rental cottages and bed and breakfasts abound.
Details: visitgenevaonthelake.com and lakeeriecanopytours.com .
Most trips on this historic railway are two hours as the train follows the Ohio & Erie Canal through the 33,000-acre Cuyahoga Valley National Park , Ohio’s only national park, along the Cuyahoga River between Clevel.
