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| BB Riverboat Several, side-wheeler riverboats available for scheduled tours and cruises ranging from lunch, dining, sightseeing or mini vacations. Located at Covington Landing in Kentucky across the Blue Suspension Bridge from Cincinnati's Paul Brown Stadium. For more information, phone 859-261-8500 or (toll-free) 800-261-8586 - or - see their web site: www.bbriverboats.com Beach WaterPark At exit 25 of I-71 (in Kings Mills) you'll find 35 acres of fun. They claim over 2 million gallons of water, 40,000 square feet of clean, white beach sand and some 40 rides and attractions. For more information, see their web site: www.thebeachwaterpark.com Camp Dennison Civil War Museum Once one of the largest Union Army training facilities covering some 500 acres, Camp Dennison is not the site of Civil War re-enactments and one of the most complete museums of Civil War artifacts. You'll find it on OH-126 just north of US-50 and Milford OH. For more information, see their web site: www.campdennison.org Cincinnati Museum Center Here, in a renovated art deco train terminal, you'll be able to visit the Cincinnati History Museum, Cinergy Children's Museum and the Museum of Natural History & Science. A new exhibit, Cincinnati in Motion, is a scale model of incinnati prior to 1940 and includes working model trains and trams. For more information, see their web site: www.cincymuseum.org Cincinnati Nature Center Made up of three well-separated campuses (see their web site for details), one of them, Rowe Woods) is almost 800 acres with 14 miles of nature trails. The other two, Long Branch Farm is 535 acres and the third, Gorman Heritage Farm is 100 acres. There is a lot to be learned, here, and they have programmed much of it into a very enjoyable, quite painless experience. The kids, young and old, love it. See their web site: www.cincynature.org |
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Here, in the middle of Cincinnati, are some of the rarest animals. The Botanical Garden maintains over 3,000 varieties of plants. (see their web site for directions) For more information, see their web site: www.cincyzoo.org Coney Island Reputed to be the most successful amusement park ever, Coney Island has a fascinating history (see their web site). It also operates the largest recirculating swimming pool in the world. But there is so much more. See their web site: www.coneyislandpark.com Fort Ancient Out past King's Island in Lebanon are the 2,000+ year-old earthworks (built by the Hopewell Indians). These circular mounds are thought to have been used as a sort of calendar. Here, also, are the remains of an Indian village. A museum on this 100 acre site helps explain the history and culture of the Hopewell Indians. For more information, see: www.ohiohistory.org/places/ftancien/ (Paramont) King's Island This large amusement park in Kings Mills boasts over 300 rides and attractions for young and old. Among them is "the world's tallest and fastest" wooded roller coaster. A 30-acre water park offers some two dozen water slides, etc., and a busy schedules of constantly changing shows is designed to entertain to older ones on the family. For more information, see their web site: www.pki.com |
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