VISITORS GUIDE Youngstown Mahoning County Mahoning County Convention & Visitors Bureau 1 • Cleveland 11 Toledo • Welcome! 90 80 Youngstown We are pleased to welcome you to and Mahoning 75 Akron• Youngstown and Mahoning County! Located 76 County Canton • midway between Cleveland & Pittsburgh, and 71 New York & Chicago (near the intersection of 77 I-80 and I-76), our area offers a wide variety Columbus 70 of attractions, activities, arts and culture 70 • venues, and special events you and your • Dayton family will love. • Cincinnati Our visitors enjoy fantastic restaurants, unique shopping, outdoor recreational areas and plenty of challenging golf courses. After a busy day, rest easy in clean, comfortable, well-appointed rooms at any of our many lodging partners. Distances to Youngstown For a current calendar of events, please Akron. 50 miles visit our website, www.youngstownlive.com. Baltimore ......307 miles Please call the Mahoning County Convention Buffalo. .189 miles & Visitors Bureau at 800-447-8201 if we Canton ........64 miles can be of assistance as you explore our Charleston, WV . 253 miles hometown area. Chicago. 402 miles Cincinnati . 278 miles We hope you enjoy your visit! Come back and Cleveland . 76 miles Columbus. 175 miles see us again soon! Dayton ........242 miles Detroit ........230 miles Erie . .97 miles Indianapolis . ..348 miles Louisville ......378 miles Milwaukee .....492 miles New York ......396 miles Philadelphia ....367 miles Pittsburgh. 75 miles Richmond . 396 miles Toledo. .172 miles Toronto. 289 miles Washington DC. 307 miles Mahoning County Convention & Visitors Bureau For a complete guide, 800-447-8201 visit our website by scanning this code with www.youngstownlive.com your mobile device 2 Alfred Leslie’s painting “Americans, Youngstown Ohio”, on view at The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown. Contents Attractions . 4 Parks and Recreation . 8 Golf . 10 The Arts . 12 Family Fun / Sports . 13 Locator Maps . 14 Wineries . 18 Shopping . 19 Accommodations . 20 Dining . 22 Visitor Services / Resources . 27 Cover photo: Davis Visitors Center, Fellows Riverside Gardens, Mill Creek MetroParks Photo credits: Mill Creek MetroParks, Youngstown State University, Leslie Cusano Photography, Mahoning County CVB While every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this guide, the Mahoning County Convention & Visitors Bureau assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions. Hours of operation should be verified with individual locations and are subject to change. © Mahoning County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 2014 3 Unique attractions can be found throughout the Mahoning Valley. Attractions Wonderful museums, wineries, lush gardens and much more are just Fun for the whole family! waiting to be discovered. Enjoy! Butler Institute of American Art Butler Institute of Youngstown Historical OH WOW! Children’s American Art Center of Industry and Center for Science & 524 Wick Ave. Labor (Steel Museum) Technology Youngstown, OH 44502 151 W. Wood St. 11 W. Federal St. 330-743-1107 Youngstown, OH 44503 Youngstown, OH 44503 www.butlerart.com 330-941-1314 330-744-5914 www.ohiohistory.org/places www.ohwowkids.org Tue-Sat 11-4, Sun 12-4 Wed-Fri 10-4, Sat 12-4 Mon-Thur 10-6 (closed Mondays Known worldwide as ”America’s during summer) Museum”, the Butler is home to Known locally as The Steel Fri-Sat 10-4, Sun 12-4 over 20,000 works covering all Museum, the permanent exhibit “By media, created solely by American the Sweat of Their Brow: Forging A fantastic, fun facility where children artists. Gift shop, fine art gallery the Steel Valley” highlights the lives and adults can explore and play in an sales and café add to the and times of the men and women environment that fosters learning enjoyment of your visit. who labored in the steel and iron through HANDS-ON interactive industry in the Mahoning Valley. exhibits rooted in science, technology, Designed by Michael Graves, this is engineering and math (STEM). an interesting and unique museum. Butler Institute of American Art Steel Museum OH WOW! 4 Attractions Mill Creek MetroParks MetroParks Farm/ Noah’s Lost Ark Exotic www.millcreekmetroparks.org MetroParks Bikeway Animal Sanctuary 7574 Columbiana-Canfield Rd. Mill Creek MetroParks offers over 8424 Bedell Rd. Canfield, OH 44406 4,400 acres of diverse lands Berlin Center, OH 44401 330-533-7572 throughout Mahoning County, Ohio. 330-584-7835 Visit the MetroParks and find Farm: Apr-Oct: Mon-Fri 9-4, www.noahslostark.org endless ways to spend an Sat 10-1, Sun 1-4 mid-May - Aug 31: Tue thru Fri afternoon, a day, or a lifetime. Bikeway: dawn to dusk 10-5, Sat 10-6. Sun 10-5, This 402-acre working farm Sep & Oct: Sat-Sun 10-4 promotes agriculture through This unique facility is dedicated educational programming, tours, to providing a permanent, safe display areas, and a children’s environment for abused and playroom. unwanted exotic animals. See lions, The scenic Bikeway, open dawn to tigers, cougars, leopards and other dusk, is an 11-mile paved trail. animals at this licensed sanctuary. Open to hikers, skaters and bicyclists, it is part of the Great Ohio Lake to River Greenway. Mill Creek MetroParks Special MetroParks attractions include: Fellows Riverside Gardens 123 McKinley Ave. Youngstown, OH 44509 Noah’s Lost Ark 330-740-7116 Gardens open daily dawn to dusk National Shrine of Our Davis Visitors Center open Tue-Sun Lanterman’s Mill & Covered Lady of Lebanon 10-5 Bridge 2759 N. Lipkey Rd. Beautiful twelve-acre public display North Jackson, OH 44451 garden features roses of all classes, Arms Family Museum 330-538-3351 colorful plant displays, annuals, 648 Wick Ave. www.ourladyoflebanonshrine.com perennials, flowers, bulbs, trees, Youngstown, OH 44502 Mon thru Sat 9-5, Sun 11-5 evergreens and scenic vistas. The 330-743-2589 Davis Education & Visitors Center www.mahoninghistory.org A replica of the shrine in Harissa, includes a cafe, gift shop, art Lebanon, the grounds include a Tue-Sun 1-5 gallery, horticultural library and 55-ft. tower topped by a 16-ft. observation tower. Fellows Greystone, the magnificent 1905 statue of the Virgin Mary carved in rose granite. The Prince of Peace Riverside Gardens is one of Ohio’s Arts & Crafts-style residence of Olive Chapel, St. Joseph’s Garden, finest public gardens and attracts and Wilford Arms, is preserved a outdoor Stations and large religious over 400,000 visitors each year. century later as the Arms Family Museum of Local History. The first gift shop complete the complex. floor features original period rooms Lanterman’s Mill & that highlight the Arms’ love of Covered Bridge handicraft, medieval architecture and the natural environment. Other 980 Canfield Rd. levels feature exhibits that explore Youngstown, OH 44511 life in the Mahoning Valley. 330-740-7115 May-Oct: Tue thru Fri 10-5, Sat-Sun 12-6 Apr & Nov: Sat-Sun 12-4 One of Mahoning County’s most historic and most photographed landmarks. This 1846 gristmill operates today as it did in the past grinding corn and wheat. Enjoy the scenic overlook of Lanterman’s Falls, National Shrine of Our the Covered Bridge and hiking trails. Arms Family Museum Lady of Lebanon 5 Attractions McDonough Museum of Art COMING mid-2014 525 Wick Ave. YSU Campus Youngstown, OH 44555 330-941-1400 www.mcdonoughmuseum.org Tue-Sat 11-4 An all-new gaming facility, Call or check website for exhibit with 1,000 video-lottery information terminals (VLTs) - PLUS - a A center for contemporary art and TP Auto Collection one-mile thoroughbred horse ideas, located on the campus of racing track for live racing Youngstown State University, this action, as well as a simulcast museum hosts touring exhibits as TP Auto Collection parlor for wagering. well as student and faculty art. 7075 State Route 446 Canfield, OH 44406 330-533-3384 www.tpcarcollection.com Saturday 10-3 Open for groups by appointment Features a collection of beautifully restored antique vehicles. Highlight is a National Award-Winning 1939 Cadillac LaSalle. Stroll past these rare automobiles and check out the Representative images price of gasoline on the old-time pumps – 17 cents a gallon! McDonough Museum of Art 9/11 Memorial Park Youngstown State 1055 S. Raccoon Rd. University Ward Austintown, OH 44515 Beecher Planetarium 1 University Plaza Dedicated to the memory of Ward Beecher Hall those who lost their lives on Youngstown, OH 44555 September 11, 2001. The paths throughout the park lead visitors 330-941-1370 War Vet Museum www.wbplanetarium.org to remnants of the World Trade Center beams, building stones 23 E. Main St. See website for program schedule taken from the Pentagon, and an Canfield, OH 44406 330-533-6311 A variety of interesting astronomy urn containing dirt from the crash www.warvetmuseum.org programs are presented Jan-May site of Flight 93. Site also includes memorials to first- and Sep-Dec. Free and open to Sat 10-2 the public - children 1st Grade responders. and older. This museum houses over 36,000 artifacts from the Revolutionary War up through present day battles. Ward Beecher Planetarium 9/11 Memorial Park War Vet Museum 6 Points of Interest Stambaugh Auditorium Youngstown State St. James Meeting 1000 Fifth Ave. University House Youngstown, OH 44504 1 University Plaza 375 Boardman-Poland Rd. 330-259-0555 Youngstown, OH 44555 Boardman, OH 44512 www.stambaughauditorium.com 330-941-3000 (general info) 330-726-8107 www.ysu.edu www.boardmanpark.com Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this beautiful Youngstown State University, an Group Tours by appointment public auditorium opened in 1926. urban research university, Constructed in 1828 and listed in The magnificent concert hall seats emphasizes a creative, integrated the National Register of Historic 2,553 and is renowned for its approach to education, scholarship, Places, St.