With hundreds of attractions spread throughout the region, you'll be sure to find many treasures for you and your family to enjoy. Just click on the links below for a taste of the wonderful attractions for you to visit.

Are you looking for a “down on the farm” experience?? Marmon Valley Farm, nestled amidst a rolling landscape full of glorious colors each season, will meet your country vacation needs.  Featuring over 450 acres, this family run retreat center includes trails and fields for hiking, walking or horseback riding, a lake, swimming, fishing, shopping, picnic grounds, streams and an animal farm park.  In operation for over 44 years, the center sits on land once familiar to Wyandot and Shawnee   Indians, as well as home to frontiersman, Simon Kenton.  Settled by the Marmon family in the early 1800s, the historic Marmon home still stands, where they opened their home to guests, thus beginning the retreat facility. By reservation only, group activities can include a wide variety of experiences such as chuck wagon farm cooked meals and barn dances!  Wake up to the crow of the rooster, pick fresh vegetables from the garden, feed the animals, or just kick back and relax!!  Special packaged weekend retreats are available.  There’s plenty to do down on the farm! Open year round.  Zanesfield, Ohio, www.marmonvalley.com. Contact: Logan County Visitors Bureau at  888-564-2626.

In late spring the vast fields of Fulton Farms gleam red with the season’s first strawberries, and in the fall, an endless landscape of orange pumpkins await carving and baking. Owned by the Fulton family since the early 1950s, it is the largest contiguous produce farm east of the Mississippi, specializing in a wide variety of produce, including organics, it is best known for its extraordinary sweet corn and delicious strawberries.  The easily accessible farm market has fresh fruits & vegetables, gourmet foods, Ohio-made products and other unique gift items in the gift shop.  The Market Café offers Boston Stoker coffees, espresso, soups, desserts, ice cream, yogurt and homemade bread.  2393 State Route 202, Troy. Fees apply according to activities.   Arrangements for groups are required and should be made in advance for special luncheons, gifts items and tours.  (No fees to just browse and shop.)  Contact:  Miami County VCB at 800-348-8993. 

The aquaculture industry is one of the fastest growing segments of the agriculture economy.  At Freshwater Farms of Ohio, Dr. Dave Smith, one of the innovative pioneers in this industry, and his family have created the largest indoor fish farm in Ohio, raising Rainbow Trout, perch and many other fish from eggs in a solar heated hatchery! Visit the all weather outdoor tanks, feed the fish and pet the friendly sturgeon!  Freshwater Farms sells their fish wholesale to restaurants, fine markets and directly to customers in their own market.  Their retail market is stocked with gourmet fresh and smoked trout, delicious smoked trout/cheese dips, frozen trout patties flavored with sun-dried tomatoes or Cajun spices, and Ohio-made products such as cheese, honey, maple syrup, pottery, hand blown glass items and soaps.  Faye loves to give samples of the smoked trout and cheese dips.  Tour the tanks and learn how these fish are raised.  Don’t forget to pet the friendly sturgeon!  Freshwater Farms also raises shrimp and they have an annual Shrimp Festival !!  Reservations required.  Tour includes samples (fees apply).   www.freshwaterfarms.com  Contact: Champaign County Visitors Bureau, 877-873-5764.

Robert Rothschild’s Raspberry Honey Mustard has repeatedly been voted as the best mustard in the world by industry specialists!  At Robert Rothschild Farm, beautiful farmland, formal gardens, and a modern productions facility await groups in the rolling hills just outside of Urbana.  Enjoy a wonderful lunch in the 5100 square foot Market Café, then tour the modern facility which produces some of the world’s most famous gourmet foods.  Lounge in the three acres of formal English herb gardens—take in the beauty while snipping a few of the 100 different varieties of herbs!  Don’t miss the  fantastic shopping and treats at the market café.  Average length of stay: 45   minutes for tour, 2 hours for tour and lunch. Restrooms available, wheelchair accessible & motorcoach parking is plentiful.  Group size: maximum of 65 people for lunch.  Tours Mon - Fri only.  Advance reservations required. Fees vary with choice of tour.    Located east of Urbana.  www.robertrothschild.com; Champaign Co. Visitors Bureau, 877-873-5764.

Entertainment for all ages can be found at “Darke County's Agricultural Playground”, Brumbaugh Fruit Farm located just outside the warm, inviting town of    Arcanum. This family-owned farm offers acres of fruit and peach trees, pumpkin patches, corn fields with a five-acre maze, pond with campfire sites, kiddie playland, animal petting area, hayrides, bakery and a quaint shop filled with specialty crafts, jams, jellies and some of the best caramel apples in Ohio!  Enjoy the day walking through the orchards, then relax with a cup of warm apple cider and a delicious apple fritter!  Special events are planned each weekend during their annual fall festival in September and  October.  For more information, contact: Darke County Visitors Bureau at 800-504-2995 or visit www.discoverourlegends.com .

Quilts on barns?What an unusual idea!  Relax, unwind, andexperience yesteryear as you travel thebeautiful countryside in this unique driving tour of Champaign and Miami Counties.Both counties currently have 17 Barn Quilts on their tours, with many more in the making.  The Barn Quilt concept was started as a way to bring visitors to experience all that each community has to offer. to highlight the agricultural heritage as well as the important folk art of quilting, the Barn Quilt Tour features large, painted  renditions of traditional patchwork quilt blocks hung or painted on the sides of barns,a growing trend that has captured the spirit of heritage tourism.  While connecting the rural countryside and our lovely historic downtown communities with a colorful array of painted Barn Quilts, the tour provides a new exciting way for visitors to enjoy the beauty and simple elegance of our  countryside as they make their way from town to town.  Map brochures will be available for those interested in taking the tours.

For more information, contact Miami County Visitors and Convention Bureau at 800-348-8993, or Champaign County Visitors Bureau at  877-873-5764.

Ohio’s Historic West is a not for profit organization comprised of 8 counties in west central Ohio, including; Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Miami and Shelby counties. Ohio’s Historic West is the story of our American Experience as illustrated by our cultural and ethnic diversity, family farms, historic freedoms and liberties, rural lifestyle, scenic beauty, ingenious industrial innovations, hometown heroes, patterns of development and settlement, small town charms, and spirit of community. Take the journey!

Ohio's Historic West
Consisting of Auglaize, Champaign, Darke, Logan, Mercer, Miami, Van Wert and Shelby counties.