My family will be vacationing in Columbus next week for the Crew vs. Metrostars game. Does anybody have any suggestions for things to do in and around Columbus. Will the Crew be scrimaging in local teams during the week ?
Practices are generally open to the public. Call the offices at 614-447-2739 before heading down to Obetz to make sure. Also, at 7 PM on April 22nd, at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, the Crew scrimmages Ohio State. Tickets for the event are $5 for adults and $3 for children. Children 3 and under are free. Plenty of free parking available at both sites.
No, Ohio University is in Athens, about 80 miles. Jesse Owens Stadium is on the campus of Ohio State University.
yep, just north of the baseball stadium and basketball arena, right off of 315. the game is a memorial for conner senn, an ohio state soccer player who tragically died of a heart problem during a game last year.
thecrew.com usually has their weekly schedule posted. They usually practice out there in the mornings and practices are open to the public.
Interesting side things to do while you and your family are in Columbus. (1)German Village (south of downtown). Very scenic, please make sure you visit "The Book Loft" on 3rd Street (a house that has over 26 rooms of books) and have dinner at Schmidt's (great German food and polka entertainment on the weekends) (2) Easton Towne Center (Morse Rd and I-270, NE Side) Les Wexner's mall project. Good shopping experience. If you want more than that, PM me or let me know here.
If you have kids take them to COSI. http://www.cosi.org/index.asp There are some great restaurants around town. These are the places we like to go for birthdays / good report cards: Cameron Mitchell restaurants (Cameron's, Mitchell's steak house, Ocean club, fish market, cap city diner, etc.): http://www.cameronmitchell.com Handke's http://www.chefhandke.com The Refectory http://www.therefectoryrestaurant.com/ These are the best places to go for a good cheap meal: Aladdin's http://www.aladdins.com Katzinger's http://www.katzingers.com/ Anatolia Cafe http://www.anatoliacafe.net/
i second this...certainly a place you have to go if you have kids. when are they gonna change the basketball playing rats to soccer playing rats?
Uh, guys - he's from Tampa. Like most big cities, they must have an "interactive science" place of their own. Nothing particularly unique about COSI. I'd recommend The Park of Roses if they were in bloom, and if they cleared out the queens, but it's April so forget it. Budweiser brewery tour is cool. Eat someplace in German Village just to say you did. Hosters is nice. While you're down there, notice that the streets are cobblestone. Then get the hell out. Wexner Center is a really world-class exhibition of post-modern art, if you're into that sort of thing. I'm not, so don't feel bad. Good zoo. Excellent golf. Drive slowly past the Santa Maria recreation, but don't bother with the tour. Ditto the Statehouse - interesting example of something or other, but just drive around the block. Enjoy; it's not Vienna, but you can find enough to keep awake for a week or so, particularly with the Crew in town.
bill...umm, the basketball playing rats! geeze. seriously though, you may wanna go out and check out easton for an afternoon. it is a very nice outdoor mall that most who visit columbus enjoy. nothing spectacular but on a nice sunny day, a perfect place to walk around.
I don't think they have a Chipotle in Tampa....eat there if you like burritos....Incredible burritos. I've seen a few players at the easton chipotle a couple times. Definately check out Easton...
We forgot to mention the Columbus Zoo... It's one of the 4 or 5 best zoos in the country, with Jack Hanna as its famous director emeritus. He's the Zoo's equivalent of Stern John; he was too good for us to keep him. No worries, the animals are still there. I wouldn't necessarily rule out COSI... If the kids are elementary age or younger, they're sure to get a kick out of it. They moved to the current building back in 1999 so some of its bells & whistles might supercede your local science museum. Some other things we forgot to mention. Side-trips: US Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton; The Wilds, Zanesville; Longaberger Basket factory & Chadwick Arboretum, Newark; Hocking Hills State Park.
Yes go to Scenic Zanesville. Ya got the Y bridge... buildings that have been abondoned since 1973, luvly factories, and some of the world's most famous homeless people.
At this point I'll bet you've gotten the message - that there isn't one other city of the same size in the entire Western world with as little of interest for a visiting traveller to do. In both good and bad ways, Columbus has worked very hard to earn it's reputation as Cowtown, USA.
This was the nicest thread I have ever read on big soccer. See, we can all get along. (I think it helps that the Crew is doing well.) I wish I could chime in but I haven't lived in Ohio for 4 years. If any of you ever come to Brooklyn, I'll help you find fun things to do.
An absolute must is a drive out on Rt. 16 just east of Newark. This is home the corporate office of Longaberger that is in the shape of a giant picnic basket. The picture above cannot describe it. You must see if for yourself.
Yes, another must see. If you are driving from out east and coming in on I-70, drive across thing bridge on the way to Columbus.
For a real change of scenery from Tampa, Try a hike in the Hocking Hills. Old Man's Cave and that area is really pretty this time of year and the Flora and Fauna will be decidedly un Florida. Lots of Redbuds and Dogwoods and trees just leafing out. A beautiful Spring walk for adults or kids. You can do that closer, on a much smaller scale, just North of C-bus in Highbanks Park.
I just love driving by Brockway glass A great time to be had for sure. We love the place and wish we still lived there. Cleveland has a lot more stuff, and we hate it. I used to visit my great-aunt on East 33rd Street. She bought a row house in 1930 or thereabouts when it was a fashionable neighborhood. It had since deteriorated into a pretty nasty place but she hadn't noticed (she was very old). It was where I learned from my father about keeping the inside of the car very clean and picked up, and leaving it unlocked.