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Drive 70
Scenic Southeastern Ohio
Ohio's southland offers a full slate of pleasing sights—streams and rivers, tidy
apple orchards, sprawling forests, and modest pioneer towns. But the area's past
goes deeper still, back to a time when long-vanished Native American civiliza-
tions were a flourishing presence in these rugged hills.
Length:
About 170 miles
When to go:
Pleasant year-round
Special Lodging:
Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls, Logan; Burr Oak Lodge and Conference
Center, Glouster; Historic Lafayette Hotel, Marietta
Not to be missed:
Hocking Hills Canopy Tours, a zipline adventure through the trees
and on suspended bridges above the forest floor, Rockbridge
Nearby attractions:
Serpent Mound State Memorial, 50 miles southwest of Chilli-
cothe; the Wilds, a 9,100-acre conservation center, about 20 miles north of McConnels-
ville on Rte. 284
Further information:
Ohio Tourism Division
1.
Chillicothe
Named with a Shawnee tribal word that means ''town,'' Chillicothe first became the capital
of the Northwest Territory, then the state of Ohio in 1803. It has since grown into a manu-
facturingcenter,withmanyremindersofitspaststillstanding,includinganumberofstately
19th-century Greek Revival mansions. You'll also find the home of Thomas Worthington,
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