Buckeye Lake Bikeway - Playground of Ohio Smart-Guided Cycle Tour

Smart-guided Cycle Tour ~ Buckeye Lake, Ohio

- The Playground of Ohio

The Playground of Ohio - Buckeye Lake! This unique fun historical bikeway tour ties in the lake's past and present amusement adventures.

Get your tour ticket to this historical fun-in-the-sun bikeway adventure at Buckeye Lake! Explore the sights and museum of what made this manmade lake crucial in the early growth of the United States of America and then later, the 'Playground of Ohio' with its amusement park, dance hall, hotels, and lake attractions.

"The Buckeye Lake Amusement Park opened in 1901 and was referred to as “The Playground of Ohio.” In its heyday, crowds as large as 50,000 would come to visit the attractions, which included rides, a skating rink, boating excursions, swimming, and dining. The park also had two large ballrooms, The Crystal Ball Room and Lake Breeze Pier Dance Hall, which often hosted popular big bands including Louis Armstrong and Tommy Dorsey. Radio broadcasts that could be heard across the country were also recorded in the Pier Ballroom." source: Licking County Library - Buckeye Lake Amusement Park

You have plenty of options on this adventure - pick from a 10, 14, 18, or 21-mile route. Make it a short fun bikeway adventure along the lake... or make a day of it - go swimming at the beach, enjoy lakeside dining with live music, visit the Buckeye Lake Historical Society Museum (Admission: $4 donation for adults; $2 donation for seniors; $1 donation for children), taste old fashioned ice cream in a vintage ice cream factory, ponder canal side at the historical Deep Cut marker (The Deep Cut is considered by some historians as one of the greatest engineering feats in Ohio's first half-century), take in the natural beauty of Ohio's oldest State Park - Buckeye Lake State Park, find the trailside Buckeye Lake historical marker, see (or even tour) the environmental quirk of the floating Cranberry Bog State Nature Preserve, check out the numerous shops, breweries, and local attractions, and maybe even take a boat tour on Buckeye Lake.

This bikeway tour route is loaded with options. All include 8 miles on the Buckeye Lake Bikeway, which is lakeside level. The balance of the routes are roadway and follow the lay of the land, in some areas over rolling hills where your cycle's gear shifter will see some use. Nevertheless, the tour comes with the usual CycleNuts 50% downhill guarantee.

Points of interest (listed for the longest route - the shorter routes have fewer): Buckeye Lake, Buckeye Lake Bikeway, The Deep Cut, Buckeye Lake State Park, Ohio and Erie Canal, Buckeye Lake Historical Society Museum, Crystal Beach at Crane Lake, Cranberry Bog State Nature Preserve, and two optional tasty CycleNuts tested and approved turnaround spots - Papa Boos, and Welden's Ice Cream Factory.

WHY CHOOSE a Smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tour?

You get all the benefits of a guided tour without the drawbacks of a tour guide, other tourists, time restrictions, and a rigid tour agenda. With this smart-guided tour, you can go when you want, at your speed, and hang out at a spot as long as you wish. You can even wander off the planned route and the smart guide will get you back on track when you are ready.

HERE'S THE PLAN: You bring a bike and a smartphone. CycleNuts provides the smart-tour guide links! You will receive an expertly designed tour route via email. Click the emailed link and follow the Selfie Tour route using your smartphone as your smart-tour guide for the Voice and Map guided turn-by-turn instructions.

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS: From your location, using your cell phone click on the starting spot link and follow the Google Maps directions. When you arrive, click the emailed tour navigation links to begin the tour. The navigation links will be either Google Maps, Ride With GPS (RWGPS), or both. For more complex tours, there may be several links to click with additional instructions. With Google Maps, the navigator will prompt you at each checkpoint to continue navigation.

ARE YOU READY TO ROLL? GREAT... LET'S HIT THE TRAILS!

GET YOUR TICKET TODAY! - the tour starting and ending times on the ticket are only a general guideline to give you an idea of how much time the tour may take at the minimum. Your time in the saddle, on the trail, and starting times are your call - it's your tour. One ticket equals fun for all! Bring as many people as you wish on your tour. Ticket purchase is for the CycleNuts Selfie Smart-guided route links only. Attractions, lodgings, food, bike rental, etc. are not included in the ticket purchase.

CycleNuts Selfie Cycle Tours

CycleNuts Selfie Tours tie together fun, interesting, scenic, historic, tasty, and refreshing points of interest along a bikeway-focused tour route where you ride at your pace and pleasure. You are the tour boss. You choose the date and time - the ticket is good for any day or time. The dates listed are only a ticket-processing necessity - the tours are good for any date. The times listed are only a guideline to give you an idea of how long the tour normally takes.

With these Smart-guided Selfie Cycle Tours, you bring the bike and smartphone - CycleNuts provides the Smart-guide links. The Smart-guide gives voice and visual turn-by-turn instructions along an expertly designed tour route.

Do the tour solo or bring along your crew. 1 ticket = fun for all! Easily stop anywhere along the way to visit attractions or refreshments and the Smart-guide will continue the route from wherever you are when you are ready to roll.

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