The Seasons Edition
It would be easy to tell you to pick a season to visit, but that wouldn’t be fair to the other three, because they all hold an appeal that is best experienced by being here when it’s happening. Like all good things, each season ends, leaving us to wonder if we’ve made the most of it. Don’t leave it to chance or regret. Lace-up the boots or tennis shoes and pick a month. All twelve of them are spectacular in Licking County.
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— Dan Moder, Executive Director
Featured Guides
Spring
Spring has a reputation for being unpredictable and dreary in the Buckeye State. While we slowly emerge from our winter cocoons (read: sherpa throws, comfort food and Netflix marathons) with an insatiable desire to bask in the barely-existent warmth of the sun’s rays, the chill of winter lingers in our bones and we find ourselves looking for a way to shake it.
Summer
Picture this: It’s a sweltering summer day and the central Ohio sun is high in the sky. You’ve diligently completed your chores and the day stretches before you; the kids are already complaining of boredom, and you’re struggling to come up with a solution that will make everyone happy. The answer, clearly, is ice cream — just ask Luconda Dager, the fourth generation of the family behind Velvet Ice Cream who now serves as the company president.
Autumn
All they did that first year was plant a bunch of pumpkins. “A couple” acres, Mark Van Buren will say. (“It seemed like ten,” his wife, Catherine Baird, will add.) They did it just for fun, to see what would happen — maybe they’d share with neighbors or invite some kids over to pick them. After all, can one really go wrong with planting pumpkins?
Winter
The date for the inaugural Winterfest is set for the last Saturday in January (a tradition that continues to this day), and the rest took care of itself….