Cities worth visiting for the weekend from Columbus...

[SteelCityRising]

For Pittsburgh you'd want to check out Downtown, the Strip District, Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, South Side, and the Mexican War Streets for sure. Other interesting neighborhoods include Bloomfield, Friendship, East Liberty, Polish Hill, and Allegheny West.

[WRnative]

Here is a downtown map from thisiscleveland.com (the convention & visitors bureau).

https://www.thisiscleveland.com/This...map-180424.pdf

The following interactive map shows what is in each building (scroll over a building and click; e.g., you can check out each building on East 4th St.).

https://www.thisiscleveland.com/plan...resources/maps

You can pull the map to the west to see Ohio City, to the southwest to see Tremont, to the east to see University Circle, Little Italy and Shaker Square, etc.

[TheProf]

Originally Posted by wy307

Cincinnati looks awesome, thanks for the info.

It's a very interesting city; considerably older than Ohio's other Big 3 (Cleveland and Columbus). Cincy looks like an East Coast city with tons of row houses and old flats in its core but, yet, has a quasi-Midwestern/Southern feel to it culturally. Of course it's directly across the river from Kentucky.

[Nomomo07]

Originally Posted by TheProf

It's a very interesting city; considerably older than Ohio's other Big 3 (Cleveland and Columbus). Cincy looks like an East Coast city with tons of row houses and old flats in its core but, yet, has a quasi-Midwestern/Southern feel to it culturally. Of course it's directly across the river from Kentucky.

Surprisingly enough, Cincinnati really is not that much older than the other two. Cincinnati was founded in 1788. Cleveland in 1796. Columbus in 1812.



I think Cincinnati has an older feel to it because we were a much larger city earlier on than the other two. We were the 6th largest city in the country from about 1840-1860 and were in the top ten for a few more decades after. This allowed the city to build an amazing amount of dense urban architecture in the mid-1800's that simply exists almost nowhere else in the Midwest.