Summer Trip: The Ancient Ohio Trail Route | Granville, Columbus & The Newark Earthworks

These itineraries suggest many opportunities to extend, deepen, and customize your travel throughout Ohio. Enjoy "early Ohio" sites like historic inns, ancient roads tracing American Indian and settlers pathways, plus canals, historic sites and early industries.

This route consists of seven optional sites:

1. Granville
2. "Alligator Effigy"
3. Ohio History Center
4. Ohio State Capital
5. Ohio State University
6. Shrum Mound
7. High Banks Metro Park

For more information, visit: The Ancient Ohio Trail.

The Newark Earthworks.
Image Courtesy of the Ancient Ohio Trail.

The Newark Earthworks, "The Largest Geometric Earthwork Complex in the World",

a key site within the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks UNESCO World Heritage Tentative Nomination, 

is close by if you want to add it to your trip!

For more information about UNESCO World Heritage, 

visit World Heritage Ohio, here.