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| *Travel Tips>>>Cleveland Travel Tips |
I have two months to spend in Cleveland.? |
Travel Info What麓s there to see, visit, explore????? (Besides Rock n麓Roll Museum) Travel Tips There really is a lot to see and explore. The metro area is just big enough to offer a lot of great things to see and do. Theater, museums, sports, parks, concerts, nightlife, dining. Cleveland isn't lacking any of these things. Cleveland is a very nice typical "American" city. New York, LA, Miami, Las Vegas aren't really very good examples of American cities. Cleveland on the other hand is a real city that is not touristy. Things to see and do are much cheaper, and there isn't very much traffic. You might want to start out by taking a tour of the city on Lolly the Trolley. It is a little touristy of course, but they do a really good job orienting people with the city. Downtown and University Circle are the two main hubs of activity in the city. Outside of these two hubs there are number of attractive little neighborhood districts with a lot of character like Ohio City, Tremont, Little Italy, Shaker Square, Coventry Village, Cedar Fairmount, and Cedar Lee. There are also multiple rings of suburbs. Some like Shaker Heights, Bratenahl, Lakewood, Rocky River, and Cleveland Heights have beautiful stately old homes and are really fun to drive through. The core metropolitan area of Cleveland is surrounded by a fantastic ring of parks known as the Emerald Necklace. The newer suburbs have the best shopping. Crocker Park in Westlake, Beachwood Place and Legacy Village in Beachwood are the three best shopping centers. Day trips outside of the city and suburbs to places like the small towns of Chagrin Falls, Peninsula and Hudson draw people from all over. Cedar Point is a fantastic amusement park with a ton of roll coasters on a nice peninsula jutting out over Lake Erie. The Lake Erie Islands are a lot of fun; think of a northern version of the Floridia Keys. Downtown on W.6th, St. Clair, and W.9th in the Warehouse District is a really nice and kind of trendy place to go to dinner and drinks. E.4th Street has the House of Blues, Pickwick and Frolic comedy club and restaurant, and Lola's- Cleveland's most famous and acclaimed restaurant by celebrity chef Michael Symon. Playhouse Square is the second largest theater district in the country and they offer many different types of performing arts events in beautiful theaters. The Cavs, Indians, and Browns stadiums are all located right downtown too. University Circle is where all the museums and cultural institutions are located. It is a very pretty area too with a pristine lagoon and parks. Don't miss the Cleveland Museum of Art - its free and really good. Severance Hall where the Cleveland Orchestra plays is probably the most beautiful building I have ever seen, and the Cleveland Orchestra is regarded as the country's top 5. The Peter B. Lewis building is really cool and it was designed by Frank Gehry. Arabica Coffee House is really cool and located in a beautiful old house/mansion. The Cinematheque at the Institute of Art plays specialty and foreign films. Next to University Circle is Little Italy on Murray Hill and Mayfield roads; great restaurants and art galleries there. Ohio City is one of my favorite neighborhoods. Really cool and uniquely Cleveland. It is just west of downtown on W.25th Street. The West Side Market is an old-world style market hall built in 1912. Cool place to people watch and pick up some really fresh foods. Get a falafel or a cup of coffee and sit up on the balcony or go to the cafe for lunch. At the market and in the neighborhood there are all different kinds of languages spoken and it is a very worldly place. The Great Lakes Brewing company is another fantastic place. Its Clevelands famous and award-winning microbrew. Great food, great beer, and great atmosphere. There are also other neat little bars, cafes and restaurants in the neighborhood too. I really like Lelolai on W.25th, a hispanic bakery and cafe where I can get some authentic food and practice my Spanish. Tremont is a really up and coming neighborhood just south of Ohio City. Throughout the neighborhood there are some very cutting-edge restaurants and art galleries.They have a popular Artwalk there every month where you can browse the galleries and have some free food and drinks. Coventry VIllage kind of serves the city's college students and resident hippies. It is like a small version of New York's Greenwich Village. Tommy's in Coventry is a great place to eat, and extremely popular. The Grog Shop is a great indie-rock venue and bar. Shaker Square is an awesome place for dinner and movie. The Rapid train runs right through the center of a 1929 Georgian style square and gives it a lot of character. Great Hungarian, pizza, sushi, Brazilian, Mexican and American can all be savored on the square. The cinema there has been both fully restored to its orignal art decco splendor and refitted with modern seating, sound, and comforts. I could go on some more, but there are too many to list. I have lived here my whole life and am still discovering everything. Others mcdonalds Unfortunately Cleveland is prety boring ,,,not much to see..its all in the downtown area...The waterfront clubs are cool on the strip...also the Indians stadium and there is the Hard Rock Cafe too but other than that your not gonna see much else...you could also visit a Browns game if you love football and if its the time do the halloween jumping to haunted houses etc... I went to Cleveland last year, after you check out all the big city stuff. Go to the small towns like East lake and Willoughby. Drive through Amish country, they have a cheese factory about 45 min from east lake, ( i forgot the name of the town) .Little Italy is fun too! Ask the locals, they can tell you some places to go thats not so touristy. And hey if you notice a street named Patt Court in Willoughby, thats named after my family. ( Just thought I would throw that out there) ...lol. Have fun! Also check out Squire's Castle, its located in the Metroparks. Take I-90 to Route 91 (Willoughby Exit) to Chardon Road (Route 6) to Chagrin River Road. The castle is on the right-hand side. Its pretty cool! Nice scenery, I went about this time last year and it was beautiful! The science center is very nice, go to a browns game, a concert, the history museum, Dave and Busters, Tower City shopping. Go to west 6th or the flats and get blitzed. You have to eat at New York Spaghetti House on E.9--get the fettuccine...yummy! For some good store bought unique foods go to the westside market. Visit the website below. There are many things to do. There are also some great parks in Lake county. Oh, and amish people and yummy cheese is in Middlefield. http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-27... www.cleveland.com Gives you tons of nightlife and site seeing ideas! |
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