Is there still that old miniature golf course there.  It was really old but fun (as a kid) with a windmill and things like that.  In fact this was supposedly the first miniature golf course anywhere.  There was also a regular, boring "putt puttt just down the road from there, as well as go carts.

 

Come to think of it I think one time I was back through there a long while ago, that miniature golf course was abandoned and full of weeds.

 

*"it's the oldest miniature golf course in the U.S"

http://www.midwestliving.com/travel/interest/lakes-rivers/six-great-midwest-lake-towns/?page=4 

 

 

I'll be up there for camping, greasy food and biker babes next weekend. Plus bike riding to the wineries...

 

That sounds like a good time to me!

 

Hanging out in that atmosphere for me is a welcome change of pace from my current residence in Chicago's Gold Coast (yuppie central), so I enjoy a trip to Geneva-on-the-Lake from time-to-time when I'm back in Ohio visiting family and friends. I guess it makes me "white trash" to say that? LOL

 

 

I was joking about the biker babes BTW, however we are going with my wife's roller derby friends so it's close.

 

Thanks Rustbelter, I understand the "yuck" reaction that some people have for the strip, but it is what it is and it definitely has it's place. The strip is basically an unorganized amusement park midway with cottages intermixed. I actually haven't been to the strip in probably 6 or 7 years, when my best friend's family took a nostalgia vacation and rented a cottage like they did when he was a kid. Vacation weeks at Geneva-on-the-Lake were very popular with Youngstown area people. However that seemed to have died off with my grandparents generation.

 

I had family friends that lived on 534 between the town of Geneva and GOTL, so I spent a lot of time up there as a teenager, especially when my friend was dating the younger sister for a summer. Lots of time in the pool halls and arcades.

 

If "the strip" isn't scenic enough, drive 5 miles south to South River vineyards. It's pretty awesome scenery especially on your bike. Wines are decent to good too.

 

http://www.southrivervineyard.com/Home.php

yes when the other amusements were going it was much more mixed than it apparantly is now. not surprising after that kind of family oriented lure fell off.

If "the strip" isn't scenic enough, drive 5 miles south to South River vineyards. It's pretty awesome scenery especially on your bike. Wines are decent to good too.

 

The countryside around there is amazing. Very uncluttered, clean and scenic, especially considering how close it is to Cleveland.