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Readers of Travel + Leisure voted Cleveland the best city for an affordable getaway in its just-released annual favorite cities survey. Full story »

Travel in 3s looks for fall fun. Full story »

Still looking for ideas for summertime fun? Ohio's North Coast is packed with opportunities for warm-weather wanderings. Here are a couple of new (or newly reopened) attractions, plus a book to put you in a Lake Erie state of mind. 1. Safari Adventures is a new animal park on the grounds of Kalahari Resort, the mega-water-park complex in Sandusky.... Full story »

The beach beckons. A week into summer, it's time to hit the sand and surf. Pack up your pail and picnic basket and point your car north. Lake Erie's sandy strands await. True, Ohio's north shore cannot honestly compete with the best beaches on the nation's East and West coasts. Mentor Headlands is no match for Myrtle Beach; Maumee... Full story »

Travel in 3s highlights close-to-home-events, new attractions and special deals. To offer suggestions, please e-mail travel@plaind.com or call 216-999-4240. OHIO'S DIAMONDS It's Travel in 3s times two this week, as the Travel section honors the six Northeast Ohio lodging establishments that earned five- and four-diamond awards from AAA for 2009. The travel group evaluates restaurants and hotels nationwide, based... Full story »

Travel in 3s highlights close-to-home events, new attractions and special deals. To offer suggestions, please e-mail travel@plaind.com or call 216-999-4240. In the dumps about America's economic slump? Cheer yourself up by visiting one of the many places where manufacturing is still humming along in Ohio. From ice cream to whistles, RVs to kitchen mixers, companies in Ohio are still making... Full story »

Fashionistas are still twittering about Michelle Obama's inaugural gown, a creamy confection of ivory silk chiffon studded with silk flowers and crystals. What better time for an exhibit of "First-Ladies Style: White House Gowns"? That's the reasoning at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont, which is drawing crowds with dozens of gowns on display through Sunday, Aug.... Full story »

Travel in 3s is a new feature in the Travel section, highlighting close-to-home-events, new attractions and special deals. To offer suggestions, please e-mail travel@plaind.com or call 216-999-4240. PLACES TO WATCH BASEBALL Dig that mitt out of the basement. Baseball season is getting started so it's time to head for the ballpark, where you might catch a foul ball. 1. Huntington... Full story »

Dayton's SunWatch Indian Village/Archaeological Park once had a far less romantic name: Incinerator Site That was back in the 1960s when the area, just south of downtown along the Great Miami River, was empty land about half a mile from the old Dayton Incinerator. But it was also being explored by two amateur archaeologists who found some interesting American... Full story »

Desperate for a warm-weather escape earlier this month, I called a couple of nearby indoor water parks only to discover that both were booked solid for the Saturday night stay I sought. So much for the travel slump. With nearly 900 rooms, Kalahari Resort -- the African-themed water-park resort in Sandusky -- is the biggest hotel in Ohio. And... Full story »

ADAMSVILLE, Ohio — Five months later and my kids are still trying to wrangle a return trip to the hills of southeastern Ohio, where they lassoed their cowgirl dreams in a single weekend. True, KD Guest Ranch, spread across 50 acres in Muskingum County, is no farther west than Westlake. But try telling that to Dave and Kari Burkey,... Full story »

OAK HILL, W.Va. -- Two kinds of people clamber aboard a River Expeditions raft on the Upper Gauley River in late September/early October: Those who've been dumped overboard into the churning rapids and those who are going to be dumped overboard into the churning rapids. In the early-morning chill of a brisk fall Sunday last year, I was in... Full story »

LEWISBURG, W.Va. — On a cool, humid morning, Organ Cave exudes a breathy mist from its rocky mouth. About a hundred steps down its gullet and you're enveloped in eternal cave night. Switch on your headlamp and say goodbye to the translucent greens of summer, the scent of pine, the echo of a robin's song. Down here, where nothing... Full story »