Discover Richwood

Richwood offers several options for your stay: a park open daily, the Richwood Independent Fair, a historic building with several past uses, and a 41-mile tour along rural roads. These destinations offer different experiences. You can decide whether to focus your trip on a park visit, the fair, a glimpse of local history, or a drive through several counties.

Park Visit and Fair

Richwood Park is open daily from sunrise to sunset. This gives you a specific time frame for planning your day: you can schedule your park visit within these daily opening hours. This makes a visit different from the Rural Roads and Scioto River Tour, which covers a set total distance. If you would rather include one place in Richwood in your day than take a longer drive, these are two different types of outing.

The Richwood Independent Fair offers entertainment in the Grandstand area and also includes an area called the “Junior Fair.” If you include the fair in your travel plans, you can consider these two components as distinct points of interest: entertainment in the Grandstand area and the Junior Fair as a named area. For families traveling with children, the name Junior Fair can be a natural starting point for gauging their interest in the fair, without presuming specific activities.

A Building with a Changing History

Richwood Town Hall & Opera House is a historic brick building dating from 1890. Over the course of its history, it has been used as an opera house, town hall, movie theater, and fire station. These different uses give the building a local history that goes beyond any single function: the opera house and movie theater served cultural and entertainment purposes, while the town hall and fire station served other roles in community life. History enthusiasts will find a tangible point of interest here, with a focus different from a park visit or a drive through the surrounding area.

Recreation History and a Tour Through Three Counties

Richwood Lake Park is also part of the history of recreation in Richwood. For many years, it was used for picnicking, fishing, hiking, and camping. These activities cover different ways of spending time outdoors, from picnicking to fishing and hiking, as well as camping. This look back thus complements the history of Town Hall & Opera House with another perspective on the site's past uses.

The Rural Roads and Scioto River Tour is 41 miles long. It follows rural roads through the three counties of Union, Marion, and Delaware, stopping in the villages of Richwood, Prospect, and Magnetic Springs. Richwood is therefore one of the explicitly named stops on a tour that covers several counties. If you would like to experience Richwood as part of a drive through several counties, this tour offers a distinct focus alongside the individual destinations in town.

More places to explore: Plain City, Milford Center, Marysville.

For the broader travel overview: Union.