Spring Summer 2026 Activity Guide

CLEVELAND ARTS & AQUARIUM | 50+ YRS Recreation Staff The Cleveland Museum of Art is renowned for the quality and breadth of its collection, which includes more than 63,000 artworks and spans 6,000 years of achievement in the arts. Enjoy a docent-led tour that highlights the museum’s permanent collection. Eat lunch in Little Italy, then visit the Cleveland Aquarium for a self-guided tour. The aquarium, housed in a historic powerhouse that once generated electricity for streetcars, has seven galleries with 1,400+ animals and includes two touchpools and a shark seatube. Challenge Level 2. 552900 A 7:30 am-7:15 pm Tu 4/14 BCCC, Level 1, Cafe & Lobby $72 R-BCCC M | $87 NR NEWARK EARTHWORKS & DAWES ARBORETUM | 50+ YRS Recreation Staff Visit the Newark Earthworks Museum and take a guided tour of the Great Circle, part of the Newark Earthworks. The Great Circle site consists of a circular earthwork formed by a tall continuous earthen wall encompassing 30 acres of land. The wall is lined by a deep ditch on the inside of the earthwork. The museum is located at the top of a slight incline with a paved pathway leading to it. Please note, there is no paved pathway into the interior of the Great Circle. Eat lunch at a local restaurant, then take a guided tour at Dawes Arboretum on an open-air wagon to learn about their vast tree collections and natural habitats. Challenge Level 3. 552901 A 9:45 am-4:45 pm Th 5/14 BCCC, Level 1, Cafe & Lobby $67 R-BCCC M | $80 NR

CEDAR BOG & AULLWOOD AUDUBON | 50+ YRS Recreation Staff Take a guided tour of Cedar Bog in Urbana. Cedar Bog’s boardwalk takes you through habitats that include a rare sedge meadow, a thick cedar swamp and a hardwood swamp where towering tulip trees reach for the sky. When June arrives, nature lovers come from far and wide for the spectacle of tall magenta and white showy lady slippers blooming at the same time as the much shorter but equally vivid grass pink orchids. Eat lunch, then explore Aullwood Audubon in Dayton, consisting of a nature center, farm and eight miles of walking trails on a beautiful 200-acre nature sanctuary. View The Troll That Hatched an Egg exhibit, one of only a few Dambo-created exhibits in the United States and Puerto Rico. The giant trolls Bo, Bodil, and Bibbi are made from locally sourced recyclable materials and are a permanent exhibit created especially for Aullwood Audubon. Challenge Level 3. 552902 A 8:45 am-5:15 pm F 6/12 BCCC, Level 1, Cafe & Lobby $57 R-BCCC M | $69 NR SANDUSKY BAY MUSEUMS & MORE | 50+ YRS Recreation Staff Enjoy a fun and relaxed atmosphere while you tour the Merry Go-Round Museum in Sandusky and learn about the history and art of the carousel. Watch carvers restore carousel pieces back to their full beauty. Climb aboard the fully restored Allan Herschell Carousel and take a ride while the band organ plays! Eat lunch at a local restaurant, then head to Marblehead Lighthouse State Park. Visit the Keeper’s House, the U.S. Lifesaving Station Museum, and climb the stairs of the Marblehead Lighthouse tower. Afterwards, grab a sweet treat at a local ice cream shop before heading home. Challenge level 4. 552905 A 7:30 am-7:30 pm Tu 6/30 BCCC, Level 1, Cafe & Lobby $60 R-BCCC M | $72 NR SPRINGFIELD GEMS | 50+ YRS Recreation Staff Spend the day in Springfield discovering some of their hidden gems! Take a guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Westcott House, designed in 1906 and built in 1908. Due to drastic alterations in the 1940s, the Westcott House remained an undiscovered relic for many years – a lost Wright artifact. Thanks to cooperative efforts, the Westcott House is now a revitalized example of Wright’s legacy. Eat lunch at a local restaurant, then take a guided tour of the Snyder Park Gardens & Arboretum, a community collaboration involving National Trail Parks and Recreation District, Clark County Ohio State University Extension and Master Gardeners of Clark County. Gardens include Early Ohio Settler’s Garden, Field Trials, Garden of Eatin’, Perennial Garden, Turf Research Plots, Victory Garden and Springfield Foundation Feature Garden. Challenge Level 3. 552903 A 9:30 am-5 pm Tu 7/21 BCCC, Level 1, Cafe & Lobby $61 R-BCCC M | $73 NR

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