45 minutes from Wilmington Young's Jersey Dairy is a working dairy farm that sells homemade ice cream and cheese. At the farm, you will find family dining, a gift shop, kiddie corral, petting zoo, mini-golf, driving range and batting cages.
45 minutes from Wilmington The Dayton Art Institute’s collection contains more than 27,000 objects, spanning 5,000 years of art history. At any given time, the Dayton Art Institute’s collection galleries display about 1,000 works from the collection.
1 hour from Wilmington It’s easy to spend a full day here: You can walk through the coral reef tunnel, marvel at the freshwater creatures that live in the Amazon Tunnel, and walk across Shark Bridge–a 75-foot suspended rope bridge that dangles just inches above a tank filled with sharks, rays, and fish.
1 hour and 15 minutes from Wilmington The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has connected people to amazing wildlife from around the world since its founding in 1927. The zoo is known for the celebrated birth of Colo the gorilla and the emergence of "Jungle" Jack Hanna on the national stage.
1 hour from Wilmington COSI, Columbus’ dynamic Center of Science and Industry, has combined science learning and fun since 1964 with 300-plus hands-on exhibits, Ohio’s largest Planetarium, Giant Screen Theater, live shows and a unique and unprecedented partnership with the renowned American Museum of Natural History.
1 hour from Wilmington Serpent Mound is an internationally known National Historic Landmark built by prehistoric Native Americans cultures in Ohio. It is an effigy mound (a mound in the shape of an animal) representing a snake with a curled tail. Nearby are three burial mounds—two created by the Adena culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100), and one by the Fort Ancient culture (A.D. 1000–1650).