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Parks and the outdoors in Dayton

7 parks, gardens, beaches and walks in and around Dayton.

Ranked with the travel guide's picks and well-known places first.

Parks and the outdoors in Dayton

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    Carillon Park

    Carillon Park is an outside historical museum containing original historic homes that have been moved there. It is sort of like Greenfield Village in Michigan, but smaller. It contains artifacts from NCR, the Wright Brothers, and more.

    Mon-Sat 9:30AM-5PM, Sun noon-5PM, closed on 4th Thu of Nov, 24-25 Dec, 31 Dec-1 Jan$8, Children (3-17) $5, Seniors $7, Members and children (Under 3)free

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    Dayton Dragons

    The Minor League Baseball Dayton Dragons are a Cincinnati Reds farm team that plays in a beautiful stadium downtown and abuts the new Riverfront development. Catch the laser light show during the summer months. The team's home park is Day Air Ballpark in Dayton, formerly known as Fifth Third Field.

    Box office hour Mon-Fri 10AM-5PM (until 9PM on game days), Sat Sun noon-4PM (closed on non game days)

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    Huffman Prairie Flying Field & Interpretive Center

    Huffman Prairie is part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park which also includes the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, the Wright Cycle Company building, the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center, the Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial and Carillon Historical Park, which houses the original 1905 Wright Flyer III.

    Interpretive Center 8:30AM–5PM daily, Huffman Prairie Flying Field Sun-Tue Thu-Sat 8AM–6PM. Huffman Prairie is closed on Wednesdays. Huffman Prairie and the Interpretive Center are closed on major holidays. The museum is on an Air Force base and therefore may be subject to unannounced and immediate closures

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    Miami Valley Trails

    Bicycle and Shared Use Paths

    Ohio's Miami Valley area offers an outstanding system of trails and bikeways for residents and visitors. Over 300 mi of trails stretch across ten counties surrounding the Dayton and Springfield region. The Little Miami Scenic Trail is the most popular, but only the beginning of the fun.

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    South Park Tavern

    SPT

    A friendly neighborhood bar & pizza place (serving Pizza Factory pizzas & calzones). The staff of SPT have been expanding their service over the past year to include a large bar featuring 18 taps, many craft beers & micro-brews, a great outdoor patio space, and live music. A popular location for Historic South Park neighbors to gather on the weekends.

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    Wright Cycle Company Complex

    The Wright Cycle Company complex consists of two adjoining buildings: the Hoover Block, also known as the Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center and Aviation Trail Visitor Center and Museum, along with the Wright Cycle Company building. The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center is the main visitor center for the park, and occupies the restored Hoover Block building. In 1892, the Wrights opened a bicycle repair shop in addition to their printing business. From 1895 until 1897, both businesses were located at 22 S Williams St, “known as the Wright Cycle Company,” the fourth of five locations for their bicycle business.

    8:30AM–5PM, closed 4th Thu of Nov, 25 Dec, and 1 JanFree

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    SunWatch

    An interpretive Indian village and archeological park.

    Tue-Sat 9AM-5PM, Sun noon-5PM$5, children/seniors $3

Listings from the Wikivoyage guide to Dayton (CC BY-SA 4.0).