Lived the street fair! So many crafts and food check it out next year. It takes maybe 60-90 minutes…read moreor more if you stop to eat lol

Love this street fair. But go early if you want to park in town. If not head toward youngs dairy…read more... across the street from it there is free parking in a field and buses going back and forth .. all free. The street fair has lots of venders and interesting things... crafts, hand made things, art, if you want cool hippie shirt, belly dancing, food trucks. Sometimes field of sunflowers outside of town.

Happens every year. Lots of fun. Miles of booths and activities. A big deal for Troy. Gotta love…read moreit. It's been open since 6 PM today. It's going on all day tomorrow too. They've got a live band playing downtown. It's nice and cool outside. It's like 8:30 PM so the sun is almost setting. Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.

As festivals go, this is one of the better that I've been to. Tons of various food choices, scarfs,…read morecorn hole boards, signs, jewelry, leather goods, flags, lots of strawberry items, etc. I even had a nice talk with a Ranger from the Miami Valley Park system. It's a great way to spend a Saturday!

Excellent small "Appalachian" Festival in Enon Ohio…read more Competes with many other Ohio festival - draws a nice crowd with plenty of free parking. My wife delights in talking with the vendors and visiting every single booth. Greenon HS band leads the way. Lots of excellent food boths, both professional and mom and pop. We favor chicken and noodles, beans and corn bread, and porkchops. The nearby Sauerkraut festival is too much for us.

I think the idea of this place is cool, but it really needs some money put into it. I'm glad we…read morewent on a Free day because I would have been upset to pay an entrance fee for what is there. There is a super small inside gallery area. A bunch of exhibits were covered so you couldn't see them. The outside is a small village with two structures. It was cool to go in and see you those looked like. There are plaques with what is around the circle area and you can either scan the QR code to get that information or borrow one of their books to learn about it. I think that's pretty cool. I think there is massive room for improvement and making things just look nicer. I think those in charge could learn a lot from how the Great Council State Park was done. Lots of room for more hands and interactive things to keep the kids interesting in learning about our past. This could also spell more revenue from schools for Field Trips.

This place is so cool. I went here today. It was a beautiful day to walk outside and see…read moreeverything! The staff was nice and there was so much to learn. You can learn a lot inside the main building or go outside as well!

This is a fun museum! It's a nice compact building with two floors that cover a variety of topics…read moreto explore and plenty of hands-on activities. I definitely recommend taking note of the program schedule on their social media or when you first arrive, because the programs add a lot of fun to the day, particularly for older elementary kids. Even better, all of these are included in your entrance fee, no nickeling and diming here! We attended a planetarium show with an astronomer who narrated a trip around the universe's moons, hands-on experiments for ages 5+ in the Do Lab on exothermic and endothermic reactions, a science theater show on the fire triangle, and an animal encounter with an opossum on the Discovery Zoo Vet Stage. All of these were really excellent and amongst our favorite parts of the visit. In between shows, we explored the many galleries and spaces available. There are some really nice little kid spaces where they can get hands on and do pretend play, like a play pizza kitchen, working with animals like a vet, and the solid waste exhibit (recycling truck). There's a toy brick area with neat Lego displays and hands-on Duplo building. For the dino fans, there's a paleo lab with fossils on display and paleontologists working in a lab with windows where you can observe what they do. (Note - this was trickier to find - the door is off of the museum restaurant, the Eco Eatery). The Treehouse is a really nice and quieter space, as it encourages birdwatching with binoculars and bird feeders. The water play area was a hit although it was missing a couple of pieces for some of the hands-on activities. For the older kids there are some more reading-heavy informational panels in exhibits on topics like Ancient Egypt (they have a mummy on display), the Sonoran Desert, or the multi-space space rooms around the planetarium on the sun, the universe, and the exoplanets. There's a mini zoo on the second floor, with a lot of neat animals to see. We must have been there at the right time, because a lot of them were very active, such as the river otters, the naked mole rats, and the new toucan. The two story climbing tower immediately catches eyes and offers a fun way to access the different levels. It even has a section that goes up higher than the second floor, plus a number of slides of varying heights to try out. Because of the breadth of areas contained in Boonshoft, they have what may be the most impressive list of reciprocal agreements I think I may have seen at one place. If you have a membership to your local science museum, zoo, or kids museum, it's worth asking when you come in if they have an agreement with them. We got 50% off on the spot through our zoo membership, which was nice. There's a nice sized parking lot out front, and the many staff members we interacted with were very helpful and informative. You can bring in food or utilize the restaurant on-site. In addition to the restaurant seating, there is a good seating area in a room across the hall with some nice windows where you can enjoy a packed meal.

I haven't been here in years! We used to bring the kids here for the playground but the entire…read moremuseum is super cool. Lots of spaces to wander thru, lots of eye catching displays to keep you entertained and elevate use of your brain. The waterway is one of may favorite parts of the museum and glad it's still up and running 20+ years later. We actually went to watch the Mesmerica 360 show in the dome theater. That was rather mundane to me but that's not the fault of the museum. My biggest peeve of the visit was seeing the us flag was still being masted when it is in tatters. I posted in my 'check in' and I will post again here in my review that it's time to retire this flag and replace with a fresh replacement. Whomever is in charge of the grounds here should be embarrassed. Please do better.

Buongiorno Italian…read morefall 2025 Festival My 100% Italian Wife has instructed me to provide sunny weather for the Festival, which is arguably the nicest festival in the Greater Dayton Metropolitan Area. A weekend of wonderful Italian music, delicious Italian food, good friends, and lots of great Italian food. And of course, a large TV for the Ohio State game. Caveat: we always take our own flatware to avoid the inexpensive plastic ware provided. The John Pirelli Lodge of OSIA is located at Bella Villa Hall on County Line Road in Dayton OH, and we have been attending for 50+ years. I have never understood that many folks seek out pizza at the Italian Festival. There are at least 100 plus pizza joints in the Greater Dayton Metropolitan Area which offer much better pizza. There is real Italian food here - just ask all of the Italians in the food booths. I have also never understood why this festival cannot provide great Italian Pepperoni Rolls. Has no one taken the famous WV Italian Pepperoni Roll Trail (which is now extended to Davis, WV?) I always pass on Baked Italian Pasta unless it is lasagna. I have observed my dear wife making homemade lasagna, and we both comprehend the reasons that the festival cannot provide lasagna. Today it is (baked) Italian Shells plus Spicy Italian sausage and loads of other Italian goodies. As expected the shells are much overcooked and the Spicy Italian sausage is perfect. One of the very best festival offerings is the Spicy Italian sausage, which is arguably superior to any sausage offered at the Dayton Art Institute October Fest. My dear wife implores us to arrive by noon; she can easily make several laps around the grounds and scope out the many Italian Delights including 50 homemade Italian cookies and of course, the gelato. We have friends and family who delay their arrival until 6:00 PM, and we perceive controlled chaos during evening hours. Of course, we tend to enjoy arrival at the many Dayton and Ohio festivals. Great that the Italian Festive is very family friendly from newborns to folks in their nineties.

Food was bad this year. The pizza crust was not the same, it use to be crispy crust this year 2025…read morewas just flat dough, the crust is what the pizza so delicious. Also my family had several issues with the other food. Be careful who you get to make your food, food poison is not funny!! The cookies are way over priced to be as bad as they were.

This is an absolute gem with so much to see it could really be multiple different museums…read more You enter the main building from the very spacious parking lot. You can get admission to just the site, add on admission to the Wright's home (offered on certain days for an additional charge) and also add on for the train or carousel rides. Overall, admission is very reasonable at $14 for adults and $10 per child. Worth it considering all that you can see and do at the site. There are a lot of historic buildings you can enter. Most have placards outside describing what their history is. Some of them had costumed interpreters in them and some with animatronics. (which my daughter declared as super creepy). In the main building, there are exhibits about the history of Dayton where you can learn things like that at one point, Dayton had the most patents of anywhere in the US and the cash register was invented here. It was cool learning about the area (even though we aren't from here). I imagine it would be even more impactful if you were local. There is also the Wright Brothers building with a ton of information about the Wright Brothers and more Wright artifacts than any other museum or location. Everything is very well maintained and all of the staff are friendly and just waiting to give you information about whatever area they are in. If you go to Dayton, make sure you visit here!

So, this place is awesome. It's like half railroad park, half Wright-brothers park, half historical…read moremuseum, and half outdoor garden-park. THAT'S FOUR HALVES!!!! I went here as part of a group, and they seem to get a lot of school field trips, but they're well organized, and it's a big place, so even with a ton of kids at the place, you don't feel like you're crowded. They have really great people working here, who are more than happy to answer your questions and explain things to you. I had like, fifteen minutes alone with the candle-maker lady and my son, and she entertained all of his questions and was really cool to talk with. They have a lot of Dayton-related history around NCR, and flight, and nuclear energy, and old automobiles. I bet it's a blast to work there. My favorite part though, was the outdoors area. It's just a really well maintained facility with lots of big old trees, and shade, and you can really just kick back and relax and chill out.

A great fly-in/festival. Not quite an airshow, though a T-6 added noise and smoke, and there were…read moreother occasional flybys of lightplanes. More of a fly-in for area pilots and aviation enthusiasts. Not huge like the Dayton airshow or anything. Very accessible, very family-friendly. Plenty of nearby parking, with even a few shade trees. Food trucks, ice cream, etc. Crafts for kids like compressed-air rocket making. Pedal planes. And biplane rides! Sign up early, there's a wait. Then look around, at the planes on display, the large car show, etc., while you wait for your call. Friendly people. No big crowds. Plenty of porta-potties. Shade. We had a blast. Baby K wanted to go up in a plane, so we did. $80 adults, $60 kids, for a pretty long ride. Cheaper than the WACO fly-in I think. She also loved making rockets. Lots of dogs there too, just a nice atmosphere all around. Some of the feel of Oshkosh, without the immensity.