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Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 17, 2026
This 1.5-mile natural surface out and back trail passes under a bridge (sort of a small tunnel) and meanders through a field with wildflowers, lots of butterflies, then into lush woods and along Millers Creek. The creek has lots of flat boulders creating a small cascading waterfall.
Investigation Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 18, 2026
Considering that a month ago I stopped at the Wendy’s/Dave Thomas Museum in Columbus, Ohio, I was compelled to stop at another food related roadside attraction, Col. Harlan Saunders/ KRC Museum in Corbin. This site was where the Colonel had his first restaurant in 1932 and his original gas pump is outside. The KFC restaurant has for no additional charge many attached rooms full of KFC memorabilia, giveaways, signs, a kitchen, informational kiosks and TV’s showing the history of how Col. Sanders started and grew the KFC franchises. And best yet, I bought and ate delicious KCF chicken which truly is finger lickin’ good. This is a must stop, especially if you are hungry.
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 7, 2026
At the southbound rest area, a quarter mile hiking trail gives drivers the opportunity to really stretch their legs and get revitalized. The trail goes uphill and periodically at the base of various trees are ten wood gnome doors with a QR code created by local high school students. The QR code has information about the tree or about the gnome that lives there.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 7, 2026
Harry’s offers a wide selection of burgers and side dishes. Piggy’s Ice Cream was not open when we visited. In between the two buildings was the Hooterville Jail which you could pose behind the jail bars. Next door, various animal sculptures adorned the rooftop.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 7, 2026
This was very unique as a John Deere tractor is located on top of a thirty+ foot silo located at a family farm and apple orchard.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 16, 2026
Although this roadside attraction cow was very large and in good condition, I still expected it to be much bigger (although it is larger than the cow in Waynesville, Ohio). It is easy to find and stands by the entrance to a flea market.
The EAA Chapter 48 hosts this event on the first Sunday in May at the Moraine Airpark. It is the nation’s longest running same day continuous fly-in now in its 66th year. As a member of the Wright Seaplane Base Inc. club, which keeps alive the history of Orville Wrights 100 hydroaeroplane or seaplane test flights between 1912 and 1914 on the Miami River in Moraine & West Carrollton, I was volunteering at the WSBI tent. The event featured over 50 vintage, experimental or modern planes, great food and helicopter rides. My sister and I took our first ever helicopter ride on a Robinson R-44 (built in 2008) and enjoyed a thrilling ride with outstanding views of the Miami River, Dayton area, and suburbs. The grandkids enjoyed sitting in the plane’s cockpits.
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 21, 2026
This large park featured wetlands, forests and prairies. We warmed up on the one-mile Red Oak Trail taking us through woods where we saw chipmunks and many birds. A short prairie trail took us past a Wind & Solar Learning Center (with a large wind turbine) then to the longer Marsh Hawk Trail and a small portion of the Savannah Trail which is a horse trail. In all, we hiked just over four miles. I took a photo of a teenager that had a unique backpack with a window for carrying her dog on the bike trail (Photo #4).
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
On this sunny, warm spring day we hiked 13 different small trails throughout this Clark County Park District park totaling 4.1 miles. We began on Tecumseh Trail cresting Whiner’s Hill and past a beautiful waterfall. The 300-year-old beech-maple forest provided nice shade as we passed wildflowers and listened to many birds chirping. The trail then took down small hills, westward winding past the shore of Hosterman Lake then southwest eventually coming to a fort and the 1854 Hertzler House. Several smaller trails then took us past Tecumseh Springs to the Woodland Indian Village.
The triangular fort and blockhouse are modeled after a larger one in the Shawnee Village of Peckuwe. This area of the park and the land west of the Hertzler House were the site of the Battle of Piqua or Picawey on August 8, 1780, the largest battle fought west of the Allegheny Mountains during the Revolutionary War. Kentucky Militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clarks defeated Shawnee and other Indian tribes.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
The mound, the largest conical mound in Clark County, is the second largest in Ohio next to the larger Adena Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the mound was reportedly used by Gen. George Rogers Clark in 1780 as a vantage point prior to the attack on the Shawnee Village of Picawey located two miles to the north. The mound is 40 feet high and there has been no evidence that burials exist in the mound nor have any Adena artifacts have been found.
