Sports

• Columbus Blue Jackets, National Hockey League
• Columbus Crew, Major League Soccer in the first soccer-specific arena in America
• Columbus Clippers, AAA Major League Baseball affiliate of the Cleveland Indians
• PGA Memorial Golf Tournament hosted by Jack Nicklaus
• NCAA Division 1 athletics: 37 teams represent The Ohio State University, including the perennially ranked football team, which plays in the 104,944-seat Ohio Stadium
• Ohio High School Athletic Association: state championship tournaments for 13 different sports are hosted annually in the Columbus area

Sporting Events and Happenings

• The Arnold (Schwarzenegger) Sports Festival: four days, 75 sports, 20,000+ athletes from around the world
• Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon
• Pelotonia: three-day fundraising bike tour, with 100% of all rider-raised dollars going to cancer research at Ohio State
• More than 32 private and 79 public or semi-private golf courses
• Eldorado Gaming Scioto Downs harness racing

Parks and Recreation

• Newly renovated downtown riverfront park system
• CoGo Bike Share
• SegAway Tours of Columbus
• Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
• 330-mile Ohio to Erie Trail for biking
• Water recreation areas including Hoover Reservoir, Alum Creek Lake, the Scioto and Olentangy rivers and nearby Buckeye Lake
• 20 metro parks with more than 200 miles of trails and 28,500 acres
• Dawes Arboretum
• Five Ohio ski resorts two hours or less from Columbus
• 75 state parks and 142 nature preserves, including nearby Hocking Hills

• Fashion Week Columbus — our city has the third-highest concentration of fashion designers in the nation, just behind New York and Los Angeles  
• Columbus Arts Festival — since 1962, with more than 250 global artists  
• The Short North Arts District and monthly Gallery Hop  
• Columbus Symphony Orchestra Masterworks programs and Picnic with the Pops  
• Opera Columbus  
• BalletMet  
• Columbus Museum of Art  
• Wexner Center for the Arts  
• Thurber House literary center for writers  
• Express Live! — America’s first indoor/outdoor concert venue  
• Newport Music Hall, the longest continually running rock club in the nation  
• King Arts Complex — celebrating African American artists  
• Cultural Arts Center  
• Glass Axis, offering hands-on workshops and exhibitions  
• Shakespeare in the Park

Need to entertain the kids? We have them covered, too.

• COSI (Center of Science and Industry)
• Columbus Zoo and Aquarium  
• Columbus Metropolitan Library  
• Ohio State Fair — nearly 950,000 visitors enjoy this 12-day event  
• Ohio History Center and Ohio Village  
• Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens  
• Zoombezi Bay water park  
• Olentangy Indian Caverns  
• Columbus Children’s Theatre  
• Red, White and Boom —the largest Independence Day fireworks festival in the Midwest