Travel guides to Cleveland, Ohio and the Great Lakes, selected by Cleveland-OH.com editors, including travel books, dining guides, maps and Cleveland-specific specialty guides. Featuring top travel guides such as CitySmart Cleveland, Lonely Planet Great Lakes and Rand McNally Cleveland maps.
Cleveland Guidebooks
City Smart: Cleveland By Nancy Peacock A smart travel guide for the lakeside city of Cleveland that tells insider's secrets for Lake Erie's south shore and local Cleveland lore to supplement detailed Cleveland neighborhood maps that take Cleveland visitors on frame by frame tour of Cleveland hotels and restaurants as well as Cleveland attractions like the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame and the nightlife on the Flats, with over 60 photos that bring the Cleveland travel information to life.
Lonely Planet Great Lakes: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Ontario Shore By Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Thomas Huhti and Mark Lightbody An indispensable Ohio and Great Lakes travel guide for international travelers, and important for domestic travelers as well, the Lonely Planet Great Lakes covers everything from the area's history to flora and fauna, as well as covering Great Lakes arts, education and culture. Lonely Planet Great Lakes is an excellent travel resource for all budgets and details area attractions, hotels and restaurants for the area's major metropolitan areas--Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Indianapolis and St. Paul-- and also provides useful maps.
Cleveland Family Guides
Cleveland Family Fun By Jennifer Stoffel
Kids Love Ohio: A Parent's Guide to Exploring Fun Places in Ohio With Children... Year Round By George Zavatsky and Michele Zavatsky Or how to make Cleveland and Ohio a family fun zone. This Ohio guide for families includes addresses, numbers and internet addresses for Cleveland and Ohio's many family-friendly attractions, like farms and zoos, as well as outdoor activities for any Ohio season.
Cleveland Maps
Rand McNally Cleveland Streetfinder By Rand McNally Spiral bound and durable, this Cleveland map includes a street grid organized by Cleveland areas, and includes maps to the surrounding Cuyahoga, Geauga and Lake Counties.
Cleveland Dining Guides
A Travel Companion to Lake Erie Wineries By D.L. Tadevich Nearly as rich as the wine it details, Tadevich's tour of Lake Erie Wineries is filled with color photographs and all the practical information needed for planning a trip (near or far) to Lake Erie wineries, like Haprersfield Winery in Geneva-on-the-Lake. Tadevich (who writes like a conspiratory connoisseur) includes interesting and quirky details about each winery and lists each Ohio vinter's must-try wines, as well as the palate adjectives they conjure.
Cleveland Ethnic Eats 2003 By Laura Taxel Laura Taxel is the Plains' food guru, having written food and culture articles and reviews for The Ohio Magazine and Cleveland Magazine before compiling this definitive guide to Cleveland's ethnic flavors in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio restaurants and markets. Taxel includes over 200 restaurant and market listings--sans hamburgers and milk shakes but including paella--in this up-to-date 2003 edition.
Cleveland Excursion Guides
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Cleveland By Diane Stresing
Cleveland Fishing Guide By John Barbo
Cleveland Golfers Bible By John H. Tidyman
Cleveland On Foot 3rd Edition By Patience Cameron Hoskins From the urban high-rises of downtown Cleveland to Cleveland's greener side, this get-walking Cleveland guide cover the spectrum of Cleveland's neighborhoods and natural area, including city walks (past Cleveland art and architecture) and country trails rated for difficulty and buffered with background information.
Golf Getaways From Cleveland By John H. Tidyman
Quick Escapes Cleveland: 25 Weekend Getaways from Ohio's North Coast (Quick Escapes Series) By Marcia Schonberg Cleveland visitors on an extended stay (even Cleveland residents on a permanent stay) might want to take an easy mini-vacation for a weekend, out of Cleveland proper and on to the waterfalls and gorges of Hocking Hills, the lighthouses on Lake Michigan or the artists' colonies and antique shops in Greater Buffalo and Ontario. National Geographic Traveler calls Schonberg's twenty-five Ohio adventures (along with route maps, restaurants and lodging), "Well-conceived and presented, with day-by-day itineraries," which most of all show how accessible quick escapes really are from Cleveland.
Cleveland Specialty Guides
365 Ways to Meet People in Cleveland By Miriam Carey New to Cleveland or in for just a few days, Carey's guide to meeting Clevelanders gets Cleveland visitors (friends, couples, families, singles and networkers) out of the hotel and into local Cleveland nightlife and restaurants, recreation centers and parks, with this guide to where the locals gather in Cleveland.
52 Romantic Outings in Greater Cleveland By Miriam Carey Miriam Carey doesn't just wax poetic in her guide to the romantic side of Cleveland. Instead, Carey's Cleveland guide points out the specifics of where to go (and how to get there) for romantic inspiration, including grand romancers like Cleveland's arches and dancing, surrounding area waterfalls and the best vantage points for a Lake Erie sunset, and even spots for a romantic picnic lunch in downtown Cleveland.
Building Ohio: A Traveler's Guide to Ohio's Urban Architecture By Jane Ware The over 600 examples of Ohio architecture Ware covers include Ohio museums and churches, courthouses and skyscrapers, and barns and factories, detailed with photographs, floorplans and directions on how to get there (from Cleveland to Cincinnati to smaller rural outposts). Ware includes famous architects who designed buildings in Ohio alongside unsung local architects who shaped Ohio's beautiful places.
James Dean Died Here: The Location of America's Pop Culture Landmarks By Chris Epting Prepare to turn a road trip into a journey across the pop culture landscape and finally locate the exact place of events that made it into local newspapers as well as long-term cultural memory. From the already familiar yet suspicious Area 51 to the exact corner where one Hugh Grant propositioned a Hollywood hooker, this unusual United States cultural guide is filled with little known facts and obscure sights, offering an itinerary a map of America's pop culture hot spots. (Review by Shannon Ryan)
Ohio Oddities: A Guide to the Curious Attractions of the Buckeye State By Neil Zurcher While Ohio might be on the straight and narrow (especially compared with San Francisco or South Beach), it does have a zany side. Zurcher's guide to the uncommon Buckeye State gives the background on strange encounters with crystal balls, the largest Gathering of Twins anywhere, over-sized Cuckoo Clocks and where and when to find other odd Ohio places and events of note.
Rock 'N' Roll and the Cleveland Connection By Deanna R. Adams
Tiki Road Trip: A Guide to Tiki Culture in North America By James Teitelbaum This book is dedicated to the faded but not forgotten cult of Tiki kitsch and follows the fad that began with an American fascination with the exotic and culminated in a drinking and dining experience known as "Polynesian Pop," complete with its own soundtrack and pop aesthetic. In this guide to the remaining U.S. and international tributes to Tiki, Teitelbaum unearths the source of the Tiki craze and preserves pop culture history by listing and rating the diaspora of Tiki bars, restaurants and sites, providing a glossary of Tiki terms and a list of classic drink recipes. (Review by Shannon Ryan)
