Northeast Ohio offers the big city museums, shopping and sports of Cleveland, the peaceful lakefront beauty of Lake and Ashtabula counties and Amish farms, food and hand-crafted goods in Geauga county.
Romantic bed and breakfasts include the luxurious, early 20th century Glidden House, located next door to the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, the Lakehouse Inn and Winery in the Lake Erie resort town of Geneva-on-the-Lake, about an hour's drive east of Cleveland (ask for the private beach house with its own spacious deck) and Burton Ohio's Red Maple Inn, in the heart of Ohio's Amish country.
Columbus and central Ohio are the home of the Ohio State government, Ohio State University football and charming neighborhoods like German Village and the Short North arts community in Columbus.
For a romantic weekend, consider the three-room German Village Guest House in Columbus, with its gas-burning fireplaces and fully-stocked kitchens. Or, try the 25-room Granville Inn in Granville, east of Columbus. This classic English manor house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and noted for its dining room.
The southwestern part of the Buckeye State can be romantic, too. Cincinnati offers dramatic Ohio River views, riverboats, eclectic neighborhoods like Bohemian Mount Adams and, of course, Cincinnati chili.
Several of the city's bed and breakfast inns are housed in appealing,19th century Victorian homes, such as the five-room Clifton House with its sweeping front porch and crown moldings, and the four-story Gaslight Bed and Breakfast Inn, which boasts high ceilings, hardwood floors and stained glass windows.
Visitors to northwest Ohio will find some of the best walleye fishing in the world, Toledo, the "Glass Capital of the World" and home to an extensive art glass collection and acres of scenic farm and wooded expanses.
Romantic bed and breakfasts in this area include the three bedroom, Victorian Housley House in Grand Rapids, along the Maumee River southwest of Toledo, and the four-bedroom, 1887-era Mansion View Bed and Breakfast, in Toledo's historic Old West End neighborhood by the Toledo Art Museum.
