I've been trying to find some airports to fly to that had some scenery around Cincinnati/Ohio area. Any suggestions?

Plenty of options, I like to head down towards KHOC highland county and just fly. Where are you based out of? I work in cinci, live near dayton, and once it dries out will have my Tcraft up and going.

Bigmoose - the cool airstrips are not on the sectionals! Go east for sure. For example, at the town Butler (SE of Mansfield) is a cool grass strip next to a bike path. Walk that path 1/3 mile and there is a nice restaurant. Between that strip and my place (55 miles SE of there), there are ten strips, and only one shows up in the data bases.

patrol guy wrote:Bigmoose - the cool airstrips are not on the sectionals! Go east for sure. For example, at the town Butler (SE of Mansfield) is a cool grass strip next to a bike path. Walk that path 1/3 mile and there is a nice restaurant. Between that strip and my place (55 miles SE of there), there are ten strips, and only one shows up in the data bases.

We need to make a registry of these.

Follow John and the obp crew around. You will learn of many places.

My first unpaved landings were done at Packer Airport near Radnor, Ohio (5E9). This is north of Columbus, so may or may not be within the area that you were looking to visit.

I always had fun going into that strip, and Richard Packer was an interesting guy to talk with. He's an old crop duster, and had a lot of stories about his time in that business. He also has some nice vintage planes he restored there (a couple of Stearman biplanes, and maybe some others -- at least one was an award winner at Oshkosh if I recall. I remember drooling on them when he took us to the hangar to see them). The airstrip is easy by BCP standards, at about 3,400x90ft of good turf, but I always found it to be an enjoyable visit. I've been in and out of that strip in Cessna 152s, 172's, and a 172RG, so no special equipment is required... might be boring for some folks, given the videos I've seen on this site!

I haven't been there since probably 2002 or so, but I intend to head back that way if I'm ever flying in the midwest again.