🌸 Lavender Fest at Bellavenue Manor📍 207 S 10th St, McConnelsville, OH🕙 10 AM – 5 PM This year at the Lavender Fest at Bellavenue Manor, Ohio’s Winding Road is hosting a creative classroom where creativity meets community! With a ticket, you can join hands-on workshops led by local makers and create your own handcrafted…

This spring, forty-five mini-grants totaling more than $13,000 were awarded to businesses, individuals, organizations, and municipalities located in eight counties served by Ohio’s Winding Road. This program was made possible in part thanks to the generosity of Community Foundation of Morgan County, Muskingum County Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Perry County, and Athens County Foundation….

Seed Grants Ohio’s Winding Road (OWR) is proud to offer producers in Southeastern Ohio’s nine counties: Athens, Fairfield, Perry, Vinton, and Washington seed grants up to $750. Funds are designated for the development and marketing of authentic experiences and products. This grant program aims to support initiatives that genuinely represent the unique character of the…

This spring, thirty-eight mini-grants totaling more than $14,000 were awarded to businesses, individuals, organizations, and municipalities located in the nine-county area served by Ohio’s Winding Road. Ohio’s Winding Road seed grants are all under $700 and designed to fill in gaps or jumpstart local projects or businesses. Here are the winners: ABC Players Annie Warmke…

The Ohio’s Winding Road brand is an important tool for bringing value to our region, and we are in the process of trademarking and copyrighting the logo. We encourage businesses and organizations to make use of our logo, especially if it can help leverage your product’s development to a larger audience. We see this as…

Wow! The OWR Network has five years behind us an earnest network guided by an Operations Team made up of backbone organizations (Ohio’s Hill Country Heritage Area, ACENet, Rural Action, Ohio University*) and a Contractor Team made up of part-time contractors (John Winnenberg, Amy Grove, Brian Harnetty, Delia Palmisano and most recently Mary Lou Wycinski,…

We are so excited to share our new video called “Sharing Our Appalachia,” made with support from Tourism Ohio. In the video, we visit several places along Ohio’s Winding Road, including Chesterhill, the Buckeye Trail, the Bailey’s Trail system, Shawnee, and Burr Oak State Park. We hope the video instills pride in southeastern Ohio, and…