🤯Can you believe this is in Ohio!? 👉🏼Follow @hikingwithhykes for more bucket list travel content! 🥾I have spent my entire life as an Ohio resident, but after visiting Aullwood Audubon near Dayton, Ohio I wish I knew about it sooner! 🧌Aullwood Audubon is a nature realm near Dayton, Ohio and is known for its giant troll statues tucked away in the forest. 💰It costs $13 per adult to enter and the trail to see the trolls is about 2 miles round trip! ❤️Save this hike for your Ohio bucket list! |

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🌿✨ Step into history at the Dayton VA Grotto Gardens—once the pride of the Dayton Soldiers’ Home, known to Civil War vets as the “Mother Home.” 🌻Built by veterans in the 1860s with stone archways, springs, and lush plantings, the gardens drew hundreds of thousands of visitors a year at their peak. 🌸 🐊 In its peak the gardens had heated pools for alligators and even a dancing bear! After decades of decline, volunteers have beautifully restored them into a living memorial and peaceful escape f