Travelanddineohio.com
Mike and I are water people. We love the water and have a boat that we love to take out on the water. Every summer we go up around Lake Erie and on our last drive up (without the boat this time), we drove up to Port Clinton and then along the coast to Marblehead. As an artist, I love this area.
The lighthouse at Marblehead is over 200 years old and the site has been designated a state park. The keeper’s house is now a museum and the grounds are beautiful. A great place to picnic and watch the boats out on the lakes. I enjoy taking photos here that I can paint later.
Lakeside Ohio has an annual art show and is a beautiful private community along the shore of Lake Erie. Founded by the Methodist Church which still uses it for the annual conference. While they are a private community, they have events all summer and have cabin and cottage rentals. There is a campground as well.
Marblehead is just to the east of Lakeside and has a vacation town, almost a Key West, atmosphere with small shops and dining all along East Harbor Road. We have stopped at a few of the small restaurants here in Marblehead, but today we decided to eat at Netty’s a hot dog stand. Netty’s serves chili dogs, hot dogs, French fries and root beer. My husband believes he is a great judge of hotdogs, and he declared Netty’s to be great tasting dogs.
They have a beautiful setting there under the trees and you can’t miss the orange painted building. They do not have indoor seating but have picnic tables under the large awning in front and more out back under the trees. They also have plenty of parking.
Of course, we could not drive through Port Clinton without stopping at Cheese Haven. We had to get our favorite cheese spreads and crackers. I also stock up on my favorite Lake Erie wine. They also have meats and fish and candy and many kinds of cheese.
