Columbus
Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S.
Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a population of 905,748 at the 2020 census, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., second-most populous city in the Midwest, and third-most populous U.S. state capital. The Columbus metropolitan area, with an estimated 2.23 million residents, is the largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and 32nd-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware and Fairfield counties.
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Worth seeing in and around Columbus
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Ohio State University
The Ohio State University is a public research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1870, it is the flagship institution of the University System of Ohio.
4.4 km · public research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 02Nationwide Arena
Nationwide Arena is a multi-purpose arena in the Arena District of Columbus, Ohio, United States. Since completion in 2000, the arena has served as the home of the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League.
900 m · arena in Columbus, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 03Historic Crew Stadium
Historic Crew Stadium, previously known as Columbus Crew Stadium and Mapfre Stadium, is a soccer-specific stadium adjacent to Interstate 71 in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It primarily served as the home stadium of the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from 1999 until 2021, when the team moved to ScottsMiracle-Gro Field.
5.3 km · soccer stadium in Columbus, Ohio · Wikipedia - 04ScottsMiracle-Gro Field
ScottsMiracle-Gro Field is a soccer-specific stadium in Columbus, Ohio, United States, that serves primarily as the home stadium of the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer and an expansion team of the National Women's Soccer League. It opened in 2021 as Lower.com Field, replacing the club's previous home, Historic Crew Stadium.
1.6 km · soccer stadium in Columbus, Ohio · Wikipedia - 05Columbus Museum of Art
The Columbus Museum of Art is an art museum in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.
1.1 km · Museum in Columbus, Ohio, United States · Wikipedia - 06Diocese of Columbus
The Diocese of Columbus is a diocese of the Catholic Church covering 23 counties in central Ohio in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.
500 m · diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States · Wikipedia - 07Ohio Stadium
Ohio Stadium is an American football stadium in Columbus, Ohio, on the campus of Ohio State University. It primarily serves as the home venue of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team and is also the site for the university's Spring Commencement ceremonies each May.
4.7 km · stadium in Columbus, Ohio, USA · Wikipedia - 08Wexner Center for the Arts
The Wexner Center for the Arts is the Ohio State University's "multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art." The Wexner Center is a lab and public gallery, but not an art museum, as it does not collect art. However, when the center was constructed, it replaced the University Gallery of Fine Arts, and assumed possession and stewardship of the University Gallery's permanent collection of roughly 3,000 art works.
4.3 km · center at Ohio State University · Wikipedia - 09Ohio Statehouse
The Ohio Statehouse is the state capitol building and seat of government for the U.S. state of Ohio. The Greek Revival building is located on Capitol Square in downtown Columbus.
200 m · state capitol building of the U.S. state of Ohio · Wikipedia - 10St. Joseph Cathedral
St. Joseph Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located in Columbus, Ohio in the United States that serves as the seat of the Diocese of Columbus.
500 m · church in Ohio, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Columbus
- Airports
- John Glenn Columbus (CMH), 10 km · Cincinnati Northern Kentucky (CVG), 175 km · Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), 188 km
- Cincinnati / Covington → Columbus164 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · $15–20
- Cleveland → Columbus203 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · $18–25
- Pittsburgh → Columbus261 km · quickest by road, 4h 33m · $24–33
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Columbus
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Columbus. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inA small number of passenger airlines and charter flights use this airport.
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Next door to Columbus
- The Short Northneighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, United States2 km
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- German Villagehistoric district in Columbus, Ohio, USA1.9 km