Newark (Ohio)

By plane

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By train

Newark has no scheduled passenger train service, but there are 4 Amtrak stations within 100 miles of Newark.

• Alliance, OH (ALC) - 92.3 miles north
• Elyria, OH (ELY) - 94.5 miles north
• South Portsmouth - South Shore, KY (SPM) - 95.4 miles south
• Sandusky, OH (SKY) - 99.6 miles north

By car

From Columbus: Take Interstate 70 east to exit 129B (State Route 79 north). Newark is 9 miles to the north on State Route 79.
Alternately, take State Route 161 east to Granville, where it meets State Route 16. Continue east on State Route 16 another 5 miles to Newark.

By bus

Although there is no service to Newark, Greyhound bus service is available in Columbus and Zanesville.

By Bike

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The Thomas Evans Bike Trail connects to Granville

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• Moundbuilders EarthworksThis site covers most of Newark. Two main areas have been preserved. One area is at the park where you will find an embankment that is 1,200 feet in diameter with earthen walls from 8 to 14 feet hign enclosing a 26 acre area. The other more impressive site (Octagon Earthworks) has a golf course located in it with some efforts of preservation, there is an observation stand.

• The Octagon Earthworks

• Wright EarthworksWright Earthworks, located less than a block west of the SR 79 intersection at Grant St.in Newark, Licking County. The earthwork remnants may be viewed from James Street, a short distance from Grant Street and the SR 79 interchange. Hopewell Indians (100 BC-AD 500

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• Flint Ridge State Memorial3 miles south of Cynthia, near (south/east) Newark, Ohio, off of SR 668. Flint Ridge is a restored prehistoric quarry pit with a museum that explains both the digging and shaping of flint. It is a site well worth the visit. There is a flint knap-in (teaching, exhibiting flint knapping, swap flint) every Labor Day week end. At the opposite end of the park there is a camping area that has a fossil swap the same week end.

• The Works: Ohio Center for History, Art & Technology

  phone: +1 740-349-9277
  address: 55 S 1st St

• CoCo Key Water Resort

  phone: +1 740-788-1330
  address: 2299 Cherry Valley Rd SE

• Dawes Arboretum

• Blackhand Gorge State Nature Preserve

  address: 2200 Gratiot Rd SE

• Don & Sue's Pizza

  phone: +1 740 522-8457
  address: 730 West Church Street

• DoubleTree by Hilton Newark

  phone: +1 740-322-6455
  address: 50 N 2nd St