Upper Sandusky

Tourist Information

• Wyandot County Visitors Bureau

  phone: +1 419 294-3556
  address: 108 E Wyandot

By plane

By car

US Hwy 23 and 30 are the main highways into town. They bypass around the north and east side of town with US Hwy 23 going north and south while US Hwy 30 continue east and west.

Locally Sandusky Ave (SR-53 & 199) divides east from west while Wyandot Ave (old hwy 30) divides north from south. Both Sandusky and Wyandot Ave intersect in the middle of town. US Hwy 23 and 30 bypass around the north and east side of town as a freeway with traffic going at higher speeds. US Hwy 23 goes north and south while US Hwy 30 continue east and west.

• Wyandot County Museum

  phone: +1 419 294-3857
  address: 130 S. Seventh Street
  The Wyandot County Museum is a historic home was built in 1852 for the Beery family. The home was later occupied by one of the Beery daughters, Leefe (Beery) McConnell and her family. The home was donated to the Wyandot County Historical Society by the McConnell family and opened as a museum in 1962. The museum is now home to artifacts and documents relating to the history of Wyandot County.

• Wyandot County Courthouse

  address: 109 S Sandusky Ave
  The historic courthouse attracts many visitors and is considered a unique structure for its style and the interior paintings. These paintings adorn the foyer with a three flight marble staircase in the middle. The courtroom on the third floor was used in the movie, "The Shawshank Redemption" where the main character, Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), stood trial in and was convicted for the murders of his wife and her lover. The building still functions as a courthouse but the courtroom where Andy stood trial can be open for viewing if court is not in session inside. Call ahead to be sure, otherwise one can still walk around the hallways to marvel at the architecture. Click this separate link if you are traveling to Upper Sandusky for legal proceedings and need to access the Court Clerk's website for information. (The other link is the visitor center's website describing the courthouse as a tourist attraction)

• Wyandot Mission ChurchThe Wyandot Mission Church, located on East Church Street in the Old Mission Cemetery, is the first officially recognized mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Many of the Wyandot people from the Grand Reservation worshipped there until the U.S. Government ordered their relocation to Kansas in 1843. The church was built in 1824 under the direction of Reverend James B. Finley, restored in 1889 and registered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1976

• Shawshank Woodshop

  phone: +1 419 835-5042
  address: 226 S 8th St
  The prison woodshop scene, inmates working on the roof, and the scene where Red (Morgan Freeman) and his fellow inmates stop to listen to "The Marriage of Figaro" playing over the PA system, in "Shawshank Redemption" where filmed here instead of the reformatory in Mansfield. The building and the site is now dedicated as a museum to the filming of Shawshank redemption. Since the end of filming the owners had acquired and put together props from the movie such as the bus used to transport Andy to prison and the ambulance that took Boggs out to another infirmary facility elsewhere as exhibits. Other props such as the pipe in which Andy crawled through to escape are at the Mansfield Reformatory in Mansfield. The woodshop can be rented for weddings, graduation parties, class reunions, birthday parties, company holiday parties or some other private gathering.

• Harrison Smith Park

  address: 525 E Wyandot Ave
  Has a public pool, picnic shelters, and scenic pond.

• Wyandot County Fair

  phone: +1 419-294-4320
  address: 10171 State Hwy 53 N

• Don Tomasso's Italian & American Kitchen

  phone: +1 419 294-0500
  address: 123 W. Wyandot

• Great Dragon Chinese Restaurant

  phone: +1 419-294-2989
  address: 1187 E Wyandot Ave

• The Steer Barn

  phone: +1 419 294-3860
  address: 1144 E Wyandot Ave

• Beca's Coffeehouse

  phone: +1 419-731-4961
  address: 128 S Sandusky Ave

• Shotzy's Bar & Grille

  phone: +1 419 731-4030
  address: 130 N. Sandusky

• The Steer Barn Steakhouse & Cocktail Lounge

  phone: +1 419-294-3860
  address: 1144 E Wyandot Ave
  The 1897 red barn that's been retrofitted into a steakhouse.

Only a couple of places stay at US Hwy 23 & E Wyandot.

• Royalton Inn & Suites

  phone: +1 419-294-3919
  address: 1726 East Wyandot Ave

• Quality Inn

  phone: +1 419 294-3891
  address: 105 Comfort Dr

• Upper Sandusky Community Library

  phone: +1 419 294-1345
  address: 301 N Sandusky Ave

• Upper Sandusky Post Office

  phone: +1 419 294-1911
  address: 122 W Wyandot Ave

Wyandot County

• Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation

  phone: +1 419-396-7107
  address: 315 Clay St
  A large Catholic shrine in Carey Ohio.

Nearby Cities

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