Guide to Cincinnati

• Local Health & Safety Information

 

Nearest Hospitals

Christ Hospital (2139 Auburn Ave.)

Good Samaritan Hospital (375 Dixmyth Ave.)

Nearest Trauma Center

University of Cincinnati Medical Center
(3188 Bellevue Ave.)

Nearest Urgent Care

Mt. Auburn Urgent Care (2230 Auburn Ave)
M-F 9 am to 6 pm; Saturday 9 am to 4 pm

Nearest Pharmacy

Walgreens

406 Main Street 

(Northeast corner of Main & 4th)

Store: M-F 7 am to 7 pm / Saturday 9 am to 4 pm / closed Sunday

Pharmacy: M-F 8 am to 6 pm / closed Saturday & Sunday

Nearest 24-Hour Pharmacy

Walgreens, Newport, KY

1601 Monmouth St.

(Southeast corner of Monmouth & Carrothers)

Newport, KY 41071

Store: 24 hours

Pharmacy: M-F, 8 am to 10 pm / Saturday 9 am to 6 pm / Sunday 10 am to 6 pm

Nearest Grocery Store

Kroger On the Rhine / On the Rhine Eatery

100 E Court Street

Daily 6 am to 10 pm

 

• The Connector—Cincinnati’s Free Street Car

 

*LINK TO SYSTEM MAP*

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The Connector is an electric-powered streetcar that operates along a 3.6-mile loop connecting Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine (OTR) neighborhood (to the north) and Banks neighborhoods (to the south, near the Hyatt Regency) via the Central Business District. It is free to ride.

 

The nearest Connector station to the Hyatt Regency is Station 18 (Fountain Square), two blocks east of the Hyatt on Walnut Street just south of 5th.

 

Take the Connector to get to many of the restaurants and cultural sites in and near Over-the-Rhine (OTR).
 

Connector Hours of Operation

Monday through Friday: 7:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Saturday: 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Sunday: 9:30 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. 

 

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• Things to do in (and near) Cincinnati 

 

Downtown (close to the hotel)

 

Carew Tower (441 Vine St): A leading example of Art Deco architecture, constructed between 1929 and 1931.

 

Contemporary Arts Center (44 E. 6th St.): One of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States, the CAC is a non-collecting museum that was founded in 1939. It has been the site of a number of groundbreaking exhibitions including the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that resulted in the controversial art and obscenity trial against the museum director in 1990.

 

Fountain Square & Winterhaus (520 Vine St.): The symbolic center of Cincinnati since 1871, Fountain Square is the home of a stunning Genius of Water fountain commissioned by Henry Probasco. Through March 20th visit Winterhaus, a glass-enclosed bar with live music.

 

The Mercantile Library (414 Walnut St): Located on the top two floors of the Mercantile Library Building at 414 Walnut St., the Mercantile Library (founded in 1835) is the oldest membership library west of the Alleghenies. Visitors are welcome.

 

National Underground Railroad Museum and Freedom Center (50 East Freedom Way): Since 2004 The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is “the preeminent cultural learning center for inclusive freedom — locally, nationally and globally.” Site of the C19 Opening Reception 

 

Isaac M. Wise Temple, formerly Plum Street Temple (720 Plum Street): Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue constructed during the Civil War in the style of the Alhambra in Granada.

 

John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge: Completed in 1867, the Roebling Suspension Bridge was, at the time, the longest suspension bridge in the world. The bridge connects downtown Cincinnati (in front of the Freedom Center) to the city of Covington in Kentucky and has a pedestrian walkway with great views of the city.

 

Taft Museum of Art (316 Pike St.): Art collection displayed in a unique historical home setting, with changing exhibitions, and world-famous murals by African American artist Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872). Their current rotating installation is “Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White.”

 

21c Museum Hotel Cincinnati (609 Walnut St.): Hotel with contemporary art museum featuring curated exhibitions and permanent installations. On view through August 2026: “Fragile Figures: Beings and Time.”

 

Over-the-Rhine (take the Connector)

 

Brewing Heritage Trail & Tours (Findlay Market: Download the app or book a tour featuring a visit to a 19th Century Underground Lagering Cellar. Learn more at brewingheritagetrail.org

 

Findlay Market (1801 Race St.): Ohio's oldest continuously operated public market, Findlay Market is home to more than 50 full-time merchants selling meat, fish, poultry, produce, flowers, cheese, deli, ethnic foods, and a Saturday farmers market. 

 

Cincinnati Music Hall (1241 Elm St.): Classical music performance hall in Victorian-gothic architecture completed in 1878.

 

Underground Tour: Walking tours of OTR. Learn more at www.americanlegacytours.com/ultimate-underground

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Farther afield, but still in the city

 

Cincinnati Art Museum (953 Eden Park Dr.): Built in 1886, CAM is one of the oldest arts institutions in the United States, with a rich collection of more than 73,000 works of art, celebrating 6,000 years of human creativity. On view now: “Longing: Painting from the Pahari Kingdoms of the Northwest Himalayas.” Free parking and free general admission. Visit the nearby Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park.

 

Cincinnati Museum Center in Union Terminal (1301 Western Ave.): Located in historic art deco Union Terminal (built in 1933), CMC includes the Cincinnati History Museum, the Cincinnati History Library and Archives, the Duke Energy Children's Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science and the Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater.

 

Harriet Beecher Stowe House (2950 Gilbert Ave.): Home to Reverend Lyman Beecher and his large family, a prolific group of religious leaders, educators, writers, and antislavery and women's rights advocates. Stowe herself lived in the house for short periods of time throughout the 1830s.

 

Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum (4521 Spring Grove Ave.): Dating to 1844, Spring Grove Cemetery is 733 acres, the third largest cemetery in the United States, and one of five cemeteries designated National Historic Landmarks for their landscape design. Walking trails, notable graves, and numerous examples of Gothic Revival architecture.

 

William Howard Taft National Historic Site (2038 Auburn Ave.): Atop one of Cincinnati's most prominent hilltops stands the two-story Greek Revival house where William Howard Taft was born and grew up. 

 

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (3400 Vine St.)

 

Outside Cincy

 

Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption (Covington, KY): Designed by the Detroit architect Leon Coquard, the basilica is architecturally inspired by the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris with an interior modeled after St. Denis. The cathedral holds murals by Frank Duveneck and is famous for what is said to be the world's largest handmade church stained glass window.

 

The Golden Lamb Restaurant & Hotel (Lebanon, OH): Open since 1803, The Golden Lamb is the oldest hotel in Ohio and has been visited by 12 American presidents, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dickens, and Clement Vallandigham (who infamously shot and killed himself accidentally in his hotel room here).

 

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks (Chillicothe, OH): Gigantic earthen enclosures built by American Indians 2,000 years ago, the Hopewell Earthworks were places of ceremony connected to the cosmos by alignments to key risings and settings of the moon and sun. 

 

John Rankin House (Ripley, OH): Closed during the winter months, but worth knowing about. Built in 1825 on a hill overlooking the Ohio River, the Rankin House was home to abolitionist and Presbyterian minister John Rankin who ran one of the best-documented and most active Underground Railroad “stations” in Ohio. Visit the rivertown of Ripley and see the John P. Parker House, home of an African American inventor and active conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds make their way to freedom. Learn about some of the histories that inspired major episodes in Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

 

McGuffey House and Museum (Miami University, Oxford, OH): A National Historic Landmark, the McGuffey House and Museum collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits materials relating to the life of William Holmes McGuffey, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader series, the history of Miami University, and 19th-century domestic life and architecture of southwest Ohio.

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