One list, and one thing sorts it
Book one of the vacation packages you reserve by the night from Cincinnati
Distance does not sort this list, and price does not sort it either. A place far out can stand above one much closer, because the office weighs the road against the nights it reserves, not against the map.
Nothing is held here until the office has written back and you have said yes to what it wrote. No part of a stay is ever paid for through these pages.
Every entry below prints the hours of driving that one night of the stay has to carry. A short road over many nights sits at the top; a long road over two nights sits at the bottom, and the office says so before you reserve rather than after.
Hours and miles are measured along the road from Fountain Square, not drawn straight on a map, and they assume clear traffic. Your own run will differ with weather, roadworks and the hour you leave.
- the road barely weighs
- the road is a morning
- the road is most of a day
- the road is half the trip
The road barely weighs
Book a drive from Cincinnati where the road barely weighs
- Lexington, Kentucky1.62 hours of road over 3 nights, 0.54 an hour a nightfrom $585
- Serpent Mound, Ohio1.72 hours of road over 3 nights, 0.57 an hour a nightfrom $495
- Hocking Hills, Ohio3.15 hours of road over 5 nights, 0.63 an hour a nightfrom $950
- Louisville, Kentucky1.92 hours of road over 3 nights, 0.64 an hour a nightfrom $615
- Red River Gorge, Kentucky2.71 hours of road over 4 nights, 0.68 an hour a nightfrom $720
- Hoosier National Forest, Indiana3.42 hours of road over 5 nights, 0.68 an hour a nightfrom $825
- Cave Run Lake, Kentucky2.96 hours of road over 4 nights, 0.74 an hour a nightfrom $680
- Columbus, Ohio2.24 hours of road over 3 nights, 0.75 an hour a nightfrom $555
The road is a morning
Book a drive from Cincinnati where the road is a morning
- Indianapolis, Indiana2.10 hours of road over 2 nights, 1.05 an hour a nightfrom $420
- Big South Fork, Tennessee4.29 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.07 an hour a nightfrom $740
- Wayne National Forest, Ohio3.27 hours of road over 3 nights, 1.09 an hour a nightfrom $510
- Great Smoky Mountains, Tennessee5.72 hours of road over 5 nights, 1.14 an hour a nightfrom $1,075
- Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina7.32 hours of road over 6 nights, 1.22 an hour a nightfrom $1,290
- Mammoth Cave, Kentucky3.71 hours of road over 3 nights, 1.24 an hour a nightfrom $600
- Natchez Trace, Tennessee6.37 hours of road over 5 nights, 1.27 an hour a nightfrom $975
- Nashville, Tennessee5.08 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.27 an hour a nightfrom $960
- Cumberland Gap, Tennessee4.03 hours of road over 3 nights, 1.34 an hour a nightfrom $540
The road is most of a day
Book a drive from Cincinnati where the road is most of a day
- Asheville, North Carolina6.86 hours of road over 5 nights, 1.37 an hour a nightfrom $1,150
- New River Gorge, West Virginia5.53 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.38 an hour a nightfrom $820
- Sleeping Bear Dunes, Michigan9.85 hours of road over 7 nights, 1.41 an hour a nightfrom $1,645
- Chicago lakefront, Illinois5.66 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.42 an hour a nightfrom $1,120
- Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky5.69 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.42 an hour a nightfrom $720
- Shawnee National Forest, Illinois5.99 hours of road over 4 nights, 1.50 an hour a nightfrom $680
- Shenandoah, Virginia9.40 hours of road over 6 nights, 1.57 an hour a nightfrom $1,350
- Allegheny National Forest, Pennsylvania7.89 hours of road over 5 nights, 1.58 an hour a nightfrom $950
- Dolly Sods, West Virginia8.17 hours of road over 5 nights, 1.63 an hour a nightfrom $925
- Indiana Dunes, Indiana5.14 hours of road over 3 nights, 1.71 an hour a nightfrom $585
- Charleston, West Virginia4.09 hours of road over 2 nights, 2.04 an hour a nightfrom $380
- St Louis, Missouri6.54 hours of road over 3 nights, 2.18 an hour a nightfrom $705
The road is half the trip
Book a drive from Cincinnati where the road is half the trip
- Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio4.61 hours of road over 2 nights, 2.31 an hour a nightfrom $430
- Cleveland, Ohio4.87 hours of road over 2 nights, 2.44 an hour a nightfrom $460
- Detroit riverfront, Michigan5.00 hours of road over 2 nights, 2.50 an hour a nightfrom $450
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania5.74 hours of road over 2 nights, 2.87 an hour a nightfrom $480
Start with the number of nights
Tell the office how many nights you have. Everything else follows from that number, including whether the drive is worth making at all.