Carillon Historical Park

🛩️🖨️ and a lot more history.

Volunteers/ workers here are passionate about local history.

Large space with different buildings and facilities 🚻

I would recommend to allocate 3-4 hrs to see it all.

Entry price 💲 was a little higher than what I think would be fair.

It was a lovely afternoon. Half our party had packed lunches and the others had planned to get food at the cafe. Because of the unexpected business there was a long wait for food and they allowed us to eat our food in the train car with the other half of our party. Of.course the kids got milkshakes. The grounds are nice and the Wright Museum is very interesting and educational.

I had a lot of fun exploring the park and museums. It took about 2.5 hours to get through about half of the park. There's more buildings than I could fit in a single trip. Not sure if there's enough left to warrant a second trip but I'd recommend visiting once if you're in the area.

A great experience overall with a lot of incredible history. I love that the goal is to build up Dayton and all the incredible people who played a part in its history.
Admittedly I did come with a school so things are probably ran a little different when there are busloads of students coming at once.

Employees are a little intense about who qualifies for train rides and carousel rides. Why not just include it in admission prices?
I understand you need to make money but also the kids already paid to get in, is that dollar really making that big of a difference if the train is already running and so is the carousel?

Came here in august and loved every minute of it. I was sad that a few of the exhibits were closed, but there was still a lot to see. We spent a good amount of time with the trains and the Wright brothers exhibit. The couple's that gave us the tours were all so sweet too. This wasn't on our list when we came to visit Dayton, but I'm so glad we did stop by. Highly reccomend.