Lifestyle
Whether your passion is boating and water sports, exploring fine museums, attending Broadway shows, shopping in exclusive boutiques, or supporting the arts—Lucas County delivers. Metropolitan Toledo provides opportunities to enjoy performances in wonderful venues that host the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, the Art Tatum Jazz Society, the Toledo Opera, the Toledo Ballet, and the Toledo Repertoire Theatre as well as Broadway shows and star-studded entertainment. Throughout the county, community-based visual and performance arts groups provide venues for emerging talent and promote cultural appreciation. The Toledo Museum of Art draws international visitors to quality collections and innovative programming, particularly the stunning Glass Pavilion with a globally recognized “see through” design and 5,000-piece collection. The Toledo Zoo is rated among the finest in the nation, with 5,300 animals from 760 species in exciting displays from the Arctic tundra to a tropical rainforest. The Imagination Station in downtown Toledo inspires children with the wonders of science and technology through hand-on displays. Other family attractions include the 60-acre Toledo Botanical Gardens with special exhibits and activities for children and the Butterfly House in the community of Whitehouse.

 
Sports enthusiasts will find abundant reasons to support their favorite collegiate or professional teams including the Toledo Mud Hens baseball and the Toledo Walleye hockey at the dazzling new Huntington Center. One of the county’s newest attractions, this $105 million venue provides an 8,000-seat arena for professional sports events and national headliners. The city of Sylvania adds several other distinctive venues, including one of the nation’s largest outdoor ballroom dance floors at Centennial Terrace. Lourdes University hosts world-class performing arts in the beautiful Franciscan Center and invites the public to enjoy 3-D and other viewing experiences at Appold Planetarium. Even some of the historic sites in Lucas County are entertaining, like mule-drawn canal boat rides in Providence Metropark where living history characters tell stories about life in the 1800s. The Toledo Firefighters Museum is located in the Old Number 18 Fire House built in 1920, while the village of Grand Rapids features the Seven Eagles Historical Education Center filled with recreated artifacts from the area’s pioneering history. Outdoor adventures are abundant in the vast Toledo Metroparks system, city and community parks, sports and recreation centers, fitness facilities, Lake Erie watersports, and miles of multi-purpose trails and paths. Farmers markets, wonderful libraries, active neighborhoods, and a calendar filled with local and special events bring Lucas County residents together and preserve the friendliness of small-town living. Nationally celebrated Great Lakes attractions like Cedar Point Amusement Point Park, Put-in-Bay, and Lake Erie islands are just minutes from home. Regardless of the vision you may have for your new home, Lucas County has the right ingredients to move that dream into reality.