Hotels in Columbus

Hotels in Columbus

Many tourists like to get a hotels in the Ohio City of Columbus. The city is a major city of the the state. It is the cpaital and a major economic and symbolic center for the state. Some may want to visit the city to see one of the sports sides, or tourist attractions or the culture or entertainment in the city.

Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware and Fairfield counties. Named for explorer Christopher Columbus, the city was founded in 1812 at the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers, and assumed the functions of state capital in 1816. So contrary to the popular view that Columbus was named after the city.

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The confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy rivers occurs just west of downtown Columbus. Several smaller tributaries course through the Columbus metro area, including Alum Creek, Big Walnut Creek, and Darby Creek. Columbus is considered to have relatively flat topography thanks to a large glacier that covered most of Ohio during the Wisconsin Ice Age. However, there are sizable differences in elevation through the area, with the high point of Franklin County being 1132ft above Sea level near New Albany, and the low point being 670ft where the Scioto River leaves the county near Lockbourne. Numerous ravine areas near the rivers and creeks also help give some variety to the landscape. Tributaries to Alum Creek and the Olentangy River cut through shale, while tributaries to the Scioto River cut through limestone. Deciduous trees are common, including maple, oak, hickory, walnut, poplar, cottonwood, and of course, buckeye.

The Columbus Metropolitan Area is the metropolitan area centered on the American city of Columbus, Ohio. Definitions of what is commonly referred to as the "Columbus Area" vary. The metropolitan area has included the counties of Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Morrow, Pickaway, and Union. The larger Combined Statistical Area (called the Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe Metropolitan Consoliated Area) adds the counties of Fayette, Knox, Marion, and Ross. It includes the Micropolitan Statistical Areas of Chillicothe, Marion, Mount Vernon, and Washington Court House, due to strong ties with Columbus. Numerous museums are located throughout the metropolis.

Some tourists may want to rent, sell, hire, buy, loan a hotel room in the city.

Although a majority of the sporting attractions take place in the city proper, there are a few better known events in the area. Since 1976, Dublin has been the site of the PGA Tour's Memorial Tournament at the Muirfield Village golf course, designed by Jack Nicklaus. In 1987, the course hosted the Ryder Cup and in 1998 it hosted the Solheim Cup.

Columbus Comets of the Women's Professional Football League and the Ohio Swarm of the Mid Continental Football League have played in the city. Columbushas been home to the Columbus Lady Shooting Stars soccer team, who have their home field in Delaware at Roy Rike Field. Columbus has been home to the Columbus Destroyers, an Arena Football Team.

In Columbus, the Columbus Blue Jackets have called downtown Nationwide Arena home. The MLS's Columbus Crew have played in Columbus Crew Stadium near the Ohio State Fairgrounds. The Columbus Clippers, have been a minor league baseball team.

Rahal Letterman Racing has had a home in Hilliard and raced in the Indy Racing League. Intersport Racing has been located in Dublin and raced in the American Le Mans Series.

The Columbus Museum of Art opened in 1931, and has had a collection focusing on European and American art up to early modernism. The Wexner Center for the Arts, a contemporary art gallery and research facility, has been located on the Campus of the Ohio State University. Also on campus has been the Ohio State University Athletics Hall of Fame, located in the Jerome Schottenstein Center (home of the OSU basketball and men's ice hockey teams), as well as the Jack Nicklaus museum.

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