The Full Cleveland is an urban exploration at a walking pace for an entire day, Saturday April 20th from 8am to 8pm. You can jump in or jump out anywhere along the way. We’ll begin and end in the same place, Dewey’s Coffee Shop in Shaker Square. We’ll be visiting some of the most iconic areas in the region, with special presentations at Larchmere Fire Works, a glass blowing and metalsmithing training facility, and another presentation at The Sculpture Center on Euclid. This will be our 10th outing, we’ve been doing them in spring and fall for 5 years. This one should be just as fantastic as the rest, and they’ve all been incredible! Itinerary is being developed, but post on this and I’ll reach out to you with more information. Short version of the itinerary is this: Dewey’s Coffee House 13201 Shaker Square 8:00am (Parking available behind CVS Pharmacy) Shaker neighborhood tour 8:30-9:30 Larchmere Fire Works 10:00am Lunch Uptown, various locations 12:00 Dittrick Museum Of Medical History, Case-Western Reserve Campus 1:30pm The Sculpture Center 2:30 (1834 E 123rd Street) Wade Chapel or James Garfield Memorial, Lakeview Cemetery, 3:15 pm $5 Little Italy 5:00 Rockefeller Park 6:00 Felice Urban Cafe 7:00 Dewey’s Coffee Shop 8:00 And we’re done!!!
This has been a fantastic experience each time we’ve done it. We’ve found wonderful shops, like the Old Brooklyn Cheese Shop, which offers cave-aged cheeses, and cheeses that come from 8 specially fed cows! We found a Nepali market hidden across the street from a giant suburban style market. And dozens of other very unique spots.
I hope we get some Google folks on this one, we’ve been managing it on Facebook and now have about 60 people attending over the course of the day.
Hi, this is my first time on local guides connect, so I’m not familiar with meet ups. To get to each spot on tour, is it walking only, a combo of walking/driving, or public transportation? Sorry if the question seems odd, just trying to get a better understanding. Thanks
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The tenth Full Cleveland was another great success. We had four major stops on it if we include Larchmere FireWorks as two stops – One metalsmithing presentation in the morning and a glassblowing presentation in the evening. Our other majors were the David E. Davis Sculpture Foundation/Artist Archives of the Western Reserve and the Dittrick Museum of Medical History.
We had an excellent lunch at the Tavern of Little Italy, a solid beer at Simply Greek, a spot of tea at Algebra Tea House, and ended the day at felice Bistro, which I now count as one of the best restaurants in Cleveland. And I can’t forget fueling up our coffee reserves at Dewey’s Coffee House in Shaker Square and ice cream at Mitchell’s Ice Cream, pastries at 3 Aprons. We did a little shopping at Fiddlehead Gallery and Jati and Loganberry Books and North Union Farmers Market. We scaled a mountainous stretch at Ambler Park and for those who couldn’t do the climb, we took an elevator up the cliff at Judson Park Senior Living.
We had about 38 participants overall, which was an excellent turnout since the weather in the morning was a bit chilly and rainy. @Kendall another Local Guide joined us, and she has a great set of recaps as well.
This was the first event where we’ve ever split into two groups. With such a large turnout, we’ve realized that our little stops can be overwhelming to some of the small shops we stop at.
I’ve included a few of my own pictures, but I’ve seen some excellent pics from others and you can find many of those on
A 12 hour urban exploration might sound intimidating at first. If you think about your favorite vacation days, you might remember leaving your place in the morning, spending the day exploring, coming back exhausted yet refreshed. That is what we do, just intentionally, and in our own city.
Our next walk will be on Saturday, October 19th. It will probably be based around the newly opened Towpath Trail that is a greenway that now connects a huge swath of Cleveland.
