How to go
What: Chuck Wagon Dinner Rides
Where: Bonnybrook Country Farm, 3779 Ohio 132, Clarksville (Clinton County); 20 minutes east of Kings Island
When: 5 to 9 p.m. Saturdays through August
Cost: $35 adults; $23 kids 4 and older; age 3 and younger are free
More info: 937-289-2500 or Bonnie@BonnybrookFarms.com
Bonnybrook Farms has been in this region since 1967, providing farmland fun for “kids” of all ages. Unique outdoor activities keep everyone busy until the dinner bell rings at 6:30 p.m.
The business was located on 86 acres in Centerville until 2007, when it moved south for a large 370-acre spread just east of the Warren County line, in Clarksville, Clinton County.
“We’ve got a lot of farmland. It’s just a beautiful area with rolling hills, flat pastures, trees and woods. We like to say we have ‘room to run,’ ” said owner Bonnie Mercuri. “We have a three-acre pond stocked with bluegill, striped and largemouth bass, and catfish. You throw a line out, you will catch a fish.”
After visiting the horses, goats, sheep and donkeys in the barn, everyone can try their hand at the giant slingshot target and clodhopper golf. Activities include a horseshoe hill tunnel that has an 80-foot slide, horse tire swings.
“All of our activities are geared toward all ages. We had a seniors motorcoach group here last week,” said Mercuri. “They got a big kick out of the giant slingshots.”
The dinner bell rings at The Farm Kitchen Cafe in the gathering barn at 6:30 p.m. for hickory-smoked pork and chicken sandwiches, redskin potato salad, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs and farmhouse coleslaw. The wagon rides leave at 7:30 for a 20-minute scenic ride to the Chuck Wagon at Todd Fork Creek for homemade apple cobbler and roasting s’mores over the campfire.
“We don’t want this to be something that kids can do at a local park. We want this to stay like a farm,” said Mercuri.
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