Carillon Historical Park — Attraction in Dayton

Coming in, stop at the desk to purchase tickets or show membership card. I had told the lady working that we wanted to ride the train, she neglected to hear that I guess. There were a lot of people in line, many employees, but only one person taking care of incoming people. If you are going to have that many staff, offer relief for the one at the entry, she can't comprehend that people who say they want to ride the train... that she needed to sell them tickets.

Overall it's a good museum, the main museum building itself (except for one area that has steps) is fully wheelchair accessible. The women's restroom has one stall that will accommodate a wheelchair.

The buildings in the park mostly have at least one step into all of them. I don't see them adding ramps at any time, although they want to improve by adding a carousel outside.

The volunteer in the bicycle shop said the train was actually not operating due to track issues and cracking in the engine of the train, and wouldn't be for a few months. He said workers were over from England and it would take months to have it up and running. By the time we left that building, the train was filling full of people.

The train is accessible, but they turned away two families with wheelchair users and other disabled passengers, saying the train was full, yet there was the equivalent of one car of seats open.

They told us we would have to go inside to purchase tickets, again, a lot of staff around the park, but no one to open the ticket booth so a disabled person would not have to walk in and back out for a ticket, especially when we told the main entry person we wanted to ride the train.

They don't care, they don't treat disabled guests well at all. We would have thought about renewing the membership, but we even talked to the entry person about that, she didn't bother to answer any of our questions and didn't have the decency to sell us train tickets.

The restaurant is accessible, the food is low end food with high end prices, the service is...

We stopped here for a couple hours on the way back to Wisconsin from Dayton, and we were pleasantly surprised! The cash registers were very fascinating and a really cool look into the history of commerce in this country. Some of the museum inside felt a bit like capitalistic propaganda at times, but that's how these old products were sold in those times and it was fascinating nonetheless.

We also checked out the Wright museum and the old houses and school house as well as the train museum here. The tour of the Wright brothers' first few planes was really great. Seeing the reconstruction of the 1905 flyer was really awe inspiring. The amount of human ingenuity on display in this museum was palpable and really hit home as to the huge strides in technology we've been achieving over the last 200+ years.

The train museum was also really fun to see. Going inside the old trains and imagining how traveling worked back in those times was also really great to see.

For some reason, this museum made for a more impactful experience of human history than a lot of other museums out there. It's a museum of human progress and human genius instead of human setbacks and human tragedies. I really enjoyed it and the next time we're in Dayton with the kids, we'll for sure be going back and maybe take a train tour of the...

New to the Ohio area and live about 25 minutes South of here so we decided to come check it out. Really glad we did!

First the people working here are awesome. Helpful, kind and informative. We walked the entire area, road the big train and even jumped on the little train for a ride. Little train isn't always available to ride but apparently we came on the right day...throws you back to feeling like a kid for a few minutes!

The grounds are kept up well, the walk is easy and relaxing and the big train is a nice relaxing ride around the park. Sit is the right place near one of the staff and they'll fill you in on the history and anything else you would want to know about.

The park is full of history. I had no idea about the industrial impact Dayton had on the country at one time. Each stop at a new building is rich with information and there are plenty of cool things to look at.

Wright brothers Museum was just as good as the rest of the park. Much larger than expected and lots of details about the Wright brother and their first flights.

Overall it was neat to be thrown back in time and see where innovation has brought us. Even if you're not a big fan of history, it's worth the visit to check out some cool things on a relaxing walk...