Dock’s Beach House

Walleye, perch, and yellow bass define northwestern Ohio’s freshwater fishing scene, and Jolly Rogers serves it with the same direct, honest style the Walleye Capital demands.

The oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes stands visible from this shoreline, and Beach Glass Lounge has been drawing summer visitors to Marblehead’s underappreciated peninsula since the Victorian era.

The major tourist circuits mostly overlook this stretch of Marblehead shoreline, which is exactly the reward for anyone willing to explore past the Put-in-Bay ferry line.

Put-in-Bay built its entire identity on being the Key West of the North, and this tiki bar leans into that bit with genuine enthusiasm and mostly, honestly, pulls it off.

One of the longest bars in the world sits at the actual social epicenter of Put-in-Bay, cold pitchers and live music from Memorial Day to Labor Day that has been pulling Ohioans across the ferry line for decades.