Jeffersonville is a small village of just 1.71 square miles in northwest Fayette County, Ohio.
The third U.S. president, Thomas Jefferson, inspired this village’s name.
Jeffersonville was platted in 1831, and its post office became operational in 1834.
Located in the heart of Southwestern Ohio, this village attracts visitors who prefer a destination with a quiet and unspoiled ambiance.
Once they have had their fill of the unhurried lifestyle of Jeffersonville, tourists can also visit other attractions in Lafayette County and Ohio.
Three major highways—Interstate 71, Ohio State 734, and State Route 41—intersect at Jeffersonville, making it a gateway to the state.
Let’s explore some of the best things to do in Jeffersonville and its neighboring destinations!
Choose a spacious lot or a cabin at the Walnut Lake Campground & Resort west of State Route 41.
The 20-acre Walnut Lake is the centerpiece of this facility, spanning 110 acres.
Creeks and rolling hills also characterize this campground as a habitat for precious wildlife.
It boasts sports facilities for basketball, volleyball, and corn hole, plus a swimming pool safe for small kids.
The campground was also developed with trails meandering within the property and access to golf carts.
Golf carts are available for rent at the campground, though these vehicles aren’t allowed on the wooded section of the trails.
Campers can enjoy fishing and swimming in Walnut Lake and join various events that the camp hosts.
The events in the camp include seasonal celebrations, bingo night with live music and wine, a golf cart rally, and lake fish-offs.
The R.V. sites in the campground are pet-friendly and provided with hook-ups and a bathhouse.
The cabins in the Walnut Lake campground are all well-furnished but don’t allow pets.
Located on South Main Street, Outside the Box Cafe/Restaurant is the place for the best home-style cooking in Jeffersonville.
The homemade treats from this restaurant include the iconic American apple pie.
Other choices for a delightful snack also include homemade pumpkin pie and chocolate pumpkin bread.
For breakfast, patrons of Outside the Box Café draw delights from its servings of pancakes and special latte.
They also watch this restaurant’s specials, including the eat-all-you-can hand-breaded perch on Friday nights.
A Sunday delight worth a trip comes with with baked steak with green beans, mashed potatoes, and gravy.
Let the good times roll and drop by the Village Pump on South Main Street, the heart of Jeffersonville.
One of the locals’ favorite hangouts, Village Pump, primarily offers pizzas and bar food.
Its patrons can also play pool, an excellent way for visitors to socialize and make friends with Jeffersonville residents.
Aside from pizzas with various topping choices, Village Pump’s menu includes Italian and steak hoagie subs.
Pool tournaments and D.J. music further enliven dining at Village Pump during the evening.
You can enjoy a dip at the Community Pool on Colonial Drive for a reasonable entry fee.
This town facility is spotless and well-maintained, offering a small pool for toddlers to enjoy.
The main swimming pool features two tunnel slides, and its deep end has a diving board.
The Jeffersonville Community Pool is open throughout the season, with lifeguards on duty.
This public facility also serves as a venue for the town’s special events, which feature many fun activities such as musical performances, face-painting, and tournaments for corn hole and kickball.
This park is on West High Street, with Sugar Creek bordering it to the east.
The vast open space of The Village of Jeffersonville Park vividly presents a countryside environment.
The park features several ball fields and a covered picnic shelter, combining to give the facility its family-friendly air.
Likewise, Jeffersonville Park is the home turf of the Jeffersonville Athletic Association.
This association organizes Little League baseball games for children ages 6-12.
Factory Shops Boulevard in Jeffersonville hosts Destination Outlets, billed as Ohio’s largest shopping mall for savings, food, and fun.
This mall features a wide variety of designer and brand-name stores, including Polo Ralph Lauren factory outlets, Under Armour, and Nike.
Fast food chains in Destination Outlets include McDonald’s, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Wendy’s.
Jeffersonville Destination Outlets also serves as a venue for special events in Jeffersonville, such as the village’s annual pumpkin pie eating contest held every October.
This Jeffersonville attraction is a pay-lake fishing destination on U.S. Highway 35, only a short distance west of Destination Outlets and just east of Rattlesnake Creek.
The Moor-Akers Pay Lakes abound with a range of fish varieties, including channel catfish, shovelhead, Bluecat, and large and smallmouth bass.
Action in the lake picks up during fishing tournaments with cash prizes at stake.
With lush woodlands flanking its two lakes, this fishing destination is family-friendly.
Moor-Akers Pay Lakes is also home to several roaming peacocks, which add to its charm.
It provides a bait shop and boasts a knowledgeable staff to guide its customers.
Root for your favorite sports team by wearing their merch, like its jersey or cap.
Most of these gear are available at Rally House Jeffersonville, located in Destination Outlets.
Some of the team merchandise sold at this specialty store include the Ohio Bobcats, Cleveland Guardians, and the Ohio State Buckeyes.
You can also find authentic paraphernalia of the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Cincinnati Bearcats.
Rally House Jeffersonville offers other items include apparel, gift ideas, and home décor.
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This park is located in the village of Mt. Sterling, Madison County, Ohio, about 26 minutes from Jeffersonville.
Deer Creek State Park spreads over 3,100 acres with a namesake lake/reservoir and a slew of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Visitors of this park can stay at its modern lodge with 110 guest rooms, many of which offer panoramic views of Deer Creek Lake.
The amenities in this lodge include a restaurant, lounge, indoor and outdoor pools, fitness center sauna, and whirlpool
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Overnight accommodations are also available in the 15 cottages of the resort lodge in this park.
Deer Creek State Park offers a campground with 232 sites, all with power supplies, showers, flush toilets, and other convenient facilities.
Recreational activities at this park include hiking, horse riding, swimming, boating, and fishing.
The park also has an 18-hole golf course, offering challenging play on its 350-acre layout with 52 sand traps and ten ponds.
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This boutique clothing shop offers a personalized shopping experience on a family farm on Hays Road NE in the village of Bloomingburg, Ohio, 11 miles from Jeffersonville.
Farm Wife Threads operates from a repurposed barn where the owners’ friendly family dog, Scout, welcomes all shoppers.
This shop specializes in women’s everyday clothing sizes S–3X, with graphic T-shirts, hoodies, denim pants, and shorts among the choices.
The shop’s shelves also feature accessories such as leather bracelets and hats, belts, bags, and purses.
Selections of men’s and children’s outfits are likewise available in Farm Wife Threads.
This is a private garden generously made accessible to the public and located off Old U.S. 35 in the village of Jamestown, Ohio, ten minutes from Jeffersonville.
Ashdowne in the English Garden Farm bloomed out of a former turf of wild grass covering 2.5-3 acres amid commercial soybeans, corn, and wheat farms.
This garden is now home to more than 500 different types of shrubs and trees, including 120 conifer varieties and more than 80 types of roses.
It also hosts a varied collection of almost 500 perennials, with 120 different types of hosta and over 50 kinds of daylilies.
Visit, walk around, enjoy the plants and the garden, and sit and unwind.
The immersive, inspiring ambiance of the garden makes it ideal for quiet walks.
Ashdowne in the English Garden Farm has become popular, particularly for photographers, artists, bird watchers, socio-civic clubs, and educators.
The city of Washington Court House, Ohio about 18 minutes from Jeffersonville, hosts the Fayette County Farmers’ Market.
It opens eery Saturday from May 14 to October 1, from morning to lunchtime.
This farmers’ market is at the city parking lot on the corner of South Main and East Streets.
Goods available in this market include the seasonal produce of local farmers.
Likewise, vendors in the Fayette County Farmers’ Market also offer home-baked cinnamon rolls, cookies, pies, cakes, honey, jams, salsas, and maple syrup.
Other shoppers’ delight in this market includes crocheted items, handmade jewelry, and woodcraft.
A Jeffersonville-based coffee maker, Rural Beans Roastery on East Walnut Street, is notably a regular vendor in this market.
The Fayette County Farmers’ Market has grown so popular that it often holds a satellite Wednesday market on Columbus Avenue in the afternoon.
This park is in Xenio, Ohio, 20 minutes from Jeffersonville.
Located on South Stringtown Road in Xenia, Caesar Ford Park boasts ten miles of meandering multi-purpose trails.
These pathways are accessible to horse riders, mountain bikers, and hikers.
They can extend their adventures to other local trails via the Xenia-Jamestown Connector that cuts through Caesar Ford Park.
This park also features a family-friendly and well-designed 18-hole championship disc golf course.
Other park facilities include a dining pavilion, an amphitheater, a gift shop, and restrooms.
Check out Caesar Ford Park for its vibrant Summerfest Concert Series.
Based on a private airport in the city of Xenia, this skydiving center is 23 minutes from Jeffersonville.
Skydive Greene County provides a large landing area and its covered hangar for parachute packing and rigging services.
Its professional staff and veteran instructors take good care of tandem skydivers, students, and experienced skydivers.
First-time skydivers here have to do a tandem jump with a professional instructor.
Afterward, they can take the static line course of Skydive Greene County.
This course would qualify you for static line jumps accompanied by a jump master and your parachutes opening automatically.
The skydive jumps are set at an altitude of 10,000–13,500 feet, with 40–60 seconds of free fall time and five to seven minutes under the parachute canopy.
Skydive Greene County uses two twin-turbine Westwind planes for its jumps, considered the country’s fastest jump planes.
Its main landing area covers more than five acres, with ten-acre secondary landing zones plus safe outs of hundreds of acres for missed airport landings.
During your trip to Jeffersonville, you can segue to this motorsports complex in Xenia, 31 minutes from Jeffersonville.
Billed as the premier motorsports facility in Ohio, Kil-Kare Raceway is off the Dayton Xenia Road in the city’s Xenia Township.
This raceway has held events since 1959 and provides two separate tracks.
One is the 3/8-mile Kil-Kare Speedway featuring an asphalt track oval designed for stock car racing.
The other is the Kil-Kare Dragway, a quarter-mile track for drag racing.
Racers from the Champion Racing Association vie for the top prizes in the various Kil-Kare Raceway events.
Jeffersonville offers an enjoyable stop during a visit to Fayette County, given the varied points of interest woven into its countryside setting.
The best things to do in Jeffersonville also pair well with exciting destinations in its adjacent cities and villages.
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