Music bands, hair bands, families, people watching, and ice cream. Port Clinton Square is a plaza area where the community gathers in Downtown Highland Park. With Dairy Queen onsite, it's the perfect place to enjoy a summer evening with your favorite Blizzard or twist cone.
Port Clinton is an outdoor shopping center where you'll discover a few specialty shops. The plaza area hosts annual events, including the holiday tree lighting extravaganza, Fourth of July festivities, and the Port Clinton Art Festival. Certain Friday nights you can listen to musicians compete in Battle of the Bands, and they've also been known to show outdoor movies.
For anyone moving to the area, I highly recommend coming to the plaza for a glimpse of the community. There's plenty of bench seating and tables, and I promise you an interesting mix of citizens for spectacular people watching.
Two of my favorite things: 1) A giant engraved map of Highland Park where you can find the street where you live; 2) the smell of bacon wafting through the air from the adjacent Walker Bros Pancake restaurant.
Plenty of free street parking and an underground garage. read more