Malabar Farm State Park preserves the farm and Big House of Louis Bromfield, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who turned this Pleasant Valley property into a working farm and conservation project. The house tour is the heart of the visit, but the wider park has trails, farm buildings, and views from Mt. Jeez.
Film fans come because Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall were married here in 1945. The better reason is the mix of literary history and Ohio countryside: it feels personal in a way many historic houses do not.