Disclosure: Perry’s Cave provided my family with complimentary combo passes in order to facilitate this review. All opinions are honest, my own, and may differ from yours.
Spending the day with your family on Put-in-Bay wouldn’t be complete without a trip to Perry’s Cave and Family Fun Center! Perry’s Family Fun Center consists of five attractions: Perry’s Cave, Butterfly House, War of 18 Holes Miniature Golf, Fort aMaze’n, and Rock Wall. There is also an Antique Car Museum which is absolutely free to visit!
Perry’s Cave in Put-in-Bay was such a fun place for us to visit. The above picture shows the rock climbing! We saw some people doing that as we were leaving. It does look like fun! You can mine for gemstones by purchasing geodes or gemstone bags in the gift shop.
Though we aren’t the best at mini golf, it sure is fun to play! The War of 18 Holes Miniature Golf at Perry’s Cave in Put-in-Bay is not too difficult of a course, so even your little ones will enjoy playing! Even though it is not too hard, I still did pretty badly! Oh well. Along the way you can learn historical facts about the War of 1812 and Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s role in the victory of the Battle of Lake Erie.
Be sure you get to Perry’s Cave when you are on Put-in-Bay! It is registered as an Ohio Natural Landmark and is a natural limestone cave with an interesting history. Commodore Oliver Perry and his men are said to have survived in the cave by drinking the fresh water. Prior, they had only had the lake water to drink.
There are stalactites and stalagmites in this cave, but don’t touch them! The oils in your hands will damage them. Be sure to wear rubber soled shoes because it is wet in the cave. There are places where we had to duck…especially my 6’5″ son!
The Butterfly House is such a cool place to visit. When my son was little we visited one and he was NOT happy with the butterflies all over him. He’s 17 now, so it’s all good 🙂 The butterflies are beautiful! There are 50 types of butterflies in the Butterfly House, and you can see all of them in this butterfly identification chart. My mom and I needed a little rest while the butterflies flitted about.
One of the butterflies decided to hitchhike on my son for about 5 minutes! Just be sure none of the butterflies hitchhike on you when you leave!
You can see the island’s oldest cars at the free Antique Car Museum! Be sure you read all of the information about the cars when you visit. The information there is really interesting!
Be sure you make the time to visit Perry’s Family Fun Center when you’re on Put-in-Bay!
Prices:
- Adult Combo (3 of 5 attractions) $19
- Child Combo ages 6-12 $11
- Adult Super $26
- Child Super Combo ages 6-12 $18
Individual attraction prices are also available online at Perry’s Cave’s website.
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What a great place to visit! Too bad we live far away. Still, I love looking at all of the pics of your family fun day! I love the butterfly pics. So cool!
It was so nice!
I’ve been there but it’s been a long, long time. I’d love to go back as an adult. I love your pictures!
Thank you! It was fun.
This looks like a fantastic way to spend the day! I’d love to hang out here with the family.
It was so much fun!
Wow, what an amazing place! A great place to bring the family for a day of fun. I think caves are fascinating – when we went on a cruise a few years ago we got to see one in the caribbean and was amazed at the beauty!
Caves really are so cool to see. I was a really fun trip.
That looks like SO MUCH FUN! I know for a fact that my boys would LOVE it there.
It is an it’s such a great deal with the combo tickets.
That looks like a lot of fun! My girls would love to visit! Thank you for sharing.
You’re welcome! It was fun!
I plan to add Perry’s case to my list of places to visit in Ohio. I am always looking for new ideas to take my teens places. Something that they won’t bulk at.
Yes, if you go to Put-in-Bay, you’ve got to go to Perry’s Cave!
That place looks so nice. Look how amazing those butterfly’s look.Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. We really had fun!
I’d definitely have to check out those caves. The butterfly house sounds great too! It’s great that there is so much to do there.
I want to go back to see what we missed too.
That’s a kind of attraction my husband and father-in-law would love to visit. We usually passed this area when I visited my in-laws hopefully I can squeeze on my schedule and plan our day trip there.
Yes, you need to fit it in sometime!
well they have just about everything there for the family! Looks like you were able to have a great family outing
It was a very fun trip!
Indeed a wonderful place to visit and spend time with the family. I would love to see the limestone caves and the Butterfly house!. Amazing pictures you got there!
It was fun and interesting at the same time.
Put in Bay sounds like an awesome place to visit indeed. I love the butterfly house and the caves are so beautiful. I would love to visit here some day. Thanks for sharing.
It was so cool seeing all of the beautiful sites.
What an exciting day for the whole family. There is so much to do there. I would love to bring my family there one day.
I hope you get to go!
This looks like a really fun place to visit. I would love to explore those caves and see all the pretty butterflies. Looks like there’s something for the entire family.
It definitely is very family friendly!
We recently visited Hershey Gardens and we went inside a butterfly house. One was so drawn to my husband. Lovely photos.
That sounds fun too!
This looks like a beautiful place to go with family and friends. I would love to visit the butterfly house and my boys would be thrilled with the antique car museum!
The cars were very cool!
This place looks really cool. I would absolutely adore the butterflies, they are my favorite. The Cave looks really cool and the kids would love the rock wall.
It’s so peaceful in the butterfly house.
I’ve always wanted to go into a cave or a cavern but I am clusterphobic so that’s not going to happen ever. LOL. It looks like you have loads of fun in Put In Bay.
No! They say if you’re claustrophobic don’t go in lol.
What a neat place! The rock climbing reminds me of the one in Zoo Atlanta that our son climbed. He reached the top in a heart beat and I will never ever forget it. He had a blast! 🙂
Wow! He is much braver than I am! My daughter’s college has the highest in Ohio! I wonder if she’ll be brave enough to try it lol.
This looks like so much fun. I love a good game of miniature golf. It’s been a while since we have played.
We are so bad at it lol. But that makes it even more fun!
Oh my, look at those butterflies! That would be my favorite part of going there.
They’re so beautiful!
My kids would love to go to a place like this. I love butterflies. I could spend the whole day looking at them.
It would be great to just sit and watch them all day!
How fun and exciting! I have never heard of Perry Cave, but I will have to check it out someday since I love cave tours.
It was very interesting!
Omg this place looks great!!!! Wish it was a tad bit closer becausei know my family would have a total blast there!
It really is fun!
This looks like a wonderful place to visit and it sounds like so much fun! It would be so neat to see those antique cars!
I definitely was a great time for us!
Oh how cool are those butterflies? This looks like a great place to spend the day.
They’re so pretty, aren’t they?
Looks like the perfect spot for a day out with the whole family! So much fun!
It really is!
Summer is a great time for taking new kinds of trips. I’ve never heard of this place but it seems like a fun place to go with your family!
Yes, it is great to have new experiences!