Visiting Ohio for the summer? One of the most ideal places to go during this time is the beautiful Shawnee State Park. This favorite Ohio attraction is a 6 hour drive from the River Inn Hotel and it is definitely worth the wait. Spend a day or two in Portsmouth speaking with the locals and [...]

You may recall our list of Top 5 Portsmouth, Ohio Restaurants from last year. Since then, we’ve found a new local favorite that serves the best Italian food in town!
Melini Cucina is a family friendly Italian restaurant in the heart of Portsmouth. A small and intimate place, the line ups for Melini can go out [...]

If you’re visiting Portsmouth, Ohio in April, you won’t want to miss the world class pianist, Mariangela Vacatello. Born in Naples, Italy, Mariangela has been playing the piano since the young age of four. She has studied music in both Italy and London, and over the years she has won countless prestigious awards.
She has toured [...]

For the best entertainment in Portsmouth, Ohio, you need to watch show at the Verne Riffe Centre for the Artshttp://www.ohiorivertourism.org/vrcfta.html (VRCA). Located within the beautiful Shawnee State University campus, VRCA is also the home of the Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association. The River Inn Hotel is only a scenic three minute walk to the university [...]

The Southern Ohio Performing Arts Association (SOPAA) is a non-profit organization that makes the arts not only exciting and vibrant, but affordable and accessible to everyone, no matter what your taste in entertainment is.
The association was started in the 1950s with four annual concerts and as over the years, SOPAA progressed to bring Scioto County [...]

The Clark Planetarium is an exciting place where science meets imagination. Located in the Advanced Technology Center of Shawnee State University, the Planetarium is a 66 seat room with a large projection dome overhead. The Planetarium is home to the only computer graphics planetarium projection system in the world- the Konica Minolta Mediaglobe I/II hybrid [...]

Whether you’re travelling to Portsmouth for the first time or you’re looking for some new places to titillate your culinary taste buds, Portsmouth offers a great variety of restaurants to dine at. In no particular order, here are 5 places that the River Inn staff can’t stop raving about:

1.       Scioto Ribber
1024 Gallia St., Portsmouth, OH
(740) [...]

Portsmouth? Portsmouth?… isn’t that a city in the United Kingdom?
Yes it is. As many cities in United States are named after cities in the UK, such as Manchester, London, Glasgow and Portsmouth of course, people can be confused when you say you have been to Portsmouth Ohio.
So to clear up any confusion, let me tell [...]