A calm and convenient place to live
The City of Twinsburg offers a calm but accessible life between greater Cleveland and Akron. With accessible shops and restaurants surrounding the park downtown, houses and schools remain in a peaceful environment surrounded by forests and fields that fan out from the center. While the city may hold big celebrations such as the Twins Day Festival, the average day-to-day is calm with access to a variety of greenspaces. "The housing is good here, but what gets a lot of people to move in are the big parks," says Jeremy Fennell, a Realtor with Keller Williams and a born Twinsburg local.
Houses are close to parks and covered in tree shade
Most of Twinsburg's houses are on the north side, but a few reside south of downtown along residential streets and sub-communities. "We've got what we call new Twinsburg with all the newer houses built in the last few decades mixed with some older properties, and on the other side, we have houses built in the 60s and 70s with these acre-sized lots," says Fennell. In the north, a ranch house can cost between $170,000 and $250,000, while Colonial Revivals sell for between $260,000 and $450,000. A home built within the last few years will cost between $500,000 and $700,000. All these homes sit along streets weaving through forested and open local parks with a tree or two to shade them and a couple dozen feet between each house. In the south, the Twinsburg Heights community has homes consisting mainly of single-wide manufactured houses and colonial revivals that cost between $130,000 and $260,000. Other southern houses, such as those on Ravenna Road, are mostly ranch houses on multi-acre yards that cost between $130,000 and $400,000.
Twinsburg High School has an esports club
The city offers a high-rated education circuit with multiple schools northwest of downtown. Elementary education begins at Wilcox Primary, serving kindergarten through first grade, continues at Samuel Bissell Elementary for second and third grade, and concludes at George G. Dodge Intermediate for fourth, fifth and sixth grade. Niche grades Wilcox A-minus and Bissel and Dodge A. Students then move on to RB Chamberlin Middle School, which earns an A-minus. Twinsburg High School is the last step and offers an Esports Club for competitive gaming. Niche gives the school an A.
Liberty Park is several thousand acres big
Twinsburg's nine parks provide places for activities and events less than a mile from most homes. The Gleneagles Golf Course is one of the city's most popular attractions. In 2024, NBC's Golf Pass rated the course No. 15 in Ohio. The course has 18 holes and a pro shop selling clothes and equipment. Center Valley Park and Liberty Park are the biggest, with 410 acres and 3,000 acres in the northwest and northeast parts of the city. Liberty Park's Pond Brook Conservation Area has hiking trails cutting through the deep woods while Center Valley has athletic spaces and playgrounds in Glen Meadow Park. Another stand out is the Twinsburg Water Park, a public pool with a water slide next to RB Chamberlin Middle School. The area is also the headquarters for the Twinsburg Parks and Recreation Department and has a bridge to the Glen Chamberlain Park outdoor concert hall.
Township Square is surrounded by shops and restaurants
The city's major roads connect around a 3-acre greenspace in the downtown area called the Twinsburg Township Square. A mixture of chain and local restaurants and shops surround it to form a shopping district. These places include Fresh Start Diner and Strawberry Moon Boutique, with chains such as Walgreens and Starbucks right across the square. Fresh Start Diner has a red and white checkered floor with tables and lunch counter seating. Decorations include kids' drawings, framed photography and some artwork from before it opened. "We have this big mural on the wall that's been there long before we moved in," says owner Dan Wyman. "We made sure to keep it to preserve that old diner feel." The mural in question depicts frontier America through multiple separate scenes. Strawberry Moon Boutique is a local women's fashion outlet selling name-brand attire, accessories, and home decorations. The local Giant Eagle grocery store is just south of the Starbucks. The nearest mall is Beechwood Place, a 17-mile drive north through Interstate 480. Hudson Farmers' Market is a much shorter 5-mile drive along Darrow Road and is open every Saturday from June until October.
The Twins Day Festival gets thousands of attendees
Twinsburg's biggest annual event is the Twins Day Festival in August. First held in 1976 as a play on the city's name, the festival has grown so large that thousands come from across the world to attend. "The whole thing is huge," says Fennell. "It's easily the biggest event. I mean, it's known all over the world." In 2023's festival, twins were encouraged to wear matching pirate costumes. Festivities included a parade, a talent show and a 5K. Twinsburg's outdoor concert hall, Glenn Chamberlin Park, offers smaller, more frequent events, such as the local summer concert series. "It's like our own hidden Blossom," says Sarah Ulisse, comparing the space to the Blossom Music Center in the Cuyahoga Valley. "There's a stage and concessions area, all surrounded by a forest. It's just on a smaller scale." Ulisse is the administrative assistant for the Twinsburg Parks and Recreation Department.
The four major streets all intersect at the town square
The city's main thoroughfares are East Aurora Road, Darrow Road, Ravenna Road and Cannon Road, which all intersect around Township Square. These roads lead to anywhere in the city, whether to the schools, the shopping district, or the ramps to Interstate 480 to Cleveland, 25 miles east. The Akron METRO Bus system's Route 32 also moves through the intersection, picking up passengers on East Aurora Road and Darrow Road along the way to Akron or Cleveland.
A chance of flooding by Tinker’s Creek
Tinker's Creek and its branches flow through most of the city's land and can flood during nasty weather. Local parks and commercial areas deal with most of the effects, but a few homes and streets near the parks and along the creek may have up to three feet of water.
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