Sweeping Vistas of farmlands dotted with forests line the road. There are many historic farmsteads with great barns, open fields and livestock. Visiting a farmer's roadside stand loaded with fresh produce, watching young foals scamper across pastures in the spring, spotting deer coming out of the woods at dusk and seeing a Kestrel or Red-tailed Hawk hovering overhead provide visitors a rare opportunity to see life a different way, a slower way.

The sites of New Boston, a pioneer town, and its cemetery are located near the George Rogers Clark Historic Park. This includes the 1850's Daniel Hertzler House Museum that is on the National Register of Historic Places.

From its beginning near the the Ohio Masonic Home at US Route 40 in Springfield to Interstate 70 11 miles to the west, wanderers can experience the calming countryside at a slower pace. The mighty Mad River follows the Pike on one side, and limestone cliffs provide scenic views on much of the other.

Further on, one passes through the quaint town of Medway, which appears much as it has since the end of World War II and provides the traveler with an opportunity to stop and rest. Townspeople enjoy telling visitors about their part in Clark County history and how settlers were drawn to the region by the fertile lowlands soils in the early 19th century.

The Wetlands around the Medway area has been a prominent feature in the lives of those living there and The Globe Republic reported in 1887, "As for music, they have nightly concerts that are free. The melodious voices of the thousands of frogs in the adjacent ponds is melody in the ears of the citizens of Medway. With such prospects and such surroundings, they seem to be content . . ."

Local residents are still content to know that area wetlands are filtering pollutants and recharging the aquifer. They are also pleased to enjoy recreational opportunities such as fishing and canoeing in the Mad River, baseball at the Snider-Valley Complex, the Estel Wenrick Wetlands Park, with its many varieties of flowers and wildlife and the almost commonplace prairie flower that can be seen along Lower Valley Pike.

The earliest reminders of the area can be seen at the southwest end of the Pike with the brick church and cemetery that contain the markers of some of Clark County's earliest settlers. A few of the "modern homes" are log cabins and barns in disguise, still affording comfort and warmth to their residents