A partnership between the Dayton Aviation Heritage Commission and the Rubicon Park Master Plan Committee will run a trolley tour of Rubicon Park and other Dayton historic sites, providing an educational view of the city's past. The free tours will run Saturday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 15, from noon to 5 p.m. The loop tour begins at Carillon Historical Park, followed by stops at the Immaculate Conception Chapel at the University of Dayton, Woodland Cemetery, Dayton's Fifth Third Field, Wright Dunbar Village and the Paul Laurence Dunbar House. The non-stop tour will be narrated by National Park rangers.
Riders can board the trolley at any point and continue on to the next stop.
The tour continues in a one-way circuit. The tour takes an estimated one hour without stopping for tours and three hours if you tour all locations. Tourists can catch a glimpse of a model of an early edition Wright brothers plane at Carillon Park. Woodland Cemetery is also hosting its Discover Dayton Day Oct. 14. Actors will be dressed in period costume and performing as the Wright brothers and reading from the works of Paul Laurence Dunbar.