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Sayler Park, Cincinnati — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Barges work the channel below Gracely Drive in Sayler Park, the westernmost neighborhood of Cincinnati and a river village of its own until 1911.
About Sayler Park
Where to stay in Sayler Park
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Sayler Park carries no lodging of its own. The room is booked elsewhere and driven in, and River Road, which is U.S. Route 50 along this stretch, runs the length of the neighborhood as the way in and out.
Downtown Cincinnati lies about ten miles upstream and holds the deepest supply of rooms. A second cluster sits across the Ohio River, in Boone County, Kentucky, near the airport. Come for a morning instead.
Take a room in one of those two clusters and drive out early if Fernbank Park and the mounds are what you came for.
About Sayler Park
What are the main landmarks in Sayler Park?
Sayler Park keeps its landmarks along Gracely Drive and the bank below it. Thornton Triangle is the smallest park Cincinnati owns, a wedge at Thornton Avenue holding the J. Fitzhugh Thornton Memorial, a zinc figure known locally as Tecumseh, put up by Eliza Thornton in her husband's memory. St. Aloysius on the Ohio has stood on Portage Street since 1888.
Fernbank Park runs more than a mile of Ohio River frontage at the western end. Two Adena mounds survive. The Story Mound was never excavated, and the Short Woods Park Mound sits inland on the northern edge.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church, a Samuel Hannaford design, stands on Kirkwood Lane.
What is the history of Sayler Park?
Sayler Park was two villages before it was one neighborhood. The upstream settlement went by Home City, a name Home City Avenue still carries, while Fernbank downstream was platted by Charles W. Short in 1875. German Catholic families from Delhi Township raised a one-room schoolhouse here in 1868, and it grew into St. Aloysius on the Ohio, whose church, school, and rectory joined the National Register in 2014.
Both villages came into Cincinnati in 1911. That was the year the Army Corps of Engineers opened the Fernbank dam, officially Dam 37, after six years of work in the river below. An F5 tornado tore through on April 3, 1974.
Where is Sayler Park?
Sayler Park ends Cincinnati at the west: the Ohio River below it, Delhi Township inland, Addyston beyond, and Riverside its one neighbor inside the city.
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Updated September 2026