Things To Do In Forestdale

At Curves, you'll move around a circuit of hydraulic resistance machines that have been designed to work with women's bodies and promote weight loss, protect against osteoporosis, and deal with arthritis. An experienced trainer is always nearby to help manage your machine maneuvering and your muscle making. Instead of fiddling with weight stacks and losing your momentum, the hydraulic machines use your body weight and fitness level to create resistance that matches your abilities, decreasing the risk of soreness or injury. Because traditional lift-and-lower motions create bulky muscles, each machine uses push-and-pull motions to create toned, lean muscles perfect for crushing a grapefruit without looking like you can.

The town of Brookside owns Five Mile Creek Canoe & Company, which works from a philosophy that nature is a splendor to be shared by all people. Five Mile not only grants access to a bonanza of camping and canoeing activities—such as bench pressing a canoe—it gives patrons the opportunity to control their own adventures. The campground presents enough activity opportunities to keep patrons busy throughout the day, including a playground, a 2-mile walking track, and a swimming hole.

When patrons want to set out on watery expeditions, they carry their own boats down to the creek and steer their vessels from beginning to end. After pushing past the shallow waters, canoes paddlers can traverse up to 26 miles of gently flowing creek lined on either side by a row of trees. These leaf havens obscure guests from the curious eyes of civilization, chipmunks, and Bigfoot's cousin, Steve. Before they hit the water, helpful staff members can give demonstrations to those with little paddling experience. They can also organize group floats for social paddlers.

The 2.38-mile winding track at Barber Motorsports Park plays home to the three exhilarating races set to zoom amid early spring greenery on this fully charged Sunday. Claim a perch on the hillside-grass seating or pump frenetic fists in the grandstand-seating area for the Star Mazda series as it whisks its four-wheeled velocity carts past your rapt self, then take in the revved up Firestone Indy Lights Race where vrooming vehicle masters take the helm of launched earthships. The IZOD IndyCar Series Race boasts gargantuan names in the whipfast world, including Danica Patrick, Helio Castroneves, Dario Franchitti, Will Power, and Peregrine "I Don't Need This Helmet But It's Regulation" Falcon. Acceleration aficionados can rest their own speed-hungry motors in the free parking lot at Birmingham Race Course on John Rogers Drive, with convenient track shuttles available. Otherwise, fleetness fans can opt to pay an additional, purchased-in-advance charge for on-site parking at the Barber Motorsports Park.

The Cleveland Women's show is an annual event designed for females of the feminine persuasion and packed with fashion, makeup demonstrations, gourmet edibles, and more. Your tickets grant you and a pal access to a multitude of events, including a bevy of show exhibiters, plenty of shopping, and a myriad of demonstrations and seminars. Meet E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic, or discretely follow other celebrity guests, such as Valerie Mayen of Project Runway, during one of the runway fashion shows on the Fashion stage. Swing by the Spotlight stage for home makeover tips and suggestions on how to cut grocery bills in half, or stop by the "Do It Herself" stage for hints on how to perk up walls with faux-painting techniques. Head over to the Cooking stage for quick and easy classes, such as Cooking Without Sugar and Wine and Food 101. The first 100 guests each day will also receive gift bags and extra swag, and over the weekend, you can sign up to win one of several prizes, such as a Balenciaga weekender bag, a professional landscape lighting installation, and a getaway to Panama City Beach, Florida.

PGA-certified golf guru Brian Speakman draws from more than a decade of teaching experience to diagnose deficient swings and put golfers on the path to straighter shots and lower scores. Brian augments his hard-won golf wisdom with V1 video analysis and K-Vest 3-D motion capture technologies, which help him scrutinize swing mechanics with the ethereal vision of an 18th-century Scotsmen who holds an advanced degree in astrophysics. The passionate pedagogue offers both indoor and outdoor lessons, helping golfers to shore up unsightly swings and counsel unstable nine-irons back to stable ground regardless of the weather.

The Experience

The Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum showcases vintage bikes from 20 countries, which fill the massive showroom at the Barber Motorsports Park, with technicians constantly working to keep each of the museum's 1,300 bikes authentically maintained and road-ready. Additionally, technicians ensure the overall gallery represents the evolution of the motorcycle through the 20th and 21st centuries.

The Highlights

• Collection contains 1,300 motorcycles, built between 1902 and the present
• Roughly half of the collection is kept on display
• More than 50 Lotus racecars
• Adjacent racetrack, Barber Motorsports Park, hosts test-drives and ride-alongs

  Who They Are

  George Barber first explored his love of racing in the 1960s, behind the wheel of a Porsche. By 1988, he had begun collecting and restoring classic and vintage sports cars, and his acquisitions soon spilled into motorcycles. His fleet eventually became the Barber Collection and the defacto garage for his own vintage-motorcycle racing team. Today, Barber's Collection has become a full non-profit motorsports museum that has shared its pieces at exhibitions at the Guggenheim in Spain, the Field Museum in Chicago, and the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England.