Newark, Ohio - World's Largest Basket
Field Report by the Roadsideamerica.com Team
- Address:
- 1500 East Main St., Newark, OH [Show Map]
- Directions:
- On the south side of Hwy 16, east of town. Exit at either Dayton Rd (from the west) or E. Main St. (from the east) and proceed along E. Main St. to the basket.
- Admission:
- Free.
- Hours:
- Daylight, and illuminated at light. (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 740-322-5588
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Newark, Ohio - World's Largest BasketNo matter how menial your daily labors or how incompetent your boss, work can't be all bad if you're employed in a seven-story-tall basket. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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Newark, Ohio - Giant Basket The Longaberger basket company headquarters is housed in a BIIIIIIGGGGG basket. It is so enormous, it is almost scary.
When first built, a local pilot flew his small Cessna type plane through the handle of it. I believe he got in a bit of trouble but I would have loved to have seen it. [RPD, 06/24/2008]
Newark, Ohio - World's Largest Basket This is the Longaberger Basket Headquarters in Newark, Ohio. [Amey Kelly, 12/19/1999]
Newark, Ohio - World's Largest Basket Longaberger basket company, the ones who built the world's largest basket in Dresden, have gone a big step further. Their new 7-story headquarters just east of Newark OH on Rt. 16 is in the shape of a basket, complete with huge metal handles. I passed it Saturday, May 30. [Cary Dice, 06/11/1998]
On the left side of Route 16, out of Newark, east, is the factory, with shuttle buses and guided tours of the factory.
It all started in Dresden, Ohio on Route 60 south.( Route 60 turns right off of Route 16 a few miles east down the road from the factory.) The town has quaint little shops and restaurants and the largest _real_ basket in the world on display there. [Wendra, 05/01/1998]
Nearby Offbeat Places
- World's Largest Apple Basket, Frazeysburg, OH - 15 mi.
- House-sized Picnic Basket, Dresden, OH - 18 mi.
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- Globe in Hands Headstone, New Albany, OH - 25 mi.
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