Columbia-Tusculum Neighborhood Overview

🧭Generally defined as the area: Bluffs above the East End from Torrence Parkway east to Beechmont Circle and Alms Park, bounded north by Columbia Parkway and the Mt Lookout ridge, and south by Riverside Drive and the Ohio River

📌Widely recognized as the place for: Cincinnati's oldest incorporated village, settled in 1788, and painted ladies in actual Victorian colors, not the pastel nonsense

👕You'll fit in if: you bring porch plants and kayaks for the Little Miami River that's right there

👍Locals live here because: Pastel houses, Alms sunsets, quick downtown if Columbia Parkway isn't a parking lot, which it usually is

👎Be prepared for: Columbia Parkway traffic that backs up at the slightest rain and brutal calf workouts because every street is a hill

✨The overall feel is: Painted porches, steep streets, sunsets and a neighborhood that time kind of forgot in the best way