The Mansfield/Richland County Convention & Visitors Bureau launched a new Shawshank Trail website. The new website includes beautiful pictures, a comprehensive “frequently asked questions” page, videos and podcasts about the filming locations and soon a download link to a newly designed and reformatted Shawshank Trail guide. Movie aficionados, tourists or locals looking for an authentic movie experience should look no further than www.ShawshankTrail.com....
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Couple Got Engaged on The Shawshank Trail
On a visit to see my parents about 20 years ago, they had The Shawshank Redemption playing on their television. I hadn’t even heard of the movie. Forrest Gump was the big deal at the time. As I stood at my parent’s door watching this movie, never even sitting down, Shawshank Redemption became my favorite instantly. This movie had it all to me, the music, cast of characters, plot and great friendship, to me these things make the movie real. Little did I realize that I’d propose to my girlfriend as we traveled The Shawshank Trail in Mansfield, Ohio....
Shawshank Fan Shares Memories from Shawshank Reunion
Emily Pugh is a huge fan of the movie The Shawshank Redemption and traveled from Texas to experience last’s year’s Shawshank 20-Year Reunion in Mansfield, Ohio. She shared her memories from that visit and explained how it was one of her best weekends ever. Needless to say, she’s excited to come back this year for the Shawshank 20th Anniversary. See her story...
Mansfield, Ohio State Reformatory and Shawshank Trail in Wall Street Journal article
The Wall Street Journal published an article called, “Shawshank Residuals” about how the classic movie continues to hold it’s popularity and make money 20 years after its...
Shawshank Reunion a Big Hit
Shawshank fans descended upon Mansfield, Ashland and Upper Sandusky, Ohio for the 20-Year Reunion on August 30-September 1. The Reunion drew over 4,000 people from…...
Shawshank and NASCAR – That\’s what Mansfield Does!
NASCAR is returning to Ohio in 2013! With a NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series race at Eldora Speedway July 23-24 and a NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course August 16-17, the nation’s top motorsports league is back in Ohio for the first time in five years....
Shawshank 20th Reunion fun for fans, extras, and visitors
The 20-Year Shawshank Reunion celebrates the filming of the movie The Shawshank Redemption over Labor Day weekend. Calling all visitors, fans and movie extras! ...
Take a tour of some of the famous Ohio locations used in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’
Nearly twenty years ago Mansfield, OhioThe Shawshank Trail. You can also visit one of the movie’s other locations, the Mansfield Reformatory. ...
Shawshank Trail bench plaque replicates the one in movie
Volunteers sanded and painted a bench in Central Park in Mansfield Monday afternoon to commemorate a scene in the movie \”Shawshank Redemption\” as part of the Mansf...