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Mansfield is the county seat of Richland County in the U.S. state of Ohio. The city is located in north-central Ohio, approximately 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Cleveland and 67 miles (108 km) northeast of Columbus. Mansfield is also known as the "Carousel Capital of Ohio" and "Racing Capital of Ohio".

Parks and outdoor attractions:
Kingwood Center is a 47 acre estate and gardens, former home of Ohio Brass industrialist Charles Kelly King. Located in downtown Mansfield's Historic Carrousel District is the Richland Carrousel Park which opened in 1991 to tourist, is the first hand-carved wooden indoor carousel to be built and operated in the United States since the 1930s built by Carousel Works inc. The Mansfield Motorsports Park (formerly Mansfield Motorsports Speedway) is a half-mile automobile race track that features a regular weekly series of modified and stock car racing. Also located southwest of Mansfield near Lexington is the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course which is a road course auto racing facility that hosts major racing events. Malabar Farm State Park, located southeast of the city is a country home and farm of Mansfield native and Pulitzer Prize winning author Louis Bromfield, and location of Humphrey Bogart's wedding to Lauren Bacall. The Mohican State Park is a state park located southeast of Mansfield near Loudonville.

Snow Trails Ski Resort is Ohio's oldest ski resort opened in 1961, and highest at 1475 feet, with 16 runs, and is one of the few skiing locations in Ohio along with Clearfork Ski Resort located near Butler.

Richland B & O Trail, opened in 1995 and operated by the Richland County Park District, is a paved 18.4-mile hiking and bicycle trail laid out on the abandoned Baltimore & Ohio rail branch line north and east from Butler via Bellville and Lexington to North Lake Park in Mansfield.

The Ohio State University has a regional campus at Mansfield. It is a coeducational public university founded in 1958. North Central State College (formerly North Central Technical College) is a community college that shares the Mansfield campus with Ohio State University.

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