10 Best Flea Markets in Ohio

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Deciding which flea markets in Ohio stand out as the best in the state requires examining multiple criteria.

First, the best flea markets must have enough vendors and patrons supporting each other to create continual success.

Other measures — such as vendor spaces located too far apart — break up the flow of crowds. 

Alternatively, vendor booths and tables placed too close together cause difficulties for people with mobility aids and parents of small children in strollers.

Finally, a balanced variety of goods means the antique-seeking crowd, collectible customers, clothing clientele, car parts seekers, and home goods consumers all have something drawing them to the flea market.

Defining the Best

Vendor Perspective

Because the word best is relative, it helps to discuss which qualities the best flea markets share.

Vendors and customers have completely different priorities, however.

Vendors need a steady flow of buying customers throughout the day.

Ideally, vendors need 100 walk-throughs to have ten lookers to make one sale.

In reality, you need at least 12 sales per hour for a vendor to make a decent profit. 

Consequently, small flea markets cannot sustain full-time flea market vendors. 

Customer Outlook

Flea market customers also have agendas.

For example, young, childless couples want something fun and exciting to do or see.

Elderly customers will shop at the most accessible booths around the perimeter, closer to the gate.

Blue-collar workers seeking work clothes, hand tools, and power tools will buy whatever they can find quickest.

However, families want fun children’s activities, fast food, home goods, and easy-access family bathrooms with changing tables.

Well-designed flea markets encourage the right vendors to set up in the locations that will see the most traffic and serve the correct demographic.

For example, flea markets that offer stroller, scooter, and cart rentals at the gate increase profits, draw more customers, and increase total sales.

In addition, having wagons or handcarts available encourages buying larger, heavier, more expensive items.

The 10 Best Flea Markets in Ohio

1. Rogers Community Auction and Flea Market

This open-air and indoor market in Rogers, Ohio, features a monthly second Tuesday consignment auction, a weekly Friday flea market, and a monthly Saturday market.

Conveniently located at 45625 SR 154, Rogers, Ohio 44455, the Rogers Community Auction and Flea Market attracts 50,000 visitors a day during peak season and features 1600 vendor spaces.

You can stay five miles away at the Days Inn overnight or try the Holiday Inn Express in North Lima if you do not mind a longer drive.

Vendor spaces cost $23 for an outdoor space without electricity, $24 for an outdoor area with electricity, $26 for a 12-by12-foot pavilion with electricity, and $30 for a 12-by12-foot building space with an access door.

For serious full-time vendors, head to Trader Jack’s in Bridgeville, Pennsylvania (59 minutes away), and the Four Seasons Flea and Farm Market (32 minutes away) in Youngstown, Ohio. 

These locations provide the closest thriving flea markets for Saturday and Sunday sales.

The Four Seasons Market stays open Wednesdays and Sundays from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, while Trader Jacks opens on Saturday and Sunday every week, from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM. 

Hopping back and forth between these three markets enables you to constantly pick up new stock while accessing an additional 600 vendor spaces at Four Seasons and 100 outdoor vendor spaces at Trader Jack’s.

2. Four Seasons Flea and Farm Market

Find this flea market at 3000 McCartney Road — also known as route 422 — in Youngstown, just three miles from Pennsylvania’s western border.

The Wednesday sale draws about 100 vendors in the afternoon, while the Sunday sale pulls around 600 vendors and a sizable crowd.

The market’s blacktop surface makes it suitable for strollers, scooters, and mobility chairs.

The market’s vendors bring something new each week, selling produce, popcorn, and precious collectibles, among other things.

Call (330) 744-5050 to reserve vendor space. Free admission and parking ensure larger crowds.

3. Hartville Flea Market

As possibly the oldest flea market in Ohio, Hartville Flea Market opened in 1939, with 80 years of continuous operation.

This revered flea market possesses multigenerational customer loyalty and appeal and encompasses 200 acres dedicated to great Ohio food, farm produce, arts and crafts, hardware, and collectibles.

The seven-acre hardware store reserves 3,000 square feet just for grills.

The Shops at Hartville Kitchen includes a children’s shop and play area.

The Kitchen itself, founded in 1966, opens at 11:00 AM and serves 2000 hungry shoppers every day except Wednesday and Sunday.

The Kitchen also holds about 15 dinner concerts every year.

Next door, the Hartville Comfort Suites Hotel will accommodate you if you wish to stay nearby.

Due to its reputation and longevity, becoming a vendor at Hartville Flea Market requires patience.

Only a handful of spaces do not belong to regular vendors.

Instead, you could apply for one of the 700 employee positions and gain inside knowledge and experience before attempting to become a traditional vendor.

On Monday, Thursday, and Friday, blacktop spaces cost $12, and pavilion spaces run $14.

In contrast, Saturday prices run $17 for regular and $19 for oversize blacktop spots, $20 for standard blacktop corners, $22 for oversize ones, $21 for a common pavilion space, and $24 for a Prime pavilion.

In addition, management will impose an additional $5.00 charge for daytime electricity use at pavilions and an overnight cost of $25.

4. Walnut Creek Amish Flea Market

Head fifty-five miles south down I-77 and west on SR 39 in Sugarcreek from the Hartville Flea Market.

Stop at 1900 OH-39, the Walnut Creek Amish Flea Market, which features an all-indoor, single-level, climate-controlled, ADA-compliant building with 42 permanent vendors, including Grandma Schrock’s Kitchen. 

Grandma’s menu features dinner specials on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Try a steak burger with fries or pulled pork with mashed potatoes, soup of the day, and a slice of the day’s fresh pie.

An annual Chocolate Tour benefits the Holmes County 58:12 Rescue women’s shelter in May.

June features a Father’s Day giveaway to win a set of cornhole boards and beanbags.

The July Family Summer Giveaway includes dinner for four and an overnight visit to the Inn at Amish Door in Wilmot, Ohio; four tickets for the Farm at Walnut Creek; and a $50 Flea Market shopping spree. Kids’ Day takes place in August.

Kids receive a Flea Market passport book and participate in a scavenger hunt for treats and prizes.

In September, visit the petting zoo on the Farm at Walnut Creek.

The annual Fall Food Tour benefits 58:12 again, and vendors hand out candy during Trick or Treat night.

On November 11th, veterans from all service branches receive a t-shirt from the Outlet in the Country.

Also, in November, earn Jingle Bucks certificates worth 10 percent off everything for every $100 spent.

Finally, in December, kids receive a treat when they stop to greet Santa.

5. Jamie’s Flea Market

Head northwest from Hartville and find Jamie’s Flea Market at 46388 Telegraph Rd. (SR-113) in South Amherst, Ohio.

With 200 indoor vendors and 400 outdoor vendor spaces, Jamie’s Flea Market provides more than 32 vendor categories, including a fortune-teller’s booth, a seller of goose clothes, pet supply dealers, antiques, and musical instruments for budding band students.

In addition, the numerous food concessionaires ensure that you will not go hungry, and the cottage food lover will find jams, honey, cheeses, beef jerky, and gourmet coffee, plus abundant produce.

Jamie’s flea market began life as an auction house.

Now in its 50s, Jamie’s might be the second-oldest continuously-operated flea market in Ohio.

The free parking includes designated motorcycle spaces and clearly-marked handicap spots, and the East building features an accessible restroom.

The flea market opens every Wednesday and Saturday from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM.

Vendors who do not keep their booths open face fines.

Vendor spaces in the East Building cost $28 per week, while those in the Center building cost $31.

Outdoor spaces cost $15 per day, plus a $20 concession fee if selling food or drink for on-premises consumption.

6. Tiffin Flea Market

Within an hour and 15 minutes southwest of Jamie’s Flea Market, you encounter the Tiffin Flea Market at the Seneca County Fairgrounds.

The flea market began as a fundraiser for the newly-formed Seneca County Junior Fair Foundation in 1971, making this flea market close to 50 years old.

The hog barn, beef barn, and youth center building resulted primarily from flea market funds.

Vendors may camp in designated areas for a $20 fee per night per vehicle.

Electric use at your flea market booth costs $6 per weekend, and you may rent tables for $6 each.

However, the Junior Fair Board requires you to tell the fee collectors about your rented tables, or you pay double.

You must also have or apply for a State of Ohio Transient’s Vendor License, which costs $25, before you may reserve a booth at the flea market. 

The flea market is open from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM on Saturday and from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM Sunday.

One-day reservations cost $15, while two-day reservations cost $20.

7. Rinky Dink

Travel 90 minutes south from the Walnut Creek Amish Flea Market to Marietta, Ohio, and you will discover the Rinky Dink Flea Market at 404 Fort Harmar Drive/ Rte 7.

This indoor/outdoor market stays open between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM Friday through Sunday.

Contact Market Manager William Putnam at (740) 350-7923 or message the market’s Facebook page to become a vendor.

Indoor and outside booths cost $30 per weekend or $15 per day.

Typical indoor stalls measure 12 feet by 13, and additional space costs 20 cents per square foot.

The market runs a snack bar all three days.

8. Hocking Hills Market

Located at 26758-26790 US-33, in Rockbridge, Ohio, the Hocking Hills Market opens at sunrise and closes at 5:00 PM, Friday through Sunday.

Hocking Hills has the most straightforward vendor rules: for outside sites, arrive early, set up your booth, and pay the fee collectors $10 when they walk down your row. 

9. Treasure Aisles

Located on opposite sides of 1-75 in Monroe Treasure Aisles and Trader’s World in Lebanon, Ohio, provide double the flea market fun for patrons and ample sales space for vendors.

Treasure Aisles, located at 320 N Garver Road, changed its name from Turtle Creek Flea Market in 2008.

The market features 500 indoor shops and 44 acres of outdoor booth space.

All outdoor vendors at Treasure Aisle pay a $6.00 registration fee.

The 10′ x 14′ or 20′ blacktop spaces cost $25 per day, spots between shelters cost $27 daily, and covered-shelter booths run $30 a day.

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10. Trader’s World

Trader’s World opened across the highway at 601 Union Road in 1984.

Its buildings boast over 850 indoor booths, and more than 400 outdoor spaces sit on 11 acres of flea market fun.

Treasure Aisles and Trader’s World charge a $2.00 cash-only admission fee per car.

With 8000 to 10,000 shoppers every Saturday and Sunday, the fee keeps enough parking available.

In addition, Trader’s World specifies that it has accessible parking at the North and South main entrances and between buildings Nine and Ten. 

The 10 Best Flea Markets in Ohio – Summary Table

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• OVERALL RISK: LOW
• TRANSPORT & TAXIS RISK: LOW
• PICKPOCKETS RISK: LOW
• NATURAL DISASTERS RISK: MEDIUM
• MUGGING RISK: LOW
• TERRORISM RISK: LOW
• SCAMS RISK: LOW
• WOMEN TRAVELERS RISK: LOW