Traphouse

The best place in town to relax and enjoy a nice cold adult beverage. Laid back and unpretentious, a place where everyone is friendly and all are welcome! Drinks prices are lowest in town and you get a healthy pour. Play pool, enjoy darts or just shoot the breeze… This place is good for all of the above. A big plus is the outdoor covered smoking area.

The Traphouse is a hard place to find. You can circle around the entire block and not find it. The trick is to realize that it is not actually located on any street, it is instead located in the dead center of the block and hidden by trees and buildings on all sides. So when you see that gravel alleyway that looks the the driveway of a mobile home, that’s where you need to turn in.
Inside is a big open area with a square-​shaped bar in the center. The walls are covered in hundreds of photos of the bar’s loyal patrons.
The bartender lamented to me about how the bar business is really hurting in Chillicothe because so many of the town’s young people have been moving away. «We have really low overhead, though, so we’ll be fine,» she added.
She’s probably right. Most of the other bars in town have either recently closed or changed hands. But the Traphouse has been going strong for years. A big part of that is that of those that have survived, it’s the most «real».