Hocking Hills Day Hikes
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Hocking Hills Day Hikes - Mary Reed
Copyright 2019 by Mary Reed
All rights reserved.
First eBook edition published May 2019
First paperback edition published June 2019
Published by Get Out! Publishing, LLC
Athens, Ohio
www.getoutpublishing.com
Cover design by Emily Smith
Maps by Marissa Alessi, Elizabeth Devine, and Jennifer Matarese
Photographs by Mary Reed
ISBN 978-1-7336780-0-1 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-7336780-1-8 (eBook)
Contents
Locator Map
Introduction
Hikes
Shallenberger State Nature Preserve | Shallenberger Trail System
Christmas Rocks State Nature Preserve | Christmas Rocks Trail System
Wahkeena Nature Preserve | Casa Burro, Shelter, and Boardwalk Trails
Rhododendron Cove State Nature Preserve | Rhododendron Cove Trail System
Boch Hollow State Nature Preserve |North Trailhead, Buckeye, and Pond Trails
Clear Creek Metro Park |Fern Trail
Rockbridge State Nature Preserve | Rock Shelter and Natural Bridge Trails
Hocking Hills State Park: Cantwell Cliffs | Cantwell Rim and Cantwell Gorge Trails
Hocking Hills State Park: Rock House | Rock House Gorge Trail to Rock House Rim Trail
Hocking State Forest |Buckeye Trail
Butterfly Ridge | Main Trail
Hocking State Forest: Airplane Rock | Airplane Rock Access Road
Hocking State Forest: Rock Climbing and Rappelling Area | Trail to Big Spring Hollow
Hocking State Forest: Rock Climbing and Rappelling Area | Buckeye Trail to Balanced Rock
Conkles Hollow State Nature Preserve | Rim and Gorge Trails
Hocking Hills State Park: Old Man’s Cave | Grandma Gatewood/Buckeye Trail
Hocking Hills State Park: Old Man’s Cave to Cedar Falls | Grandma Gatewood/Buckeye Trail to Gorge Overlook Trail
Hocking Hills State Park: Old Man’s Cave to Cedar Falls to Ash Cave | Grandma Gatewood/Buckeye and Cedar Falls Trails
Hocking Hills State Park: Whispering Cave | Hemlock Bridge to Whispering Cave Trail
Hocking Hills State Park: Cedar Falls | Cedar Falls Trail
Hocking Hills State Park: Ash Cave | Ash Cave Gorge Trail/Buckeye Trail to Ash Cave Rim Trail
Tar Hollow State Park | Ross Hollow Trail
Lake Hope State Park | Peninsula Trail
Zaleski State Forest | Moonville Rail Trail
Wayne National Forest | Ora E. Anderson Nature Trail
Hikes by Length
Hikes by Features
Permit-only Preserves
Nearby Parks
Backpacking Trails
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
The Hocking Hills
The Hocking Hills is a region in southeast Ohio, arguably the most scenic part of the state. It’s known for rock shelters, gorges, cliffs, and waterfalls. The name of the Hocking River and the surrounding region comes from the native (perhaps Shawnee or Delaware) word Hockhocking, which roughly translates to bottleneck, presumed to refer to a bottleneck in the river.
The core region is anchored by Hocking Hills State Park in Hocking County, but the greater Hocking Hills region includes other state parks, state forests, state nature preserves, private preserves, and the Wayne National Forest. Hiking is the primary recreational activity here, and the number and quality of trails do not disappoint.
Its geologic history is what makes the Hocking Hills unique. The last glacier—the Wisconsinan Glacier, which covered Ohio some 12,000 years ago—terminated here, and today the flat landscape of the rest of Ohio gives way to land that the glacier never flattened, and also to valleys created by glacial meltwater.
The rock that surfaces here in the form of cliffs and recess caves is sandstone. The largest, most receded caves are made of Black Hand Sandstone, which erodes easily compared to surrounding stone. The dominant trees are deciduous ones, including many varieties of oaks and maples, but the tree that distinguishes the Hocking Hills is the hemlock, easily identified by its short, flat needles and small cones. Unfortunately, the hemlock woolly adelgid is a pest that is laying waste to hemlock trees in the East. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has a hemlock woolly adelgid management plan that includes chemical treatment and biological controls. The treatments are working, and the Hocking Hills