Hocking Hills State Park - Ohio
  Ash
Cave
In the southernmost reaches of Hocking Hills
State Park is
Ash Cave - beyond doubt the most spectacular feature
of the entire park. Ash Cave is the largest, most
impressive recess cave in the state.
The approach to Ash Cave is through a narrow gorge
lined with stately hemlocks, massive beech trees and
various other hardwoods. The valley floor offers
brilliant displays of wildflowers in the all
seasons...
 Cantwell
Cliffs
The Cantwell Cliffs area of
Hocking Hills State Park features a deep gorge
with steep sandstone cliffs. The trails wind there
way along the rim, down in the gorge and through
interesting rock formations in between. In the
Spring the area features at least two waterfalls.
Cantwell Cliffs is located in the northern reaches
of Hocking Hills - 17 miles from Old Man’s Cave on
S.R. 374. Its remote location discourages
visitation...
 Cedar
Falls
If one were to venture down the Lower Gorge of
Old Man's Cave, you would eventually enter the
picturesque valley of Queer Creek. At the point
where Old Man's Creek merges with Queer Creek, the
trail takes an abrupt turn east and enters this new
valley. The trail leading to Cedar Falls passes
through the most austere area in Hocking Hills State
Park. This
remote, primitive chasm is laden with hemlock and
bound by steep rock walls and their accompanying
grottos and waterfalls. It is a wild and lonely but
spectacularly beautiful place...
 Clear
Creek Metro Park
The Clear Creek valley extends from the
intersection of Clear Creek with the Hocking River
in the east to the town of Revenge in the west. In
1996 the valley officially opened as Clear Creek
Metro Park, part of the Franklin County Metro Parks
system. The beauty of the Clear Creek valley comes
from the overlap of geologic and climate zones...
 Conkle's
Hollow
The Hocking Hills State
Park area is full of gorges and
valleys called hollows. Conkle's Hollow is over 200
feet deep at places, said to be the deepest hollow
in Ohio by some, and is only 100 feet wide at
places. The cool microclimate in the gorge supports
plants not normally found in Ohio. In Spring several
waterfalls can be found in the gorge. The mostly
paved gorge trail is 1/2 mile long one way and leads
to the main fall which runs later than the others,
but dries up in the summer....
 Lake
Hope
A natural paradise, Lake Hope State Park lies
entirely within the 18,200-acre Zaleski State Forest
in the valley of Big Sandy Run. It is a rugged,
heavily forested region traversed by steep gorges
and narrow ridges. Abandoned mines, ancient mounds
and beautiful scenery provide interest and pleasure
for hikers, photographers, nature lovers and
historians alike at one of Ohio's most historic and
scenic state parks...
Lake Logan
One of the best fishing lakes in Ohio awaits
sportsmen in Hocking County at Lake Logan State
Park. The lake sports northern pike, bass, bluegill,
crappie, catfish and shuteye. Lake Logan Isa day-use
park that provides scenic picnic areas and secluded
walking paths to enjoy the wooded beauty of Ohio's
hill country...
Old
Man's Cave
Old Man's Cave is part of the Hocking Hills State
Park near Logan, Ohio. The cave is one of Ohio's
most popular natural history attractions.
Old Man's Cave is located in a gorge of Black
Hand Sandstone. Thousands of years of erosion,
principally caused by glaciations and Salt Creek,
which flows through the gorge, resulted in the
cave...
 Rock
Bridge
The Clear Creek valley extends from the
intersection of Clear Creek with the Hocking River
in the east to the town of Revenge in the west. In
1996 the valley officially opened as Clear Creek
Metro Park, part of the Franklin County Metro Parks
system. The beauty of the Clear Creek valley comes
from the overlap of geologic and climate zones...
 Rock
House
Rock House is unique in the Hocking Hills’
region, as it is the only true cave in the park. It
is a tunnel-like corridor situated midway up a
150-foot cliff of Blackhand sandstone...
 Tar
Hollow
Twisting park and forest roads pass through deep
ravines and dense woodlands. Scattered short leaf
and pitch pines growing on the ridges were once a
source of pine tar for early settlers, hence the
name Tar Hollow. Dogwoods, redbuds and a variety of
wildflowers color the hillsides in the springtime.
Fall's pageant of color is spectacular.
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