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    Hocking Hills Day Hikes
    Hocking Hills Day Hikes
    Hocking Hills Day Hikes
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    Hocking Hills Day Hikes

    By Mary Reed

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    Southeast Ohio's Hocking Hills is known for its waterfalls, recess caves, and gorges. Hocking Hills Day Hikes recommends the best hiking trails in the region. Each featured hike entry provides a trail description, trailhead directions, a descriptive photo, and an easy-to-read trail map. Additionally, find tips on other nearby hikes, and find hike listings by length or features.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMay 15, 2019
    ISBN9781733678018
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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

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