One of my favorite places to hike and picnic is at Conkle’s Hollow, Hocking Hills. Conkle’s Hollow is a Nature Preserve located in the Hocking Hills Region of Ohio. There are many state parks, preserves, and hiking trails in the area. The biggest and most popular is Old Man’s Cave. Conkle’s Hollow was named for W.J. Conkle who carved his…
One of the things we really enjoy doing in the summer is taking a canoe trip with the kids. We are in Ohio and the best place for us to go is to head down to the Hocking River. There are a couple canoe liveries down there and they both have great canoe rental prices. Usually when we take the…
Rock House is another hiking trail park in the Hocking Hills area in Ohio. We visited Rock House the summer before last. It is the only true enclosed cave in the Hocking Hills region. It’s a tunnel like cave and it is situated about halfway up a 150 foot cliff face. It has a 25 foot ceiling height, 200 foot…
“Old Man’s Cave derives its name from the hermit Richard Rowe who lived in the large recess cave of the gorge. His family moved to the Ohio River Valley around 1796 from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee to establish a trading post. He and his two dogs traveled through Ohio along the Scioto River in search of game. On one…
We visited a few state parks this summer and this one is Ash Cave in the Hocking Hills region. I have visited most of these places when I was a kid myself and since our kids have never seen these places, we thought it would be nice to take them to explore and see it for themselves. We are a…