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…
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Summer Adventures: Hocking Hills, Cedar Falls
Hocking Hills, Cedar Falls “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. Cedar Falls itself is the greatest waterfall in terms of volume in the Hocking region. Queer Creek tumbles over the face of the Blackhand sandstone displaying…
Summer Adventures: Blackhand Gorge Nature Preserve (Licking County, Ohio)
As you can tell from all my other Summer Adventures posts, my family love the outdoors and we spend a lot of time in the summer exploring state parks and nature preserves. We also like to check out other outdoor recreation like canoeing and other things like that. The kids love it. We are thinking about heading to Ohio Caverns…
Summer Adventures: Hocking Hills Ash Cave
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…