Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail - Cuyahoga Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
Riding the Towpath Trail. NPS / DJR| www.nps.gov
The Pine Grove Trailhead is a junction point in Virginia Kendall Park’s interconnected trail system. Here you can access the 1.8-mile Ledges Trail, which loops around a towering sandstone outcropping. You can also access the Pine Grove Trail, named after the number of planted pine trees further along the 2.2-mile trail.| www.nps.gov
ohio, midwest, recreation, hiking, walking, wildlife watching, birdwatching, lake erie birding trail, fishing, pond, forest, forests, meadow, conservation, landscape conservation| www.nps.gov
The striking rock Ledges create a plateau at a high point in the Cuyahoga Valley uplands. The Ledges Trailhead sits on the top of the plateau. The connector trail behind the bulletin board leads to the 1.8-mile Ledges Trail. It circles the plateau and provides stunning views of the Sharon Sandstone and Conglomerate rock formation.| www.nps.gov
Coal industrialist Hayward Kendall willed his private retreat, later named Virginia Kendall Park, to the people of Ohio following his death in 1927. The Civilian Conservation Corps built Kendall Lake in 1934-1935 by damming Salt Run. At the time Akron Metropolitan Park District (now Summit Metro Parks) managed the property. For years, people flocked here in the summer for the swimming beach and in the winter for the toboggan run and ice skating. Today’s national park visitors come to fish a...| www.nps.gov
Riding the Towpath Trail. NPS / DJR| www.nps.gov
