A short review of Van Buren State Park camping and hiking facilities
Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park, Ohio
On the way home from Pennsylvania on Sunday we stopped by Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park to do a little hiking. It’s a neat area that sort of reminds me of Split Rocks at Camp Oty’okwa. The rocks here have much larger stones embedded in the sandstone, so it almost feels…
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Winter Escape-Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Visiting the Border – 2019 52 week project #7
We stayed four nights of our trip at a little RV park (Americana The Birding Center RV Park) just north of Bentsen State Park so we would have easy access to the Butterfly Reserve and the park. The campgrounds actually had a small Birding area with trails and feeding stations…
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Week Twenty-seven 2017 52 Project: Whispering Cave-Hocking Hills
This spring Hocking Hills State Park opened 2 new trails. The Hemlock Bridge trail features a swinging suspension bridge, and the Whispering Cave trail is a spur trail to the second largest overhang cave in the park. I missed their grand opening, but on June 6th I finally managed to…
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Week Four 2017 52 Project
I am a bit behind on my 52 project. I have had some unexpected trips out of town, but I will catch up. Thank goodness I am not trying to do a 365 this year! On Monday we had some beautiful weather, and since I am working on a state…
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Week Three 2017 52 Project
In 2008 I started a project that involved putting a book together about Ohio’s State parks. I visited a lot of the parks, but because of the size of the project and the distance I would have needed to travel to get to all of the parks, it was put…
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Trip to Moonville Tunnel
We took a trip to the Moonville Rail Trail. Getting to the Moonville tunnel was an easy hike from the road. We thought we would hike up to the King Switch tunnel further down the path, but bridges were out. After crossing one area on rocks we came to another…
