Visited Hocking Hills area of Ohio for 3-4 days. The area reminded me of Ithaca - Hocking also was part of the glaciers. The inn where I stayed was in the city of Lancast
Hiking -- fantastic caves, cliffs, and waterfalls. You can walk in the gorges with some of the sites having 'wheelchair accessible' concrete paths in the gorges at least most if not all the way. There are trails connecting the different sites as well as rim trails. In addition to the official Hocking
My favorite was the hiking. Met alot of interesting people; different ones on each trail. The Russians who have lived in Cleveland for ~ 20 years - a couple who had brought each of their parents/aunts/uncles/as well as kids. A man who had met his three grandsons the week before and was taking care of them for the week when his son was on his honeymoon. The two younger boys (around 12 and 9) hiked with me back from Rock House. The couple who had raised a trout in an aquarium and were contemplating how to set it free now that it was 1 to 1.5 feet long; they were worried that it would not know how to eat 'in the wild'. They also had a couple cats - one of which had 'gone fishing' in their other aquarium and enjoyed some exotic goldfish for breakfast.