Hocking Hills - Ohio

Sorry it has been so long since I posted anything. Been down since December and just not up to posting. Will try to catch up over the next few weeks.

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 Lancaster, chef offers cooking school on the weekends; nice lady whose Dad owns the place. Only downside was that the staff was not happy; got to hear lots of complaints on Sunday night when the owners were 'out'. Food was really good! Many options on which type of room you want. However, there are tons of cabins that can be rented in the area of Logan. Some of the cabins have stables where you can put your own horse or rent one. Canoes and rip line tours too.

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 Hills State Park, there are other 'metro parks' and 'preservation areas' which all have great hikes.

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.