We may have been a bit remiss in sharing it with the Internet, but we’ve been enjoying our weekends here in Ohio, as late summer has faded into autumn (or Fall, which even Chris admits is a nicely evocative name). Just down the road, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park has been an ample source of scenery, hiking, and wildlife, and we’ve managed to make it over there each of the last four weekends. In mid-September, we hiked to the lovely Buttermilk Falls.
Buttermilk Falls, Cuyahoga National Park, Ohio. Photo: Chris Rowan, 2013
The following week, Anne led a class field trip to explore the processes that shape the Crooked River (aka, the Cuyahoga).
Everett Covered Bridge peeks out above Furnace Run in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 21 September 2013. This was one of three sites in the National Park where Anne’s Fluvial Processes class visited on their weekend field trip. Photo by A. Jefferson.
And last week saw another excursion to Beaver Marsh, a lovely spot we first explored last February.
Beaver Marsh in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 29 September 2013. Photo by A. Jefferson
Sadly, this week our options were somewhat limited.
Towpath Trail parking in Peninsula, in the heart of Cuyahoga Valley National Park, 5 October 2013. On a normal autumn weekend day, this lot would be full to capacity. Today it sat empty, with potential visitors gated out.
Close-up of the gate, 5 October 2013.
Things in this National Park are a bit more complicated than in others: you can’t just close the access roads because people live within its borders and some of the paths and land are owned by local regional park authorities. So we were able to visit the town of Peninsula inside the park borders (which is already seeing the effects of the shutdown) but a nice wander along the canal towpath was out. Hopefully, not all our autumn weekends will look like this.
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