Place to see: Hocking Hills State Park, Logan, Ohio, United States

About this place:

I was surprised to find this beautiful secluded place in the center of Ohio. The stream carved through this valley creating sandstone and shale cliffs creating a place you have to see.

According to geologists the glaciers never reached the park areas, but the glaciers did change the climate in Ohio to a moist, cool environment. The woods are full of towering eastern hemlocks, the Canada yew and the yellow and black birch.

Archeologists have found evidence of the ancient Adena culture inhabited the recesses more than 7,000 years ago. They also claim that Wyandot, Delaware and Shawnee Indian tribes traveled through or lived here.

In 1924, the state purchased the area to preserve the scenic features.