Towpath Trailhead at Manchester Rd — Attraction in Coventry Township

Parking lot is pathetically small. I arrived around 1 pm for the 1st time & and luckily there were empty spots, but literally none open when I left at 3. I had to pull over to the gravel utility road to load my bike into my back seat since someone was parked beside me. There's plenty of room for expansion if you look on Google maps. The trail surface itself is really nice; hard packed white gravel. Watch for people fishing in case they don't look and cast their line. You ride 1.5 miles along the canal behind people's back yards, then past industries & a junk yard. It's not too bad looking while the trees are full. It's nice because it's closer to home and may be safer than the Wilbeth trailhead, but I enjoy Vanderhoof Trailhead heading south...

This great little bike ride is one of the little known and little used parts of the Ohio and Erie Tow Path Trail. This portion starts at the Manchester Rd. Trailhead and is located just south of I76 (hywy 224) near Lake Nesmith off of Manchester Rd. It stretches from Manchester Rd. to the Wolf Creek Trailhead near Snyder Rd. in Barberton. The canal is a great home to waterfowl and turtles. Blue herons and ducks of all kinds are quite common along this stretch of the Tow Path. This part of the trail is flat and is about 4 miles long, so you can ride from the Manchester Trailhead to the Wolf Creek Trailhead and back again in...

The towpath is always great and well maintained. This location was easy to locate. The only drawbacks in this particular location are the fact that you're looking at people's houses on one side when you go to the left (if you're looking for nature) and when you leave you have to make a right onto Manchester Rd. (So if you want to get back to the highway you have to go down and...