Gorge Metro Park

Our family have been coming to this park for years. Other than a few parks in the Cuyahoga Valley and Nelson Ledges, you are not going to find large rock formations and cliffs like this in many other public places in north eastern Ohio. This place is really cool. The lower trail will take you by the river and waterfall. The upper trail will take you by large towering rock formations and caves. There are pavilions and picnic tables to sit and eat. A modernized restroom. (Not just a portable toilet). There is a dock off the lower trail just before the dam that you can fish off of. It lacks a playground but in my experience kids really enjoy this place. The pictures don't do it justice. It's really surreal being up close to terra firma so massive. It's one of the closest parks we have locally to an experience in mountainous states like in the Colorado's, Appalachia, Cascade mountain states etc.

A Little history about our cave parks : As of the 80's and 90s not many know this but many of the caves in ALL the parks were mostly filled in with trees and dirt or locked off. I actually got to explore many of the caves 30+ years ago as a child. They even gave tours when I was little. I was actually at Nelson ledges and Virginia Kendall a couple times when they were filling in the caves. It happened because people actually died in a few or died trying to get to them.