While the park itself is nice and parking is plentiful, the MASSIVE amounts of goose poop EVERYWHERE is quite disgusting! You literally can't walk anywhere without stepping in it. The dock to fish off of is covered in goose poop, which is not only unhealthy, but it's just nasty! The fishing isn't that great due to the weeds that have grown to the top of the water. You could almost walk across the lake they are that thick! They closed this lake for a couple years to dredge it and make it nicer. They should have gotten rid of the geese and treated the water for the weed growth. It is truly ashamed too because this could be...
Read moreFree parking, free Access, free picnic area, open land for kids to run and play. All in this area that is part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Take the 1 mile paved and dirt (easy) walk and enjoy different views of the lake and the foundations of the old power plant, and (193 era) CCC installations to mark the parking area and build the (what is now) bathroom and sheltered picnic area. Spend some quality time in the outdoors close to major population areas of Cleveland and Akron. The BEST our federal...
Read moreWent on a rainy Tuesday afternoon in October. Got to the lakeside parking lot around 3pm. Started doing the Pine Grove Trail but then realized that my car was the only one in the parking lot and this area is notorious for vehicle break-ins, so just turned around. Good photos at the lake for sure, with nice fall foliage all around. The Pine Grove Trail is across Truxell Road. The rangers had advised that the Salt Run would be very slippery and muddy with all the rain, so didn't...
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