The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a nice report on Ohio’s Hocking Hills area.  Excerpts and link:

Hocking Hills State Park - which is not one, but a collection of seven small parks located throughout Hocking County - attracted millions of visitors last year. Take a quarter-mile walk off the road, and you’ll see that the area’s popularity hasn’t spoiled its beauty.

The region is a hiker’s paradise, but you don’t have to be a backcountry adventurer to appreciate it. Two of the county’s most stunning areas - Ash Cave and Conkle’s Hollow - have paved, level walkways, making them perfect for young children and visitors in wheelchairs.

The horseshoe-shaped Ash Cave takes its name from the huge pile of ashes found by early settlers, believed to be from Indian campfires built up over hundreds ofyears. It’s the state’s largest recess cave - 90 feet tall,100 feet deep and wider than two football fields.

Acoustics inside the shelter made it a popular spot for meetings and church services years ago. The audio wonders still work: Be sure to check out the “whispering gallery” within the cave, where even the quietest voices carry hundreds of feet.

More here…

http://blog.cleveland.com/travel/2008/07/closer_to_home_byway_through_h.html

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