Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Cuyahoga National Park

I did something different and took the train through the Cuyahoga National Park. The train gives you a few options... You can pay $3 for a hike and bike ticket and get off the train anywhere you wish and hike or bike back out. There is a Towpath that runs through the entire park. Here is a picture of the path.



Or you can buy a coach ticket and get off and on whenever you wish, or there is a ticket to sit in the dome car but you do not have the option of getting off and it is a three-hour trip.
I opted for the coach ticket and got off at Boston Mills to walk the 4 1/2 miles to Brandywine Falls and back. It is unbelievably humid today, which is not making the walk as pleasant as I had hoped LOL 

This is what I was expecting ...
Cuyahoga Valley National Park in northeast Ohio is home to a breathtaking 65-foot waterfall that flows from Brandywine Creek.
Because Ohio is experiencing a dry year, this is what the falls look like now ...


The walk turned out to be a little more than I expected .... rated moderate to strenuous .... but when I stopped to rest on the return trip, this is the sight that greeted me when I turned ...

It was a nice day.  I passed on any more sightseeing and went back to my home.

Besides humidity, Cleveland has traffic.  A nice thing is they have Express Lanes (sort of like the diamond lanes at home except everyone can use them). They moved much faster than the "local" lanes because you can't enter or exit except in certain places.  They did help and I was glad to use them.

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