Hocking State Forest and Park

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Description

Hocking State Forest is a state forest in Hocking County, Ohio, United States. The forest adjoins Hocking Hills State Park and three nature preserves including Conkle's Hollow State Nature Preserve. The forest is in one of the most scenic areas of Ohio, known as the Hocking Hills. The area features not only forests, but frequent bluffs, rock shelters and waterfalls, due to the Blackhand sandstone. Hocking Hills State Park is a non-contiguous state park in the Hocking Hills region of Hocking County, Ohio, United States, it is contiguous with the Hocking State Forest. Within the park are several spectacular rock formations. The park contains seven separate sections: Ash Cave, Cantwell Cliffs, Cedar Falls, Conkle's Hollow, Old Man's Cave, Rock House and Whispering Cave. Ash Cave, Old man's Cave and Whispering Cave are each examples of recess caves. Cantwell Cliffs and Conkle's Hollow each feature a narrow, deep gorge, Rock House is a cliffed area with a rock shelter, Cedar Falls is a large waterfall, but each of the park areas except Rock House contain waterfalls.

Trails in the Hikepack map

  • A-Frame Bridge
  • Airplane Rock Trail
  • Broken Rock Falls Trail
  • Buckeye Bypass Trail
  • Buckeye Trail
  • Buckeye Trail (Old Mans Cave)
  • Cedar Falls Trail
  • Conkles Hollow Gorge Trail
  • Conkles Hollow Rim Trail
  • Gorge Overlook Trail
  • Hocking Hills State Park Cabin
  • Long Tunnel Trail
  • Lower Falls Trail
  • Nihiser Road
  • North Country National Scenic Trail
  • Old Man's Cave Trail
  • Orange Trail
  • Sowers Road
  • Webester Road

Attractions in the Hikepack map

  • A-Frame Bridge
  • Airplane Rock
  • Broken Rock Falls
  • Buckeye Trail
  • Cedar Falls
  • Cedar Grove
  • Cedar Grove Post Office (historical)
  • Chapel Cave
  • Conkles Hollow Gorge Trail
  • Devil's Bathtub
  • Fisherman Parking
  • Gorge Overlook Trail
  • Group Camp Picnic Shelter
  • Hocking Hills State Park Family Walk-In Campground
  • Hocking Hills State Park Ranger Station
  • Hunters Rock
  • Long Tunnel Trail
  • Lower Falls
  • Lower Falls Lookout
  • Old Man's Cave
  • Old Man's Cave Campground
  • Old Man's Cave Trail
  • Parish Rocks
  • Rockhouse Post Office (historical)
  • Rose Lake Parking Area
  • Sphinx Head
  • The Grotto
  • Upper Falls

Copyright

The PDF and JPG maps are released by Hikepack under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Contains data ©OpenStreetMap contributors (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) under the Open Database License (https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/). Topographic map based on elevation data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Aerial imagery available from the U.S. Geological Survey. Description text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License). Cover image ©Jaknouse https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oldmanscave5.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).