This morning's hike was at Liberty Park in Twinsburg, one of the Summit County Metro Parks. The park has multiple areas, and we went to the largest of those, the Twinsburg Ledges Area. We started by making loops on the Bluebird Trail and Coyote Run Trails. These easy trails made loops through grassland and shrub habitats with lots of birds along the trails.
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| Park entrance sign |
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| Directional sign at the trailhead |
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| Bluebird Trail |
We then made a loop on the Black Bear Trail. This trail wound through upland hardwood forest with some areas of impressively large trees.
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| Black Bear Trail |
The last loop we made was on the Ledges Trail. We did the loop clockwise and it first went along a long boardwalk and observation deck at a wetland. Soon after the observation deck, it reached the ledges. These impressive cliffs had multiple large cracks and caves. Most were closed to exploration, but the largest one, called Glacier Cave, was open to public access. The cave was typical of the ones in the area and had a few different short passages and deep cracks in the ledge to explore.
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| Boardwalk on the Ledges Trail |
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| Observation deck on the Ledges Trail |
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| The ledges |
After exploring the cave a bit, we returned to the trailhead. It was a great, well maintained, trail system, and I always enjoy checking out the ledge and cave formations in this part of Ohio.
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| The entrance to Glacier Cave |
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| Glacier Cave |
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| Glacier Cave |
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| Glacier Cave |
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