Liberty Park, Ohio 5/16/2026

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.

Park entrance sign

Directional sign at the trailhead 

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.

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.

Boardwalk on the Ledges Trail

Observation deck on the Ledges Trail

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.

The entrance to Glacier Cave

Glacier Cave

Glacier Cave

Glacier Cave

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Center Valley Park, Ohio 5/15/2026

This weekend, we are visiting family in Ohio, and I decided to take a morning hike on some trails near where we are staying. Center Valley Park in Twinsburg has two parts divided by railroad tracks in the middle. We parked at the north end of the park and started by walking down a paved bike path through the west side of the park. This bike path was a nice walk and had two bridges over Tinkers Creek.

Entrance Sign

On the bike path 

Tinkers Creek

Maps of the park showed a network of trails off of the bike path on this side of the park. We tried multiple of these trails, but we found that they were all overgrown, muddy, and very poorly maintained. Instead, we stayed on the bike path to its southern trailhead.

One of the poorly maintained trails 

Despite the poor maintenance of the trails, we did come across this impressive staircase!

After making a connection on sidewalls to the east side of the park, we followed the Old Hickory Trail back north. This was the nicest part of the hike as the gravel path wound its way through mature hardwood forest with some huge hickory trees. This section of trail also had a lot of nice boardwalks and bridges. Upon reaching the northern entrance to the trail, we made the connection back to where we parked on sidewalks.

Bridge on the Old Hickory Trail 

Old Hickory Trail

Old Hickory Trail

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