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| I never saw a Mohican State Park sign so the adjacent state forest sign will have to do. |
ABOUT THE PARK:
Mohican State Park - Ohio State Parks
DIRECTIONS:
GPS Coordinates 40.623246, -82.326400
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| Parking at Pleasant Hill Dam. |
TRAIL MAP:
Mohican State Park Trail Map - Ohio DNR
HIKE DISTANCE: 3 miles
THE HIKE:
This was intended to be a 10-mile hike but with rain and impending thunderstorms I was prepared to cut it short. I had stopped before leaving the interstate to check the weather and the forecast showed a couple of hours of no rain.
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| Checking out Pleasant Hill Dam across the street from the parking lot. |
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| Back over on the parking lot side, the trailhead. |
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| That would be our return route, coming up that looooooong flight of steps. |
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| It was so dark in the forest that the slightest movement caused blurry pictures. |
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| Little Lyons Falls |
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| Looking down from the bridge at the top of Little Lyons Falls. |
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| Continuing on t Big Lyons. |
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| Brodie froze for a minute thinking the trail was going straight into the falls. Nope, left turn at the bottom of the steps. |
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| Looking back at Big Lyon Falls. |
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| Continuing on to the covered bridge where I would have to decide whether to cut the hike short or not. |
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| Right at the T-intersection but first a look at ... |
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| Clearfork Mohican River |
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| Surprisingly I had cell service. Not quite at the covered bridge yet but the forecast not looking so good :( |
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| Coming up on the park road with the covered bridge on the left. Straight would be the 10-mile loop, left to the covered bridge would be the 3-mile loop. |
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| The 3-mile loop it is. |
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| After crossing the bridge, follow the paved road left then left on the Pleasant Hill Trail. |
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| This trail follows close to the river. |
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| The rain has started. |
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| Another wet great blue heron. |
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| Amazingly, just as we reached the clearing with the looooong stretch of steps, the rain stopped. |
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| A groundhog crossing the hill. |
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| Up we go. |
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| Stopping to take a picture because the quads were on fire! |
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| Almost there. |
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| A final picture from the top. |
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| And back to the car. |
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| No sooner had we left than it started to pour and it rained for the next hour and a half clear through to Columbus, OH |
Once I got on I-70 West in Columbus it stopped raining and the sun started coming out so on to Plan B Hike in Dayton, OH to get in a few more miles.
What a beautiful place, and the rain helped give you some of the misty views.
ReplyDeleteThe rain also means we had the trail all to ourselves and I'll take that any day!
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