Come on out to Girdled Road Reservation!
This park features approximately 8.81 total miles of walking trails. It also includes a campsite located just off of the Big Creek Valley Trail.
The history of Girdled Road Reservation: Girdled Road Reservation was purchased by Lake Metroparks in 1965. It is named for the first road that the early European settlers built from the Pennsylvania line to the new city of Cleveland in the early 1800s. A small path was cut first. Settlers knew that a larger road was needed, so they "girdled" the trees along the path. (Girdling a tree means cutting through the bark around the entire tree. This cuts off the flow of nutrients so the tree dies. Once a tree dies, it is much easier to remove it and thus widen the road). Today the remaining section of Girdled Road is the northern boundary of this park.
Please note the terrain rating on this cache. Your walk will start out flat, but there will then be a sharp decline, and then you will have to climb uphill again to search for and find the cache.
If you proceed past the location of this cache, you will come across one of the suspension bridges!