This 305-acre park is located within the upper Cuyahoga River watershed and includes Lake Kelso, a pristine glacier-formed kettle lake, and the Charles Dambach Preserve.
A kettle (also known as a kettle lake, kettle hole, or pothole) is a depression/hole in an outwash plain formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters. The kettles are formed as a result of blocks of dead ice left behind by retreating glaciers, which become surrounded by sediment deposited by meltwater streams as there is increased friction.[1] The ice becomes buried in the sediment and when the ice melts, a depression is left called a kettle hole, creating a dimpled appearance on the outwash plain. Lakes often fill these kettles; these are called kettle hole lakes. Another source is the sudden drainage of an ice-dammed lake. When the block melts, the hole it leaves behind is a kettle. As the ice melts, ramparts can form around the edge of the kettle hole. The lakes that fill these holes are seldom more than 10 m (33 ft) deep and eventually fill with sediment. In acid conditions, a kettle bog may form but in alkaline conditions, it will be kettle peatland. (Wikipedia)
In 1999, it received the designation of Ohio State Nature Preserve with open hours limited to to 6 AM to 9 PM daily.
Three trails total 1.52 miles. Link to trail map.
Save some time so that after you find the cache you can return to the parling lot and take the trail to view Lake Keslo from the observation deck..
NO swimming, wading, or boating as the lake side of the preserve is a sensitive ecosystem..