Welcome to Cleveland's best kept secret neighborhood, South Hills Area of Old Brooklyn! We've got a lot going here: a greenhouse on W. 11th Street, residential architectural styles to fit just about everybody (ranches, bungalows, arts and crafts bungalows, split levels and colonials), lots of great restaurants, a cheese shop, a full-sized grocery store within 20 minutes walk, a bus line that takes less than 25 minutes to get to downtown, and a central location (25 minutes to the far east surburbs, 25 minutes to the far west suburbs, 15 minutes to downtown, 30 minutes from Akron, and 5 minutes to the Cleveland Metroparks' portion of the Ohio and Erie Canal towpath).
There used to be several farms and greenhouses here but sadly only one on W. 11th Street is holding on. For folks who want to try raising their own, the county's largest community garden is in this gem of a neighborhood.
My daughter and I loved sending up Chinese Lanterns and flying kites and glider airplanes in the vacant lot on Schaaf and Hinkley Industrial Parkway. Down the Hinkley Industrial Parkawy hill is a factory for snacks and snack-sized cakes; sometimes it smells like pastries and others like chips! There is a beautiful view of the Cleveland skyline from the vacant lot, especially awesome on a summer night!
Please be gentle as you handle the outer geocache container. It is magnetized to a nail and should lift up easily. There's no room to exchange swag. Bring your own pen. Although my height approaches 6 feet and I can reach it easily, if you're much shorter, then you may have trouble reaching it. Pictures of geocachers next to the thing holding the geocache container are welcome. Although I've seen red-tailed hawks in the neighborhood, I don't think they'll be fooled and try to eat the outer container.