Towpath Trail Part I (7/6/2014)

Sunday, July 6, 2014
A hike in the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, starting at Harvard Road, following the Towpath Trail.

ALCOA Forge Overlook with old forging press

Nature covering a landfill

Cuyahoga River

Cuyahoga River flood level marker
(Kent is 7'4"!)

Aesculus glabra/Ohio Buckeye

Remnant of the Ohio & Erie Canal

Remnant of the Newburgh & South Shore Railroad

Petroleum Storage Overlook with a piece of the tank wall

Just Passing Through Overlook with a stray bobber

Rosa setigera/Prairie Rose

Old tractor at Family Farming Overlook

Canada Geese at Wildlife Refuge area

CSX Short Line Railroad Marcy Trestle (65' high, 800' long)

Lithrum salicaria/Purple Loosestrife

Rhus typhina/Staghorn Sumac

Acer nugundo/Box Elder Maple flower

NOT!

Drove home through the Tremont neighborhood.

St Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral

St Theodosius was consecrated in 1913 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is perhaps best known as the setting of a wedding in the 1978 movie The Deer Hunter.