Garfield Park Reservation (12/5/2015)

Saturday, December 5, 2015
A sunny but cold day. Decided to go someplace close by for a hike: the Iron Springs Loop Trail in the Garfield Park Reservation of Cleveland's Metroparks. Much of the stonework dates from the 1930s Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects.

Stone bridge and wall at Mill Creek

Old Boating Pond Bridge

"The signature piece of Garfield Park Reservation days gone-by. The current stone structure replaced a wooden bridge back in the 1930s when the Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers built this bridge that stands watch over Wolf Creek as it flows into Mill Creek. The current wetland area was once home to the Boating Pond where visitors in the early days of Garfield Park could rent rowboats."

Site of the Old Boating House

Wolf Creek

Another stonework bridge

Shale layers in Wolf Creek

Wolf Creek Falls

We saw a deer herd of at least twenty

Short Cattail Trail detour with a boardwalk;
Brynne and Kent with Gus

We drove to the other end of Garfield Park Reservation to show Brynne the Mill Creek Falls.

Mill Creek Falls Overlook with the wrought-iron fence
designed by Brinsley Tyrrell  and welded by Steve Jordan 

Mill Creek Falls

Kent, Gus, and Brynne at the bicycle rackdesigned by Brinsley Tyrrell  and welded by Steve Jordan