Jackson, Ohio

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Top Hiking Spots in and near Jackson

  • Sugar Grove, Ohio

    Ramona Lake via Creekside Meadows Trailhead

    9.59 mi / 1708.66 ft gain
    Starting at the Creekside Meadows Parking Lot, follow the Creekside Meadows Trail for 0.3 of a mile until it forks into two trails. Follow the left fork towards the road, and as soon as you cross the road, the Cemetery Ridge Trail begins.  Once across Clear Creek Road, the trail gains elevation ...
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  • Logan, Ohio

    Corkscrew Falls

    3.8
    1 mi / 35 ft gain
    I like to describe this waterfall as the "elusive" Corkscrew Falls (aka Robinson Falls). A couple of years ago, only one or two people had blogged on the internet about these falls. They were not super, descriptive details, so most of the time I wandered around till I found the trail. There is no...
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  • West Union, Ohio

    Buzzard Roost Trail

    4.31 mi / 581 ft gain
    Owned and operated by The Nature Conservancy, Ohio's Edge of Appalachia Preserve is home to over 19,000 acres of protected wilderness and rugged Appalachian terrain. And the greatest prize of the preserve is none other than the Buzzards Roost.Perched atop a slab of resistant limestone roughly 500...
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  • West Union, Ohio

    Floods Point Overlook via Joan Jones Portman Trail

    1.6 mi / 420 ft gain
    Located right off the road next to an old shed, across the road from the main pavilion and barn, the trailhead for the Joan Jones Portman Trail winds upwards 0.8 miles one way across a creek and through a narrow section of prairie clinging to the hillsides of Southern Ohio. This is one of the ste...
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