Nov 10th Southeast Ohio ride, anyone?

[Chuck78]

Airplane Rock viewed from further down the rim trail of Conkle's Hollow Gorge


Ash Cave again, lower water level, but people to put the cliffs' sheer size in perspective


Cedar Falls - great falls and sheer cliffs in the downstream gorge - nice long hike connects to Old Man's Cave


Rock House - cool cave running parallel to the cliff faces back inside the cliffs, ends overlooking a little waterfall off some tall cliffs above

[Chuck78]

Rockbridge waterfall


Rockbridge


Cantwell Cliffs? Couldn't find a ton of images of that cool place


Cantwell Cliffs again I believe?





Cave at Conkle's Hollow


Awesome photoblog around Conkle's Hollow, please click - http://www.kellymariataylor.com/tag/conkles-hollow/

Conkle's Hollow gorge trail


Conkle's Hollow gorge trail, double falls:


TONS, literally 60-100, of private cabin rentals in the area. It's the staple of the economy for many landowners in the region:

[Chuck78]

Oh yeah, very twisty scenic roads are plentiful in this area as well...


^ Clear Creek Rd above and below


Car and Driver Magazine cites Ohio State Route 78 as one of the most scenic highways nationwide, and has used the "Rim of the World" section around Burr Oak Lake as a testing grounds


...to put the area on a twisties pedestal, Road and Track Magazine did their Performance Car of the Year Shootout in Hocking Hills!
Hard to find other twisty roads pictures of the area.

[Chuck78]

Decent video of two fellas on sport bikes blazing through parts of 664-56-374 in Hocking, ending going downhill on my favorite hillclimb southbound on the north end of Route 374
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIyyapKw0oY




more images... can you tell it's winter, and I'm going through outdoor recreation withdrawal???

secret location, my favorite backwoods hike


Climbing near Conkle's Hollow




View from Airplane Rock at Conkle's Hollow Rim Trail


off Big Pine Rd, maybe this is Hunter's Rock?

[Chuck78]

The links don't work anymore because Google keeps "updating"/downgrading their online mapping capabilities... I will translate them to the new Google formats as I have time later this year. In the meantime, email me for good directions like in my posted map screenshots, or take the raw map url's & read the road names & GPS coordinates coded into the URL's map it yourself

[storm 64]

Hey Chuck, I'm using your map routes today. I'm in Marietta now working my way to Columbus. I found some great roads yesterday but I was caught in rain to really enjoy them...

[Chuck78]

AWESOME! 676 is nice near Marietta &:near 555. 555 to 78 then west to 13s to 685w to 78 again..GREAT route! 377 is also a very fun alternate to 555, easier and for many, more enjoyable. Nonstop sweepers&hills. 555 is very tight & technical in places, but not as enjoyable for me as other more flowing tight technical roads. If you get to cut thru the Hockng Hills area, you will be on some great roads! Holiday weekend means lots more tourist traffic though.

I hope the map routes remained intact since the new Google format changes. They only allow 8 or so destinations now, so my old maps with 26 destinations get all jumbled up with missing points & alternate Google decided routes

[Chuck78]

536 the "Ohio Dragon" is unrideable now due to all the heavy weight fracking trucks ruining the pavement. 255 is rideable but getting rough (bummer, great fun road). 536 is scheduled for repaving in 2017.
78 is showing signs of cracking and age but still very rideable, scheduled for repaving late summer 2015. all of 278 & much of 56, just got repaved, as well as others.

So roads deep into SE OH around 26 & south are under heavy use by fracking trucks & equipment and going downhill, but roads north & west of Marietta are getting repaved before they even need it, good news for the areas closer to Nelsonville/Hocking Hills/Lancaster/Columbus! Shame for 255 & 536...

26 is still good, Beatnic just rode it from PA to the Red River Gorge. Just north if 26, Dalzell & Germantown rd's just got repaved.

I've also been working east of Columbus now and exploring roads near Zanesville & Coshocton. Some good stuff out that way as well, less traffic than the Hocking Hills area as there aren't much in the way of amazing cliffs & waterfalls to attract hikers & sightseers. 60 from 16 tokillbuck, 541 both sides of Coshocton especially west to 79. Pinecrest. Eight Street Rd, etc... 93 from 541 to 208, very awesome enjoyable cruise for all types if riders, NORM - GREAT ROUTE FOR YOU TO VISIT COLUMBUS - on the way & very pleasant!