Old Man's Cave - Hocking Hills State Park Hiking Area
Cliffs and waterfalls and towering hemlocks line the trail. Huge rock formations are never more than a stone's throw away and awesome bridges will take your breath away.
Directions: From Logan, Ohio: Take 664
South 12 miles to park. Old Man's Cave is located just off State
Route 664 across from the tiered parking lot at Hocking Hills State Park.
Within a stones throw is the Naturalist Log Cabin and the newly renovated
Hocking Hills State Park Visitor Center. Interesting things to look for:
Old Man's Cave was aptly named for an early settler, Richard Rowe,
who set up living quarters in one of the many recess caves in the area after
the Civil War. Killed by an accidental blast of his own gun, it is said
local native Indians buried him somewhere near the entrance of the Cave.
Take a guess where he is allegedly buried in one of the recess caves of
the park. Devil's Bathtub-a churning tub of water spilling into the creek
below. Waterfalls, waterfalls, waterfalls. Sphinx Head-at the far end of
the trail, a rock formation taking the form of a sphinx head.
Length: Old Man's Cave is approximately 1 mile long and takes about an hour to hike.
