In 1891 a local attorney, Volney Rogers, started buying property along Mills Creek near Youngstown, Ohio with the intention of turning it over to city to be used as a public park. Today it's an eight mile long linear park with an ornamental garden, lakes, ponds, wetlands, an historic mill, a nature center, a golf course, hiking trails, and biking trails
We visited the south end of the park to walk/roll along the East Golf Hike and Bike. The trail is a closed road so it's very wide and in good condition. Since the land has been parkland for over 100 years it's forested and shady with little noise from traffic. It's 1.5 miles one way, almost level, and very accessible.
The parking lot is small but short RVs will fit. There isn't any parking available for oversized vehicles. Trail 41.02496, -80.69302
Another good guy who wanted to give back to the people and the universe. Thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be a common theme in this part of the country. Maybe it was just that people were making so much money during the Industrial Revolution that they couldn't spend it all.
DeleteExcept some of these guys were "robber barons!"
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