Hocking+Hills+State+Park

Also, see Hocking Hills Important Bird Area
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Hocking County
=Hocking Hills State Park= 19852 OH-664 South Logan, Ohio 43138 Hocking Hills State Park website Hocking Hills State Park map Athens Area Outdoor Recreation Guide Hocking Hills State Park

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Hocking Hills SP
Coordinates: 39.43732, -82.53768 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Ash Cave
Coordinates: 39.3984141, -82.54318 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Campground
Coordinates: 39.4328453, -82.5380945 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Cantwell Cliffs
Coordinates: 39.5395449, -82.5761068 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Cedar Falls
Coordinates: 39.4179609, -82.5249517 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Old Mans Cave
Coordinates: 39.436728, -82.540562 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Rock House
Coordinates: 39.496867, -82.6203847 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Hocking Hills SP--Whispering Cave and Lodge
Coordinates: 39.4248565, -82.5516558 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Hocking Hills area
From Ohio Ornithological Society website

About Hocking Hills State Park
The natural history of this region is as fascinating as the caves are beautiful. Here, in these sandstones and shales, one can read Ohio's history from the rocks. The scenic features of the six areas of the Hocking Hills State Park complex are carved in the Blackhand sandstone. This bedrock was deposited more than 350 million years ago as a delta in the warm shallow sea which covered Ohio at that time. Subsequent millions of years of uplift and stream erosion created the awesome beauty seen today. The sandstone varies in composition and hardness from softer, loosely cemented middle zone to harder top and bottom layers. The recess caves at Ash Cave, Old Mans Cave, and Cantwell Cliffs are all carved in the softer middle zone. Weathering and erosion widened cracks found in the middle layer of sandstone at the Rock House to create that unusual formation.

Other features of the rock include cross-bedding, honeycomb weathering, and slump blocks. The first is noticeable as diagonal lines in the rock intersecting horizontal ones. It is actually the cross section of an ancient sandbar in the delta and was caused by changing ocean currents. Honeycomb weathering looks like the small holes in a beehive comb. They are formed by differential weathering which comes about when water, moving down through the permeable sandstone, washes out small pockets of loosely cemented sand grains. Finally, the huge slump blocks of rock littering the streams tumble from nearby cliffs when cracks widen to the extent that the block is no longer supported by the main cliff.

Although the glaciers never reached the park areas, their influence is still seen here in the form of the vegetation growing in the gorges. The glaciers changed the climate of all Ohio to a moist, cool environment. Upon their retreat, this condition persisted only in a few places such as the deep gorges of Hocking County. Therefore, the towering eastern hemlocks, the Canada yew and the yellow and black birch tell of a cool period 10,000 years ago. From Hocking Hills State Park website



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