Cascade+Valley+Park

Also, see Cuyahoga River-Lower Important Bird Area
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Summit County
=Cascade Valley Park= 837 Cuyahoga Street Akron, Ohio 44313 Cascade Valley Park webpage Cascade Valley Park brochure and trail map

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Cascade Valley Park
Coordinates: 41.1213275, -81.5221167 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Cascade Valley Park
In 2015 a Bank Swallow nesting colony was observed on the Overlook Trail at this park. From Elizabeth Szabat

About Cascade Valley Park
In 1833, the hydraulic engineer and entrepreneur Eliakim Crosby built the Cascade Race, a waterway that powered the mills and businesses along the Ohio & Erie Canal. The Cascade Race helped transform Akron into a boomtown. Years later, Crosby built the failed Chuckery Race; traces of it can still be seen in this Metro Park.

Today, fish here are prey for belted kingfishers and great blue or green-backed herons. Beautiful white trillium grows in the floodplain woods each spring beside wild ginger and several types of violets. Summer and fall wildflowers also flourish, illuminating the landscape.

Several rare and unique natural features can be found within the Chuckery Area. South of the entrance drive, near the intersection of the Chuckery Trail, is a meadow that harbors many unusual plants and several species of showy wildflowers. Just up the hill from the meadow is a prairie, where wild lupines bloom about mid-May. Other rare species can be found individually throughout the park, including butternut trees – a species surviving despite the butternut canker disease threatening their range. Less conspicuous, but no less rare, are crinkled hair grass, satin brome, and southern hairy rock cress. From Cascade Valley Park webpage



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