Independence, Ohio Travel Information

Akron and Cleveland, Ohio, and the Cuyahoga Valley Tranquil, stream-fed Chippewa Lake provides the setting for an outstanding country dining establishment, the Oaks Lodge. Eight acres of tall trees surround this rambling former estate, which rests a s... Cleveland, OH

Cleveland Ohio’s second-largest city, once jokingly referred to as the “mistake by the lake,” is having the last laugh these days. Around the country a number of urban planners and envious city officials are po... Cleveland, OH

Cleveland, Ohio Forget the jokes about the Cuyahoga River catching fire and the city’s default. Forget the scores of derisive monikers. Cleveland provides an affordable and diverse getaway in any season. It’s a year-... Cleveland, OH

Cleveland: Other Signs of Life You’ve seen the T-shirt, right? A picture of a road sign: PITTSBURGH, 143 MILES. Underneath, the words: THE ONLY SIGN OF LIFE IN CLEVELAND. Pittsburgh and Cleveland squabble like kid cousins at a fami... Cleveland, OH

Cleveland: Renaissance in the Rust Belt Ohio’s second-largest city, once jokingly referred to as “the mistake by the lake,” is having the last laugh these days. Urban pioneers and envious city officials around the country—and especially in ... Cleveland, OH

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Garfield Park Reservation (Distance: 3.8 mi) Garfield Park Reservation is rich in both history and features. The nature center on the park’s eastern side offers a wide variety of educational programs; on the west, a solar-system walk provides hi...

Garfield Heights, OH - Hiking - length:2 mi

Bridal Veil Falls and Tinker's Creek Gorge (Distance: 4.4 mi) Ohio’s grandest canyon, carved by Tinker’s Creek, was almost spoiled in the mid-1960s.Thanks to concerned citizens, today you can peer into the nearly 200-foot deep gorge and enjoy its cascades and wa...

Bedford, OH - Hiking - length:2 mi

My Mountain Trail and More (Distance: 5.4 mi) These two, short, complementary hikes in Cleveland Metropark’s Brecksville Reservation give visitors a good leg-stretching and several picture-perfect views. Prairie fields, a vernal pond, and a thinn...

Garfield Heights, OH - Hiking - length:2.25 mi

Cuyahoga River (Distance: 5.5 mi) The Upper Cuyahoga has good pike and smallmouth fishing. The Cuyahoga will never live down its reputation as the river that caught fire, but the river in Cuyahoga Valley National Park and at it headwa...

Cleveland, OH - Fishing - length:unknown

Beaver Marsh Boardwalk (Distance: 5.8 mi) This area was a garbage dump in the 1970s. Beginning in the early 1980s, beaver (also known as “park engineers”) transformed the dump into a viable habitat, and not only for themselves. Today the area...

Cleveland, OH - Hiking - length:5.5 mi

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Astorhurst Astorhurst Country Club Public, 18 holes 6083 yards, par 71 3.2 miles from center of Independence, Ohio

Ridgewood Ridgewood Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 6049 yards, par 70 4.9 miles from center of Independence, Ohio

Washington Washington Golf Learning Center Municipal, 9 holes 1486 yards, par 29 5.2 miles from center of Independence, Ohio

Regulation Shawnee Hills Golf Course Municipal, 18 holes 6175 yards, par 71 5.3 miles from center of Independence, Ohio

Par-3 Shawnee Hills Golf Course Municipal, 9 holes 1293 yards, par 27 5.3 miles from center of Independence, Ohio

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