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Backpacker Magazine Columbus: Clifton Gorge 

Watch the Little Miami River transform from calm to violent in a deep limestone chasm on this 5.2-mile dayhike in John Bryan State Park.


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Author: Backpacker Magazine
Date: 22 May 2006 6:57:09 PM
Activity: Hiking
State: Ohio (OH)
Distance: 2.6 mi  (Change units)
Survey Elevation: Total Gain: 340 ft
Total Loss: 378 ft
Net Change: -38 ft
Difficulty: 6 / 10
Tags: John Bryan State Park, Columbus, Ohio, Yellow Springs, Waterfall Hikes
Rating:   5 rating(s) Rate it

TO TRAILHEAD: I-70 W to US 68 S. In 6.5 mi. turn L onto OH 343. In 1 mi. enter park and take first L. Road deadends at parking lot.

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CGT01

Dist: 2.60 mi Points: 462
Time: none Speed: 0.0 mph Pace: 0:00 / mi
Clifton Gorge Canyon Trail

Points of Interest

CGT001

Location: 39.785049°, -83.863861°
Head on the E-bound trail, down the stone stairs and around a prompt bend in the Little Miami River

CGT002

Location: 39.785927°, -83.861053°
Turn R; cross footbridge and watch great blue herons float the calm currents

CGT003

Location: 39.785580°, -83.860298°
Head L onto heavily wooded S bank, choked with oaks and the giant peeling trunks of sycamores

CGT004

Location: 39.789146°, -83.847458°
Canyon walls constrict and grow taller, forcing the river to crash over man-sized boulders

CGT005

Location: 39.790871°, -83.841072°
Cross bridge then R @ T onto a historic stagecoach route that once ran from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh

CGT006

Location: 39.793152°, -83.839752°
A waterfall cascades roughly 55 ft., providing a gentle sparge for riverside Jack-in-the-pulpits and tri-petal snow trilliums

CGT007

Location: 39.795952°, -83.836243°
R@ Y; flocks of geese typically swarm the hemlock-shaded southern slopes

CGT008

Location: 39.797047°, -83.835335°
Steamboat Rock on L: Nicknamed for its rectangular underbelly and smokestack-shaped top

CGT009

Location: 39.799210°, -83.834488°
Climb stairs above a raging gorge then veer L onto The Narrow's Trail along a cliff edge to Darnell's Leap, where a gutsy member of Daniel Boone's outfit escaped Indian pursuers by jumping the chasm's dizzy 22 ft. expanse

CGT010

Location: 39.797401°, -83.829231°
The roar of battling waters swooshes up the steep, tight walls; backtrack to car

Little Miami River

Location: 39.789467°, -83.844696°
©Ohio Division of Natural Areas & Preserves

Clifton Gorge

Location: 39.799316°, -83.835007°
©Ohio Division of Natural Areas & Preserves

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