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
Calories: none
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