Here the Cuyahoga River twists through rock-strewn forests, undulating hills and pastoral farmland. If this all seems like an unlikely setting for a national park, you’ll understand when you’re on the park’s 125+ miles of trails. My first pick is Ohio’s only national park, wrapped in suburbs between Cleveland and Akron, so it’s easy to dip in and out. Cuyahoga Valley National Park Source: Zack Frank / shutterstock Cuyahoga Valley National Park My list of Ohio’s most beautiful places also features a lot of man-made entries, like an amusement park on a sandy peninsula, an opulent Gilded Age mansion, and a huge pre-Columbian earthwork effigy. There’s something beautiful to be discovered in every corner, from the picture-perfect tourist islands in Lake Erie to the striking river gorges around Hocking Hills, the Cuyahoga Valley and Yellow Springs. With the shore of Lake Erie in the north, glaciated plains in the west and the foothills of the Applachians in the east and southeast, it’s easy to see Ohio as a kind of crossroads. Ohio’s slogan is the “Heart of it All”, partly because the state looks a bit like a heart, but also because it sits within a one-day of half of North America’s entire population.
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