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Hocking Hills Ohio / Michigan Trip May 8-11th 2025

Thursday May 8th

Leave by noon  6.5 hour drive to all of places around Hocking Hills so will arrive one hour before sunset depending on stops.

Sunset and Ghost Hunt at Moonville Tunnel?  https://www.ravenwoodcastle.com/2015/07/14/legends-lore-moonville-tunnel/

Friday May 9th

Old Man’s Cave – best place but most steps

Cedar falls – 2nd easiest

Ash Cave – easiest hike

Rockhouse

Table Top Rock (never been to it before) park here 39.458889, -82.558472

From the parking lot, cross Big Pine Road toward the Climbing and Rappelling area. Do not follow the first bridle trail you see. Cross the footbridge over Big Pine Creek and you will see a registration kiosk for those who are climbing. At the kiosk, follow the bridle trail to the left and that will take you to the rock after some climbing. I believe the distance from the parking lot is about three-fourths mile. The Table Top Rock can be a little hard to find even when you are in the vicinity because it is actually below a small cliff. As you climb up the bridle trail, you will eventually come to a relatively flat plateau at the top of a ridge. You will see a number of hitching posts for horses. When you reach that point, go to the edge of the cliff and look down and you will see the Table Rock. It isn’t small, just somewhat hidden and below where you will be standing.

Rockbridge State Preserve if time allows

 

Leave by 3pm for 1.5 hours  Mothman Museum open 10-6pm

400 Main St, Point Pleasant, WV 25550

 

 

 

Dinner options

5 mins to Tutors Biscuit World  (quicker)

7 AM–2 PM

2322 Jackson Ave, Point Pleasant, WV 25550

Or

20 minutes  to Original Bob Evans Farm Restaurant and Museum eat for dinner

Open 7am to 9pm

791 Farmview Rd, Bidwell, OH 45614

 

Maybe but probably not for graves

Tu-Endie-Wei State Park

“Mad Anne” Bailey

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10517103/anne-bailey

Chief Cornstalk’s Grave 38.834729, -82.131520

 

Pioneer Cemetery Point Pleasant

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/4973/samuel-croley

 

1.25 hours to Maybe Oak Grove Cemetery  (first town in Ohio)

800 Washington St, Marietta, OH 45750

 

Need to leave by 6pm from dinner place for 2.75 hours to Ohio State Reformatory ghost hunt or 3 hours from Mt. pleasant

  • Mini Ghost Hunt: 10 pm – 2 am: 2x Adult

Saturday May 10th

20 mins to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

10 AM–5 PM

1100 E 9th St, Cleveland, OH 44114

 

Walk next door to NASA Glenn Visitor Center
10 AM–5 PM

601 Erieside Ave, Cleveland, OH 44114

 

Edgewater Park with a Cleveland sign with skyline behind it

Park on Lake Erie featuring a yacht club, beaches, a fishing pier, picnic areas & more. 41.48728865098017, -81.74950459457806

Sunday May 11th

 

Drone shots of Detroit maybe of Detroit skyline and of Belle isle island  Lake St. Clair is nearby hotel

Motown Museum open 10-8pm

2648 W Grand Blvd, Detroit, MI 48208

1 hour to https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200547902/max-wright  42.813079, -83.771309

 

1 hour to Grass Lake West Cemetery

1501 Wolf Lake Rd, Grass Lake, MI 49240

42.24610, -84.21830

 

40 mins to Dinner at moonraker in Battle creek for fried walleye and yellow perch? https://www.moonrakerrestaurant.com/restaurant/menu

or 2 hours to Chicago food at Portillo’s Ft. Wayne open until 11pm
https://order.portillos.com/menu/portillos-ft-wayne/

Kokomo, IN

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/267/james-dean 40.434157, -85.645547

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9374147/elwood-haynes 40.497989, -86.115325

 

Ikea 11400 IKEA Wy, Fishers, IN 46037 10-7pm on Sunday , Portillo’s and Meijer near by too