State uses Portage County park to promote Ohio tourism

Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is featured successful a commercialized promoting tourism successful Ohio.

The video features a household throwing a dart astatine a map, deciding to spell connected abrogation wherever the dart lands. When it lands connected Ohio, the household visits Headlands Beach State Park successful Mentor, Put-In-Bay, Mill Creek Park successful Youngstown, Brass Eye successful Columbus, Aullwood Audubon successful Dayton, the Christmas Story location successful Cleveland and the End of Appalachia Preserve successful West Union, successful summation to Nelson Ledges.

While the parkland is located successful Nelson, it is depicted successful the video arsenic Garrettsville, which is its mailing address.

Trustee: Tourists filling authorities park

Nelson Trustee Anna Mae VanDerHoeven said the authorities of Ohio is making a large effort to beforehand tourism successful its authorities park.

Trustees, she said, were among the archetypal to sojourn a solid walkway that opened implicit Memorial Day play aft 2 years of construction.

The 137-foot walkway goes implicit Sylvan Creek Gorge successful the park, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources states connected its website. Those walking implicit the span tin spot the h2o 50 feet below. The walkway ends successful a level overlooking Minnehaha Falls.

ODNR precocious told WEWS Channel 5 successful Cleveland that the span was 1 of the astir antithetic structures ever constructed successful a authorities park.

VanDerHoeven recalls having immoderate sticker daze implicit the $1.68 cardinal outgo erstwhile she visited.

"You could provender a batch of radical oregon service a batch of veterans with that money," she said.

She said the place is "just gorgeous."

Since the span was dedicated, a schoolhouse autobus of students from James A. Garfield Local Schools visited the trail, and 1 antheral told her helium visited from Wisconsin. The privately owned Nelson Ledges Quarry Park has enactment up a motion to fto visitors cognize that it's not the authorities park, VanDerHoeven said.

The state, she said, besides featured the parkland successful a authorities mag to beforehand tourism.

"It has attracted truthful galore people," she said.

But those people, VanDerHoeven added, indispensable question to Garrettsville oregon Middlefield successful Geauga County to drawback a wound to devour oregon sojourn immoderate businesses.

"It brings radical to the township, but we don't get thing retired of it," she said. "We conscionable get the traffic."

Reporter Diane Smith tin beryllium reached astatine [email protected].

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Record-Courier: State uses Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park to beforehand Ohio tourism