Name: West Woods Hike
Start: 2025-08-09T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-08-09T17:00:00-04:00
Location: The West Woods

**FINAL UPDATE (8/9):** It will be pushing 90 today so we will definitely need to keep it cool. I want to skip Punderson since it is mostly in the open with very little shade. Let's stay in the natural air conditioning of the West Woods. Remember to bring water. If you end up in the SECOND parking lot, you can wait there and we will swing by and pick you up. See you all at 1:00!

**HIGHLIGHTS:** I've been told that we don't do enough events on the eastside, so let's head that way and check out one of it's best parks - The West Woods in Newbury. The 902-acre preserve is home to Ansel's Cave - a sandstone ledge similar to others in the area, but a little smaller in scale. It is accessed by a 1.8 mile loop trail that takes you all the way around the cliff. The ledges themselves are off-limits to visitors and must be viewed from a platform. The trail has a total elevation gain of 209 feet, but is wide and hard gravel and not at all difficult. We will be doing it at a leisure pace of no more than 3MPH.

Afterwards, some of us may want to head to Zeppe's Tavern & Pizzeria in Newbury to relax with some drinks and an early dinner.

**FUN FACT:** The metal dome we will be seeing at West Woods is the largest open-air geodesic dome in the world built in 1959. Some people that drive by it think a flying saucer has landed!

**PARKING INFO:** The parking lot where we will meet is at the West Woods Nature Center - .4 miles down the main park road on the RIGHT. It holds over 80 cars, but if that lot is full you will need to drive another 600 feet past the Nature Center down the main park road to the lot at the END of that road (there are 2 picnic shelters there). If you end up at that lot, please wait there for the rest of us to come by and pick you up. We will meet at the Nature Center at 1:00 - I will be wearing a Meetup sign.

The West Woods: https://www.geaugaparkdistrict.org/park/the-west-woods
9465 Kinsman Rd, Novelty, OH 44072

Zeppe's Tavern & Pizzeria: https://zeppestavern.com/newbury
11110 Kinsman Rd, Newbury Township, OH 44065

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