How Can You Find That Hike's Starting Point?

New members often have trouble finding a hike's starting point, and even experienced members can have trouble with a rarely used place. To help, Bill Miller and some friends have compiled a list of the latitude and longitude of more than 200 places where hikes start. You can use these values by putting them into your car's GPS as a place to drive to, or you can put them into a web site like MapQuest and get detailed directions on how to drive to the hike start. To use this, you should first read some comments on GPS formats, and some instructions on using latitude and longitude with a GPS, or instructions on using latitude and longitude to get driving directions with Google Maps, Bing Maps or Mapquest. Then check out the list of latitudes and longitudes .

Hike Maps

Of course many hikers prefer maps over GPS instructions. These hikers will like the following links to maps that are on websites of the Cuyahoga MetroParks, the Cuyahoga National Park, and the Lake County MetroParks. These can be a valuable aid for finding the meeting place for hikes in the parks. Here are some links:

Cleveland Metro Parks:
Bedford Reservation
Big Creek Reservation
Brecksville Reservation
Euclid Creek Reservation
Hinkley Reservation
Mill Stream Run Reservation
North Chagrin Reservation
Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation
Rocky River Reservation (South)
Rocky River Reservation (North)
South Chagrin Reservation

Cuyahoga Valley National Park (Map Page)

Lake County Metroparks (Select a Park)

Pete Kenney has compiled a list of all the CHC hike for both 2010 and 2011 in a searchable document for each year:

Click here to open the hike list for 2011.

Click here to open the hike list for 2010.