Lake View Cemetery: A Cleveland Treasure

The Cleveland Ohio Skyline, from the Garfield Monument

A cemetery seems like an odd place to visit for fun, but Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery is brimming with points of interest. The cemetery contains the monument to James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States. It also contains the Wade Chapel, which was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, containing a gorgeous Tiffany window and mosaics.  There is also a huge dam inside the cemetery that many people don’t know about.  It seems well hidden – if something that size can be hidden at all! Scenes from Captain America: The Winter Soldier were filmed on the dam and other spots in the cemetery.

Best of all, the view of the City of Cleveland from the balcony of the Garfield Monument is probably the best in the county and is worth the climb up the spiral stairs to the balcony.

Lake View Cemetery is a spectacular place to visit in the spring when the flowers and trees are in bloom, but it is also lovely in the fall when the trees change color. Having a pleasant weather day, we decided to take a short trip there.  As we’ve been to the cemetery before and have seen the grave sites of many famous people such as John D. Rockefeller and Eliot Ness, we spent all our time at the Garfield Monument, the Wade Chapel, and the dam. Here are a few photos for your enjoyment. (Click on any image for a larger view.)

Garfield Monument

Wade Chapel

Lake View Dam

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Autumn at Mohican State Park in Ohio

This past week, we visited Mohican State Park in Loudonville, Ohio so my husband could do some fly fishing. The fall color was slightly past peak, but it still made for some lovely photos. We spent most of our time near the covered bridge where my husband fished in the Clear Fork River. Unlike the last time he fished the Clear Fork at Mohican in June, the fishing this time was awful. Based on the river water levels from the day before and the day he fished, it is likely that water was released from the Pleasant Hill Dam. The increase in the water flow often causes the fish to hide. And hide they did!

Despite my husband having a less than successful time fishing, I had a great time taking photos. Here are a few. (Click on any image for a larger view.) A short video is also below.

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Autumn at Tinkers Creek Gorge in Bedford, Ohio

One of my favorite locations to view fall colors is at the overlook at Tinker’s Creek Gorge in the Bedford Reservation, which is part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and also part of the Cleveland Metroparks system. The sky was bright and the colors were bold! Here’s a photo - click on the image for a larger view. 

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Fall at Chapin Forest in the Lake Metroparks

The fall color is starting to peak, and the weather was dry (but cool),  so it was a perfect time to take a short hike through the Chapin Forest in Kirtland Ohio, part of the Lake County Metroparks. Here are two photos taken at the overlook, looking west toward the city of Cleveland, Ohio.

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