Hocking Hills

Cabins at Cedar Grove Lodging, like most cabin and lodge rentals in Ohio’s Hocking Hills, come fully furnished with modern amenities.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

A tiny museum outside the Hocking Hills Welcome Center houses a local man’s collection of pencil sharpeners.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Lisa Jarrell, one of four workers at the Columbus Washboard Factory, assembles a washboard for visitors taking the factory tour in Logan, Ohio.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

A 90-foot waterfall spills over a cliff at one end of Ash Cave in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Ash Cave, the largest recess cave east of the Mississippi River, lies an easy quarter-mile walk from a parking area in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Streams running through valleys in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park merge at a steep gorge to form Cedar Falls.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Hikers walk down into a leafy canyon in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park. The park is divided into six noncontiguous areas in Hocking County southeast of Columbus, Ohio.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Making moonshine is now a legal activity in the Hocking Hills, a slice of Appalachia in southeast Ohio.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Waterfalls and streams flow toward Old Man’s Cave in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Ma and pa diners serve down-home cooking in Ohio’s Hocking Hills. Sandy Sue’s Silver Diner is open every day in Rockbridge.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

A hermit made his home under the massive overhang of Old Man’s Cave giving the popular feature in Ohio’s Hocking Hills State Park its name.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)

Cabins at the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls are rustic on the outside, luxurious on the inside.  (Katherine Rodeghier / Chicago Tribune)