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table of Contents

4 Traditional Bows and Arrows by daniel Karell

8 Standfast Outdoors by Jeff Barnett

14 Hunting Safety Tips by Scott Cartwright

16 Backpacking21 Best parks in which to camp by tom Cross

22 Backcountry Assassins coming to a TV near you

24 Best places to hike in Adams County

by tom Cross

30 Cincinnati Nature Center

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By daniel Karell

“Building bows is a series of pitfalls.” Bill Dunn’s job for the last 10 years has been making bows and arrows from scratch by hand, avoiding a multitude of hurdles in the creation of these crafts on a day-by-day basis. Dunn, who’s wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and a short but unkempt beard, currently builds Zipper bows and Grizzly broadheads, and he owns both labels.

The bows sell on his company’s website for anywhere from $600 to $1,500, and he ships them as far east as China, as far west as Hawaii, and seemingly everywhere in between.

But while a bow and arrow may seem as easy to put together as an Apple Pie on a warm August day, the process to build the perfect product takes not only time, but the utmost precision.

“You’re just constantly trying to avoid those pitfalls,” Bow limbs prior to being sanded and shaped.

Bill dunn of Brown County holds a hand-made bow he constructed, one of many that he’s made over the last 10 years since he bought the Zipper bow brand.

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dunn holds a riser in his hands.

limbs hanging in dunn’s workshop.

Arrows before becoming broadheads.

dunn keeps a list of all his bow’s measurements in a notebook to use when he gets a repeat order.

Dunn, 39, said outside his barn in Sterling Township in Brown County, which operates as his workshop. “There’s so many places you can go wrong but if you can keep avoiding all those spots and correct you’ve got a good bow.

“Sometimes I’ve taken some pretty good stuff and cut it in half, because it’s just not going to be right.”

Humans have been using bows and arrows to hunt for thousands of years. In fact, according to research con-ducted by professors with the University of Tübingen in Germany and the Uni-versity of Johannesburg in South Africa, there’s evi-dence to show humans used bows and arrows 64,000 years ago.

But in the years since, the bow and arrow went from the most popular hunting instrument to one that’s been relegated to the side-lines in favor of rifles and other firearms. A 2011 study

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by the U.S. Census bureau found that 13.7 million Americans use firearms to hunt, compared to 4.5 mil-lion using bows and arrows.

However, the bow and arrow seems to be making a bit of a comeback these days.

Using new technology to add carbon in the risers and limbs of the bows, the equip-ment has become even more lighter and accurate when firing at a target.

“The stability is so great with it,” Dunn said. “If I’m shooting and I twist my fingers out or I make a poor release, that carbon has the extra stability to stabilize that limb faster and get the string going straight, which equals better performance.

“Plus, there’s better shoot-ability, which is also another aspect of performance, because it’s going to be more accurate the faster it lines up, gets straight, and sends the arrow down range faster. With the carbon, it’s so stable that I don’t believe you can intentionally twist a limb. What that lets me do is build a much more radical limb and it’s still more stable than a wood limb.”

Dunn has been into bow and arrow hunting since he was a teenager. While in high school, he cut down Osage trees nearby and made his own self bow out of it, as he couldn’t afford the manufactured bows used by more experienced hunt-ers.

He then met Zipper found-er Bob Thompson after graduating high school at shooting events, and Dunn said he always displayed a love for the Zipper bow brand.

“My wife (Tracy) got tired of hearing me talk about how great these Zipper bows were so she said ‘order the

dang thing’, so I ended up getting my first one,” Dunn said.

Two years later, Dunn pur-chased another Zipper bow from Thompson and eventual-ly developed enough of a rela-tionship to work with Thomp-son as Thompson was prepar-ing to retire. Dunn spent four or five days in Brown County shoeing horses, before driving to West Virginia to work with Thompson in his shop.

“Finally after about six months of that, I took it over and brought everything here,” said Dunn.

According to Dunn, it’s a two week process from start to finish to build a bow. He starts with about four risers and sets of limbs at a time, but he said inevitably, one of them is dropped to the next two-week cycle.

The risers need to be cut into shape, potentially with other elements added to them, sanded, and then applied with as many as ten layers of finish. For the limbs, it’s even more complicated, as they need to be sanded, then shaped to the riser and be of equal length and weight on both sides of the riser so that the string holds tight.

The broadheads meanwhile need to be sanded, finished, and grinded so that it’s sharp on both sides.

“The Grizzly is a single-bevel head,” Dunn said. “In the single bevel, what it does is, when it meets resistance, that thing is going to twist and turn.

“When it meets resistance, there’s pressure pushing against this bevel and that bevel,” explains Dunn, while demonstrating how the arrow spins,” so it will twist when it meets some material. If you have a heavy enough arrow, instead of trying to force through that bone, it will split through that bone.”

Despite the new technol-ogy, Dunn considers himself a traditionalist. He hunts with a wood bow and arrow, which means that he has to usually be within ten yards of a target on a hunt in order to make an accurate shot.

Or in his words, “I want them close enough that I can smell them.”

He sees the use of tradi-tional wood bow and arrows as a progression, from begin-ning hunting with firearms, to challenging yourself more with a carbon composite bow, to using a wooden bow, which raises the hunting challenge even more.

Even with the lure of com-puters and video games keep-ing children inside and away from learning hunting tech-niques, Dunn isn’t worried about hunters going extinct.

“Hunting’s not going to go away. We are hunters when we’re born. The biggest thing that we say a million times is just getting kids into it, but we are hunters. That’s why kids play hide and seek, that’s why they’re out there catching grasshoppers. We just have to make sure that the kids real-ize the reason they’re playing the games they’re playing.”

Dunn also said that more respect should be paid to all animals, and that new hunters shouldn’t be focused on tag-ging the biggest buck of the year.

“An old, smart, doe, is just as intelligent or more during the rut than any buck out there,” Dunn said. “And also, consider the effort you put into the hunt in correlation to the trophy that you take away. If you hunt hard and you find that smart, old doe, or whatever it is, it’s more rewarding.”

Daniel Karell is a content producer for the Georgetown News Democrat and the Ripley Bee. Reach him at dkarell@civitasmedia.com

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By daniel Karell

Outdoorsmen and women who feel the call of God and the call of nature can now put the two together.

In 2008, a step-father and son duo, Al Atkins and Evan Crowley, started StandFast Outdoors, an organization with both hunting and faith in mind. StandFast started with the pa d out with two guys that loved to hunt and go out, and they decided one day to film themselves,” StandFast member Jeff Bar-nett said. “They enjoyed it so much they came to Steve Ellis and I and asked us if we wanted to join in and turn it into something a little bit more.”

The group, which includes many members of the Gos-hen Church of God, is now up to ten people and continu-ing to expand. In addition to the hunting, they do outreach work in the community to

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help people who have fallen on hard times, as well as give today’s youth an opportunity to experience nature in an intimate setting.

Every year, StandFast has sponsored one or two fami-lies in the area and will buy Christmas presents for the children, for example. This past October, the group par-ticipated in an event benefit-ting homeless veterans in Kentucky, who are bussed to a location and given free food, a check up from the doctor, and an opportunity to chat with a lawyer if they have any litigation they’d like to pursue.`

“We do outreach in the community,” Barnett said. “We take underprivileged kids hunting, adults that have fallen on hard times, and we do some fundraisers during the year. The kids may not have had fathers around or they’ve fallen on hard times. We’ve also taken some handi-capped adults.

“The main goal and purpose has been to reach people and introduce them to God through the things we know best which is hunting and fishing,” Barnett added.

Barnett said that they do approximately two fishing trips a year, and they’ll take one or two kids at a time out either on a boat or on a hunt. They also prefer to mostly use bows and arrows when hunting, whether it’s wild turkey or deer season. The group will usually pair one child with two adults, but they’ve even had up to four people hunting together at a time.

It also isn’t only open to men. Barnett said that many of the member’s wives have come along on hunting trips, and they’ve taken young women as well to teach them how to hunt in the outdoors.

One of the children that has been a regular partici-

pant in the group’s hunting trips has even taken to the filming aspect of the group, and has played a big role in producing their new online series.

“We do all our own edit-ing. We’ve got the equipment to produce a TV show if we wanted,” Barnett said, hint-ing that they could move to TV in the future.

When StandFast mem-bers go out to hunt, they head to properties owned by members in Ross, Pike, and Clermont Counties, and they’ve hunted in Brown and Adams County as well. Barnett revealed that this fall with deer season underway and five to six kids signed up to join, along with the web series being produced, he’s been keeping very busy.

“We’re excited about right now and this hunting season going forward,” Barnett said. “We’re going to get our web series going and a goal we’re looking for is we’re hoping to grow and reach more and more people by word of mouth, just getting our name out there.

“If you can touch one per-son, then it’s been success-ful.”

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there has been a 5.1 percent decrease in the amount of paid hunting license holders in Ohio between 2004 and 2015, a much steeper drop than the national average of .8 percent in that time.

And with the lure of video games and internet technol-ogy growing ever greater for today’s youth, Barnett is advocating more and more for people to discover what awaits them outside the walls of their home or office.

“There’s nothing more peaceful then being out in God’s country,” Barnett said. “You’re alone, you’re in your stand, and you can sit back

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and relax and connect with God. This is everything he’s created. To be out there, it’s peaceful, away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and the chaos that comes with it.

“We’re all Christians and we go to church, we praise and worship, but we get to a point at times where guys are look-ing to help other people and this was our avenue. I’m not a singer or in choir, but this is something I’m good at. It helps us spread the message.

“When someone else sees how passionate you are for something, you’re more likely to join in. Being a Christian and doing what I love to do and being good at it, I can use that to relate to people.”

If you’re interested in join-ing StandFast or making a donation to the organization, like the group on Facebook (StandFast Outdoors) and send them a message. Stand-Fast is also looking for loca-tions to host one-day bow and arrow shooting practices.

Daniel Karell is a content producer for the Georgetown News Democrat and the Ripley Bee. Reach him at dkarell@civitasmedia.com

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F10 – BENTONVILLE AREA – 89.223 acre farmwith approx. 70 tillable acres, Old 2336 SF farmhouse not in livable condition but could berehabbed, 12x20 garage, 3 barns (48x36, 72x48,28x26), corn crib. Good location, land could befarmed or developed. $311,500.

BUILDING LOTSL1 – Seaman – .234 acre building lot located oncity street close to State Route 32, city water andsewage and electric already on property. Also anold mobile home which could be rehabbed or usedas storage while you build. Asking $22,900.L1 -Seaman - .234 acre building lot located on citystreet close to State Route 32, city water andsewage and electric already on property. Also anold mobile home which could be rehabbed or usedas storage while you build. Asking $22,900.

L2 – WEST UNION – POSSIBLE OWNERFINANCING – 1.429 acre lot close to town withwater & electric available. PRICE REDUCED TO$12,500. OWNER WILL CONSIDER TRADE.

L6 – MANCHESTER – 3.05 acres located withinvillage with city water & sewer, 5 mobile homehook-ups. $15,000.

L10 – WEST UNION – Very nice lot 0.706 acre lotin nice restricted subdivision, city water/sewageavailable, excellent spot for new home. $23,500.

VACANT LANDV2 – BLUE CREEK – 3.75 wooded acressurrounded by Shawnee State Forest. $16,000.

V4 – WEST UNION – 1.928 acre building lotlocated in nice subdivision, approx. 1 acre ofwoods, all utilities available. $30,000.

V6 – MANCHESTER AREA – 43.75 mostly wood-ed acres with creek, very good area for deer hunt-ing, ample road frontage, great building site orplace to hunt or get away & enjoy the country &wildlife, elec. & water available. $129,900.

V12 – BLUE CREEK – 33.7 acres with 30+ acresof woods, abundant wildlife, 4-year-old fence,county water available. $63,500.

V14 – WEST UNION AREA – 2 wooded acres onblacktop county road with over 300 feet of roadfrontage, county water available. $10,900.

V28 – MANCHESTER AREA – 10 partially wood-ed acres with county water available, excellentplace to build a home nestled in the hills of AdamsCounty. PRICE REDUCED TO $24,900.

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F2 – GREAT HUNTING NEXT TO NATURE CONSERVANCY – 61 acres, mostly wooded with some pasture and tillable, large older farm house, county water, electric, blacktop road, joins Nature Conservancy land, good hunting, 10 minutes from West Union, ONLY $150,000.

F3 – RUSSELVILLE – Approximately 50 acres (needs surveyed) of good farm land, acreage is almost all tillable with very little woods, 2 barns (48x36 & 48x24). Asking $3,800/Acre.

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F7 – WEST UNION – 157.8 mostly wooded acres with a cozy 2 BR cabin, large barn and other outbuildings, very private/secluded location only 10 minutes eat of West Union, road frontage on both S.R. 125 & Frank Young Road. The cabin has electric, county water, propane heat and a nice large deck overlooking Soldiers Run. The perfect retreat and hunter’s paradise. PRICE REDUCED TO $329,000.

F10 – BENTONVILLE AREA – 89.223 acre farm with approx. 70 tillable acres, Old 2336 SF farm house not in livable condition but could be rehabbed, 12x20 garage, 3 barns (48x36, 72x48, 28x26), corn crib. Good location, land could be farmed or developed. PRICE REDUCED TO $279,000. F11 – NEW LISTING – WEST UNION – 11.004 acre

mini horse farm has 1999 DW, 1596 SF living area with full basement, 3 BR, 2 1/2 baths, living room, kitchen with appliances, dining room, gas furnace, C/A, county water, deck, 2-car carport28x70 barn with 16x24 lean-to, 7 horse stalls, small barn, electric fences, creek, 30 ft. above ground pool. $129,900.F17 - HUNTINGTON TWP. - 77.83 acre farm with

remodeled 1 1/2 story brick home originally built in 1800’s, 2200 SF living area, partial basement, 3 BR, 1 bath, living room, kitchen & dining room, large laundry room, propane furnace, A/C, county water, new windows, hardwood floors, 3 barns (32x48, 32x48, 28x46), 28x36 crib. Acreage is approx. 55 acres tillable & 22 acres of woods. $229,900.

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V4 – HARD TO FIND LAND ON BEAUTIFUL OHIO BRUSH CREEK – 69 acres of scattered woods and fertile bottom ground with 2,200 feet frontage on beautiful Ohio Brush Creek and 1,700 feet blacktop road frontage, across the creek from Nature Conservancy land means good hunting, ten minutes eat of West Union – hard to find Brush Creek land. PRICE REDUCED TO $219,000.V5 – NEW LISTING – OLIVER TWP. – 2.95 wooded acres with some marketable timber, nice building lot, water & electric available. $11,900V6 - WEST UNION - 5 mostly level acres in nice location on SR 125 near Panhandle, county water, septic system, large barn, nice place to build. $50,000. V7 – WEST UNION – 6.64 acres of nice level land, nice place to build or raise crops, water & electric available. $29,900.V8 – GEORGETOWN – 5.01 acres in nice location $25,000.V9 – WINCHESTER - 5.01 wooded acres with some large trees, nice place to build a new home. $32,500.V11 - ROME - 4.11 acres in town with 2 water taps , 2 septic systems, 36x50 barn located close to Ohio River and boat dock. A MUST SEE - PRICED TO SELL AT $24,900. V12 – MANCHESTER – 27 acres ideal for hunting/recreation, water & electric available. $49,900 – POSSIBLE OWNER FINANCING.V14 – MANCHESTER AREA – POSSIBLE OWNER FINANCING – 3.028 wooded acres with some timber, great for camping, water & electric available. $9,900.

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By the time you will read this article Ohio’s hunting season will already be here.

But before you go into the field to harvest some of our abundant wildlife there are a few things you absolutely need to know to keep your-self and others safe. In the State of Ohio before you can purchase a hunting license you will have to take and successfully pass a Hunt-ers Education Course. This course is provided at no cost by a volunteer staff of instructors.

The course will teach you skills to help you be safe and successful in your hunt. For those of you who are new to hunting or those who have been hunting for years I will go over some key points to keep you safe in the field.

Always remember the four primary rules of gun safety. No. 1: Keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction at all times. No. 2: Treat every gun as if it is loaded. No. 3: Always be sure of your tar-get and what is behind your target. No. 4: Keep your fin-ger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.

The color of your clothing also plays an important role in keeping you safe. During Ohio’s deer gun seasons you 14

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During the deer season you should avoid clothing which is brown, tan or white in color. During turkey season you should avoid clothing which is red, black, blue or white in color.

If you will be hunting from a tree stand I hope you will take my advice and invest $30 to $40 in a good fall restraint system which wraps around your chest, waist and legs. Make sure the restraint system is tied to the tree the

moment your feet leave the ground. Encourage other hunters to do the same. Ohio

hunters have died when they have fallen out of a tree stand. Trees stand accidents are annually the number one cause of death and serious injury to deer hunters and virtually 100 percent of these incidents are preventable by implementing a few simple safety measures.

National statistics show that one in three hunters will fall from a tree stand during their hunting career. You should also be using a haul line in the tree stand. A haul line is a simple piece of rope which is attached to the top of the tree stand and goes all the way to the ground. You use the haul line to pull your un-arrowed bow, unloaded firearm and equipment safely up the tree stand.

Fitness plays an important role as well. You must know

your limits and don’t exceed them. It can be a physically exhausting task to hike up and down hills in the mud and snow. It can be even more exhausting to drag a deer out of the woods. In my experience a deer in its final moments will find the deep-est, hardest to reach location before it dies. You should be conducting some form of exercise for months before embarking on your hunt. Your heart and lungs need to be ready.

Even if you take pass your Hunters Safety Course and take all the tips I have given you to heart you can still hurt someone while hunting.

Have you ever taken aim at an animal and world around you narrows until all you see is your sights and the ani-mal? Have you ever taken a shot at a deer with a firearm and don’t remember hearing the bang. You are not alone;

these physiological symp-toms are your sympathetic nervous systems response to stress.

The same thing happens to our military members and police officers when faced with combat. What is hap-pening is known as tunnel vison and auditory exclusion. Keep in mind this is some-thing you will possibly have to face when out on your hunt. You can help avoid an accident and lesson these symptoms by knowing your shooting lanes and what is beyond them. Also remember to take a deep breath and scan the area with your eyes before taking aim at your target.

I wish you all a safe, suc-cessful and fun hunting season. Now go outside and enjoy nature!

Scott Cartwright is the Ohio state wildlife officer for Adams County.

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backpackingBy tom Cross

My first camping trip was with the boy scouts sleeping in the rain under a stretched out poncho on the ground near the East Fork of the Little Miami. Later our family took up camping and purchased a 9’x 9’ heavy canvas tent from Sears. The tent was too small to sleep a family of five and soon my parents purchased an 18’ pull behind camping trailer dad hitched to a big Chrysler New Yorker. Camping in those days was between Rocky Fork Lake State Park and Cowan Lake. Years later I inherited the Sears can-vas tent and started our own family camping trips. They don’t make can-vas tents like that anymore; I think my brother owns it now.

Those were great days in our youth and later great memorable days for our family when we started camping. My wife and I, we’re empty nesters now, are still camping and taking long road trips bypassing the hotels and motels, looking instead for national forest campgrounds or state parks,

preferably next to fishing.The desire to hit the road and see

what’s out there is the genetic explor-er in all of us. Camping is a great way to see the undiscovered country, to get away, unwind and make memo-ries. Nothing quite like a blackened hot dog or burnt marshmallow over a campfire to put life in perspective. The campfire is the essential ingredi-ent in any camping trip and is mes-merizing force that lullaby’s you to sleep at night and warms you in the morning.

Camping needs to be neither expen-sive nor complicated, remember it’s the basic elements, shelter, food, water and fire, is all you need to get started.

• Tents: They have come a long way since that vintage Sears tent which required tent poles and ropes to hold it up. Today’s dome tents are self-standing and very compact. Places like Wal-Mart, Bass Pro, and Dicks have a good selection at relativ-ity inexpensive prices. Depending on

your needs, a one-person backpacker of a family of five, prices are likely to range from $35 to $150 for a quality tent that will last three or five years, longer if taken care of. Most places that sell tents have floor models set up and that’s the best way to choose. Screened in canopies, or tents, are a nice addition for cooking under and storing gear especially in mosquito country.

• Camp stoves & lanterns: Back

in the day a Coleman camp stove and lantern was the basic essential. Cole-man fuel was sold everywhere. Still a great choice and will last 30 the cof-fee pot. Also today’s battery powered lanterns last a long time and some models are very compact.

• Sleeping bags: This is the one place you should probably spend a few extra bucks. Depending if you’re camp-ing in the fall or winter, or just the 4th of July weekend in Florida; or if you’re carrying it on your back or in the back of a pickup will likely determine your

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need. I like a flannel lining and cloth outer shell with plenty of foot room if truck or car camping, comfort is the word here. If backpacking I’m opting for the nylon inside and out and minimizing weight. The more money you spend the better the bag, however $50 to $75 bucks will get you a pretty good sleeping bag. Pur-chase two of the same and you can zip them together and make a double bag. Foam mats are also advisable and can take the lumps out of the ground. Cots are nice too if you have the room.

• Kitchen ware: Pot & pans to go on the road come packaged in com-pact “nesting” arraignments in which one pot fits inside another pot. Fry-ing pans have detachable or folding handles, nearly all cooking kits have a 6 to 8 cup coffee pot and cups and plates for four. Forks & spoons can be old kitchen silverware. A bucket is handy from which to wash dishes in, a collapsible sink is better. Don’t for-get paper towels, matches or lighters,

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dish and hand soap, and a table covering is nice for picnic tables. A nice heavy plastic storage box to keep it all together is handy too.

• Coolers: A good qual-ity 54 to 75 quart cooler will suffice for most fami-lies. Keep a blanket over it and out of the sun for the best efficiency. Ice will usu-ally last a couple of days in most cases. A smaller 16 to 30 quart cooler is handy to take to the beach.

• Other essentials: Don’t forget the water jug; a collapsible 5-gal jug with a spigot is pretty handy and folds up when empty. The 5-gallon “Jenny Jug” is standard and nearly all campgrounds have a ready water supply from which to fill it from. Though most any campground has picnic tables, having an extra fold out or compact collapsible table is very handy. Same goes for seating with fold out chairs. Having a camp axe or hatchet is neces-sary and a high quality fold up saw is also needed if you have to cut your own firewood. Use the camp axe to split and splinter the wood for dry kindling. Another essential is a food storage container. A good quality locking storage box will deter all but the most determined raccoons, but it won’t stop a bear. Having camped in bear and grizzly country I make a habit of putting food into a vehicle at night. Nothing like wak-ing up in the middle of the night and hearing the pots and pans rattling. Other items should include plenty of sun screen and mosquito repellent. I like Deep Woods Off, but there are other brands just as effective. Mosquitoes in southern

Ohio pale in comparison to mosquitoes in the north woods of Canada or the Everglades during summer. Other camp visitors usually include chipmunks, squir-rels, geese and sea gulls if near water; mice can find their way into a camper too.

• Campgrounds: State parks have the most conve-niences, including electric, dump stations, nice rest-rooms and hot showers, usually a camp store and family activities. Ohio has 56 state park campgrounds. Prices range from $20 to $40 per night. National for-est campgrounds are more basic, usually just a picnic table, a fire ring, a water pump and pit toilets, however they are usually located at some of the most remote and scenic areas in the state. Prices can range from free to $10. Private campgrounds are an option too and usually allow long term seasonal camping.

If opting for pull type pop-up or fold out camp-ing trailer then much of the above will be included in the camper. Today’s fold out campers are light and can easily sleep a family a five. Some models are small enough to be pulled behind compacts and motorcycles. Used pop-up’s can be had for as little as $500, new ones can range from $4,000 to $5,000. Camping trailers, fifth-wheels and buses are more popular than ever and add new meaning to rough-ing it. Or you can put in all in a backpack and start walking into the mountains. Either way it’s getting out and discovering the undis-covered country.

Tom Cross is a 30+ year columnist for the Peoples Defender, frequent radio host on WLW-Big Outdoors, past president of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio, and author of ‘Fishing Ohio’.

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Ohio has 74 State Parks, of those 56 have campgrounds. They’re all great and I’ve been to most of them. Here’s my picks of some of the best campgrounds in Ohio and beyond.

F Pymatuning Lake State Park; nestled in the northeast corner of the state the campground sits on the shore of giant Pymatuning Lake. It has cabins and 370 campsites. www.ohio-stateparks.org

F Hocking Hills State Park, located in some of the most beautiful country in southeast Ohio it has 172 campsites. Plen-ty to do at Hocking Hills. www.ohiostateparks.org

F Salt Folk State Park is a large campground with 212 sites and offers a lodge for dining, 18 holes of golf, and plenty of hiking, family activities and wildlife. www.ohiostateparks.org

F Alum Creek State Park in the center of Ohio has 289 campsites and all the amenities. Fishing at Alum Creek Lake for saugeye, bass, muskie and crappie is pretty good. www.ohiostateparks.org

F Piedmont Lake, managed by the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District, is one of my favorites. Only 50 camp-sites, it’s secluded and quiet, next to the lake and difficult to get

to. www.mwcd.org/places/parks-and-campgrounds/piedmont-marina-and-campground

F Rocky Fork State Park is one gem of a campground, with 172 campsites, 34 sites near the water’s edge. Plenty of family activities at Rocky Fork. www.ohiostateparks.org

F AEP Ohio Power ReCreation Lands in Morgan County has seven campgrounds, all free camping. Great fishing and camping off the beaten path. For a free permit and map go to www.aep.com/environment/conservation/recland

F Twin Knobs Campground at Cave Run Lake just west of Morehead, KY., has over 200 camping sites nestled among the pines in the mountains overlooking beautiful Cave Run Lake. www.kentuckytourism.com/places_to_stay/twin-knobs-camp-ground-and-recreation-area/3026/

F Great Meadows campground in the heart of the Daniel Boone National Forest, KY. Hard to get to and remote. Located on the shores of Rock Creek, a designated Kentucky Wild River. Only company will be trout and bears. Camping is free. www.kentuckytourism.com/places_to_stay/great-meadow-campground/2912/

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Viewing platform atop Buzzardroost Rock

By tom Cross

Fall, winter, spring or summer, the hiking trails are open year round with each visit as different as the seasons.

The following trails are the five most popular hikes in Adams County. Three of the hikes are on the 14,000 Edge of Appalachia Preserve; the Davis and Whipple hikes are located on state nature preserves. Most hikes are easy to moderate with views so spectacular you’ll wish you had a camera, because what you see you’ll want to take home and keep.

best places to hike in adams County

View from atop Buzzard Roost

#1- Buzzardroost Rock Trail is two miles one way to Buzzardroost Rock mak-ing for a 4-mile round trip hike. A new entrance to the Buzzardroost Rock trail is now permanently located on the south side of S.R. 125, approximately 1.5 miles east from Waggoner Riffle Road. The new location saves hikers from having to cross busy S.R. 125.

Coordinates to the new Buzzardroost trailhead is -83.426 38.771

Buzzardroost is the most popular hike in Adams Coun-ty and for good reason. A strenuous hike of four miles to the “Roost” and back rewards hikers with a spectacular view from the viewing platform of the Ohio Brush Creek valley below. Spring wildflowers, fall colors, and during winter, the surrounding landscape lays bare all its geological features for everyone to see including the nearby Tiffin cliffs.

Fall at Buzzardroost

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Buzzardroost Rock is popular with hikers #2 - Davis Memorial

State Nature Preserve locat-ed on Davis Memorial Road, contains a pair of half-mile loop trails, the Sullivantia and the Agave Ridge Trail, both trails connect to the Buckeye Trail. It’s good year round hik-ing. The trails vary from easy to moderate. Hikers will see a display of spring wildflowers, unique geological formations and great fall colors.

#3 - Lynx Prairie Trail

is a 1.5-mile loop trail. Lynx Prairie also got a new trail-head and is located at the end Cline Road. At Lynx on St. Rt. 125, turn south on Tulip Road drive ¾ of a mile, Cline Road is located on the east side of the road, continue to the end of Cline Rd.. The new trail moves the entrance of the pop-ular Lynx Prairie Trail away from the township cemetery.

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Coordinates to the new Lynx Prairie Trail is -83.407 38.759 The Lynx Prairie is a National Landmark and it best viewed in late summer when the prairie is blooming. It’s an easy hike that features over 200 species of plants and prai-rie flowers.

#4 - Wilderness Trail is a 2.5-mile loop trail. At Lynx take Lynx Road to Shivener Road, turn north and proceed to parking area and trail head at end of road. A moder-ate hike through the Edge of Appalachia Preserve will reveal an unbroken forest with limestone cliffs, white cedar and over 50 rare plants and flowers. Spring wildflowers and fall foliage are some of the sights hikers will observe on their way though the Wilder-ness.

#5 - Shoemaker Preserve Trail is a 1-1/2-mile trail that concludes with a loop. Hik-ers visiting Shoemaker will observe geological formations, dolomite cliffs, a variety of spring wildflowers and a large natural arch. One of Adams County’s most scenic trails, it follows Cedar Fork, a tributary of Scioto Brush Creek, and is considered a moderate hike. Take Portsmouth Road east off S.R. 32, turn onto Pine Gap Road, trailhead is on right.

Keep in mind that all trails are located in semi-wilderness areas and hikers will likely encounter sink holes, cliffs, drop offs, steep climbs and generally rough terrain.

Tom Cross is an avid outdoorsmen, camper, hunter & fisherman, and has been writing on the outdoors since 1972.

“today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.So… get on your way.” ~ dr. Seuss

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