Start from 25 curated places around Hocking Hills, OH, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Pizza Crossing
A downtown Logan institution serving Columbus-style square-cut pizza with an uncommonly thick layer of toppings, cooked in a deck oven that produces a cracker-crisp crust. The dining room is casual and family-oriented, with bone-in wings that draw as many regulars as the pizza itself. The 'All the Way' pie covers the full topping menu and is the local ordering shorthand.
TheFeed
A pub-style kitchen in Logan with a focused menu of hand-smashed burgers, brisket tacos, chicken wings, and rotating local drafts — the kind of place that sources produce locally and updates the board more often than the printed menu. The atmosphere skews energetic and casual, with a bar that stays lively on weekend evenings. The pickle flatbread and loaded pierogis stand out as non-obvious menu choices.
Trails & outdoors
Old Man's Cave and Naturalist Cabin Loop
The core loop of the park's most-visited area, covering 0.8 miles along the gorge floor with stairways connecting multiple levels between waterfalls, the main cave, and the naturalist cabin at the trail terminus. Black Hand sandstone cliffs rise 50 feet on both sides of the creek for most of the route, and the combination of waterfalls, cave recesses, and carved stone steps makes it one of the most scenic short hikes in Ohio. Best for first-time visitors who want the full gorge experience in under an hour.
Ash Cave Loop
A 0.5-mile accessible loop that combines a flat paved path along the cave floor with a steeper gorge trail option for those who want more elevation. The cave itself — a 700-foot sandstone horseshoe 90 feet high — is visible from the moment you step off the parking lot path, and the scale grows as you approach. A short gorge trail variant adds modest climbing through hemlock forest to a rim overlook above the waterfall notch.
Things to do
Hocking Hills Canopy Tours
The original and most-reviewed zipline operation in Hocking Hills, with multiple course options ranging from a classic seven-line canopy tour through old-growth forest to the SuperZip — a quarter-mile dual racing line reaching speeds up to 50 mph. Named best outdoor adventure in Ohio three consecutive times by Ohio Magazine and first in USA Today's Best Ziplines in America. The guides' safety record and patience with first-timers are consistently the top-cited factors in positive reviews.
High Rock Adventures
A guided rock climbing and rappelling operation in Rockbridge offering multi-pitch routes calibrated to group experience level, with certified guides who adapt the day's climbing objectives to participant ability in real time. The Rock Challenge Tour introduces vertical climbing and rappelling simultaneously, while the Eco-Nature Tour adds natural history context to the movement through the cliff environment. One of the few outfitters in Ohio offering true single-pitch trad climbing instruction to beginners in a natural sandstone setting.
Landmarks & sights
Old Man's Cave
The park's signature gorge, carved by Queer Creek through layers of Black Hand sandstone, descends through Upper Falls, Devil's Bathtub, Lower Falls, and the recess cave itself where a hermit once lived. Staircases, bridges, and railings tie together what is otherwise a rugged stone canyon full of overhanging ledges and mossy walls. The visitor center adjacent to the main parking lot has maps and ranger staff.
Ash Cave
The largest recess cave in Ohio — a 700-foot horseshoe-shaped amphitheater of sandstone rising 90 feet — frames a seasonal waterfall that plunges to the cave floor from a notch in the rim above. The flat, paved path from the parking lot makes this one of the few Hocking Hills sites accessible to strollers and wheelchairs, yet the scale of the cave itself is genuinely dramatic. Birdsong echoes off the curved back wall in a way that feels almost architectural.