CLEVELAND, Ohio -- You don’t have to own a kayak or a canoe to enjoy the 88-mile Cuyahoga River Water Trail. You may find yourself in the market for one, however, with all the diverse paddling ...

On April 23, 1969, the Little Miami River in southwest Ohio was the first to be designated as a State Scenic River. On June 26, 1974, parts of the Cuyahoga River was officially designated as a ...

Ashtabula County is far more scenic than Ohio's other counties, at least as far as its rivers are concerned. Director Sean Logan of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and a crowd of ...

The designation makes Raccoon Creek the 16 th state scenic river in Ohio and the first in the state’s southeastern region, flowing for more than 100 miles through parts of Vinton, Meigs, and ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has officially designated Raccoon Creek in Lake Hope State Park as one of Ohio’s new scenic rivers. This river is found in southeastern Ohio, traversing Vinton, Meigs and ...

Ohio was the first state to pass a Scenic Rivers Act. That happened in 1968, six months before the national scenic rivers program, and a couple of months before the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland ...

The Little Miami River was designated an Ohio scenic river in 1969 and a national scenic river in 1971, becoming one of the first rivers in Ohio to achieve state and national status. In February, the ...

To the Editor: The Morning Journal editorial on Ohio’s Scenic River program concludes that “Ohio needs to properly balance providing public access to beautiful waterways to protecting the ...