“This is so much nicer than staying in a hotel,” said Julie Carroll of Columbus, who spent the night recently in a canvas cabin at Valley Overlook campground in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
One of 11 canvas cabins at Valley Overlook, a new cabin and campground within Cuyahoga Valley National Park.PENINSULA, Ohio – I fell asleep to a symphony of cicadas and woke up to birds singing.
The great joy of Cuyahoga Valley, at least for those of us who live in Northeast Ohio, is its proximity – a half hour from Cleveland, 15 minutes from Akron. It’s a day-use park for most of us, so perhaps we’ve never noticed the lack of nearby lodging. Canvas cabins at Valley Overlook are furnished with king, queen or twin beds, small dining table and two chairs.
The platform tents, or canvas cabins as Valley Overlook calls them, are the clear early favorite – at least while the weather is nice – set amid the trees, with private decks overlooking the forest. There are no kitchens or bathrooms, although fire pits are equipped with an attached grill if you’re feeling ambitious. I was not.
Full-service bathrooms were new, clean and a short walk from the tents. Even so, I was glad I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night and need to use the restroom. The National Park Service had an option to buy the land but declined, instead choosing to work with the Schoens to ensure the property is preserved into the future. All development on the land has to meet strict park service guidelines.
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