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The upper Cuyahoga River, starting at 1,093 feet (333 m) over 84 miles (135 km) from its mouth, drops in elevation fairly steeply, creating falls and rapids in some places; the lower Cuyahoga River only drops several feet along the last several miles of the lower river to 571 feet (174 m) [4] at the mouth on Lake Erie, resulting in relatively ...
Tinker's Creek is the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, the river which flows through Cleveland and into Lake Erie. Because of its glacial history, the course of the Cuyahoga River is unusual: it rises in Geauga County, Ohio, flows southward into the city of Akron, Ohio, and then abruptly turns northward and flows into Lake Erie.
Cuyahoga Valley National Park is a national park of the United States in Ohio that preserves and reclaims the rural landscape along the Cuyahoga River between Akron and Cleveland in Northeast Ohio. The 32,783-acre (51.2 sq mi; 132.7 km 2 ) park [ 1 ] is administered by the National Park Service , but within its boundaries are areas ...
Map of a portion of the canal route in the Cuyahoga Valley. The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio.It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth.
“The Cuyahoga River that infamously caught on fire many times, the last time in 1969 down in Cleveland, that river runs through this park and it's named for that,” said Pamela Barnes, the park ...
Bird's-eye view map of Cleveland in 1877. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Its central location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River allowed it to become a major center for Great Lakes trade in northern Ohio in the early 19th century.
Officials gave an update on the removal of the Gorge Dam in Cuyahoga Falls, announcing the US EPA has cleared $100 million to remove toxic sediment.
The arch dam on the Cuyahoga River downtown just after completion of the Heritage Park project in 2005. In 2003, the old arch dam was bypassed to meet water quality standards set by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. To preserve the historic dam, a small park was built behind the dam and the river was rerouted through the old canal lock.