Valley Picnic Area
Valley Picnic Area is a picnic site in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 223 m. Derthick Hill stands 409 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park, a picnic site 0.5 miles away. Ohio & Erie Canalway runs past it. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park
How to reach it
- On the Ohio & Erie Canalway, National
- 2.4 mi off the Heritage Corridors of Bath
- 19.9 mi off the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail, National
- 26.7 mi off the North Ridge Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 6 mi
- My Mountain Overlook · 7 mi
- Prather Vista · 7 mi
- Missing Link Vista · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- H. Karl Butler Memorial: 1.5 mi
- Old Portage Path Arrowhead: 6.6 mi
- Treaty of Fort McIntosh Boundary Line: 6.8 mi
- Doodlebug Memorial: 7.0 mi
- Harriet Keeler Memorial: 7.2 mi
- Pine Lane Trailhead: 1.5 mi
- Blue Hen Falls Trailhead: 2.3 mi
- Wildlife Woods Park: 2.3 mi
- Virginia Kendall Park: 2.5 mi
- Boston Trailhead: 2.7 mi
- Hale Farm & Village: 2.9 mi
- Bath Township Museum: 5.6 mi
- Squire Rich Historical Museum: 6.7 mi
- Cuyahoga Falls Historical Society: 7.6 mi
- Twinsburg Historical Society: 8.5 mi
- Native Plant and Pollinator Garden: 5.8 mi
- Rock and Herb Garden: 5.9 mi
- Twinsburg Township Community Garden: 6.6 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 7.2 mi
- Great Garden: 7.3 mi
- Clock Tower Illusion: 6.0 mi
- Elephant Family Statues: 6.2 mi
- Mary Statue: 6.2 mi
- Indigenous American Statue: 6.3 mi
- Chief Netawatwees Statue: 7.0 mi
- Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park: 0.9 mi
- Bath Road Heronry: 4.3 mi
- Bath Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Richfield Nature Preserve: 6.1 mi
- Tinkers Creek Nature Preserve: 9.8 mi
- Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park: 0.5 mi
- Shady Knoll Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
- Columbia Run Picnic Area: 3.5 mi
- Ottawa Backcountry Kitchen Site: 5.9 mi
- Oak Grove Picnic Area: 6.3 mi
- Lock 28: 0.6 mi
- Heritage Farms: 1.0 mi
- Lock 25: 3.5 mi
- Big Oak Tree: 3.7 mi
- Lock 24: 3.8 mi
- Blue Hen Falls: 2.5 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 2.7 mi
- Brandywine Falls: 3.8 mi
- Mud Brook Falls: 5.6 mi
- Greenwood Falls: 5.8 mi
- Oak Hill: 0.6 mi
- Summit County high point: 5.6 mi
- Cuyahoga County high point: 8.4 mi
- Reeds Hill: 8.7 mi
- Coal Hill: 9.8 mi
- Lake Lucerne Beach: 16.5 mi
- Turkeyfoot Beach: 17.7 mi
- Wallace Beach: 18.2 mi
- Edgewater Beach: 20.5 mi
- K-9 Coastline: 20.6 mi
- Summit Interstate 77 Northbound: 4.0 mi
- Summit Interstate 77 Southbound: 4.1 mi
- Hinkley Rest Area: 5.7 mi
- Hinkley Rest Area: 5.8 mi
- Whipps Ledges: 7.4 mi
- Wordens Ledges: 8.3 mi
- Princess Ledges: 15.1 mi
- Princess Ledges: 15.2 mi
- Brandywine Village: 3.7 mi
- Cobbs Corners: 15.5 mi
- Newbury Center: 23.2 mi
- Cleveland Harbor Main Entrance Light: 21.3 mi
- Fog Signal House: 21.3 mi
- Cleveland East Pierhead Light: 21.4 mi
- White Oak Spring: 0.7 mi
- Indian Spring: 9.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Valley Picnic Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Derthick Hill | ENE 72° | 409 m | 19.3 mi |
| Portage County high point | ENE 74° | 408 m | 21.5 mi |
| Summit County high point | WNW 288° | 404 m | 5.6 mi |
| McConougheys Hill | NE 47° | 399 m | 18.3 mi |
| Cuyahoga County high point | NW 309° | 390 m | 8.4 mi |
| Bacon Hill | SE 138° | 371 m | 20.7 mi |
| Acme Hill | SW 223° | 369 m | 18.6 mi |
| Welsh Hill | ENE 61° | 369 m | 22.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:31 | 19:02 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:22 | 21:03 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:49 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 16:17 | 17:01 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 48 | 59 | 67 | 71 | 70 | 63 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.2 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.0 | 3.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Stow 4 SE, 9 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Jan and Feb; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/10742010468
Day trips start here
- Peninsula · 1 mi
- Cuyahoga Valley National Park · 2 mi
- Richfield · 4 mi
- Cuyahoga Falls · 6 mi
- Hudson · 6 mi
- Fairlawn · 7 mi
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