At the end of October, I visited Hocking Hills State Park near Logan, Ohio. I completed three short trails to Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, and Ash Cave before heading to Logan for a late lunch. I was recommended to eat at Millstone BBQ in Logan, so I stopped here to have lunch before heading to Cantwell Cliffs in the late afternoon. I am glad I did stop as the food was very good here.
Millstone BBQ is a restaurant that sells American BBQ food, and it is located just outside of Logan and on the fringe of Hocking Hills State Park. We arrived in the middle of the afternoon for a late lunch; we were hungry from walking around the trails all morning.
The cornbread muffins, which were provided as a starter, are the best. I was looking forward to having cornbread, and this type of cornbread is the best as it tastes sweeter instead of very salty/savoury. It went well with the butter.
After the cornbread starter, we had our main meals. The bloke got three pulled-meat starters with different types of meat (pork, chicken, and something else that I cannot remember), and his was served with fries. I had a mixture of pulled chicken and pulled turkey with broccoli and mashed potato. All of the food was very good. The turkey was recommended to me by the waitress as she said that was her favourite, and it was very tender and had a very nice flavour. I preferred the turkey to the chicken, but the chicken was also very good.
For dessert, I had the Andes Mint pie. (Andes Mint is a brand of mint with a thin layer of mint and a thing layer of milk chocolate; it is usually provided as a sweet end after a meal.) The pie had a moussey consistency and was topped with Hershy's chocolate sauce and had a crispy cookie crunch crust. I enjoyed it, but it was too much and too sweet that I could not finish it.
After eating, we headed to Cantwell Hills and I walked down to the "Fat Lady's Squeeze", a group of narrow walks with steps between them. Cantwell Cliffs is a trail that contains a lot of steps along various places of the hill. After eating such a big meal and feeling very full, I didn't want to get stuck between the rocks! I didn't go further because the time was late by the time I arrived, and I thought that the trail would look nicer with more autumnal colours. I decided that we could walk this trail another day someday. In the photographs below, you can see just how steep and narrow the passageway is.
Cantwell Cliffs is a clifftop trail, so be careful when walking in this area. I don't think it would be suitable for dog walkers or small children because the cliffs have drops. This will be a trail to complete the next time that I am in Hocking Hills. For inspiration of what I got up to the other days, take a look below:
A Walk to Ash Cave in Hocking Hills (Ohio, USA)
Wine Tasting at Hocking Hills Winery (Ohio, USA)
Visiting Cedar Falls in Hocking Hills (Ohio, USA)
A Walk to Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills (Ohio, USA)
Leave a comment