Indian Point Park - Lake Metroparks - Leroy Township, Ohio

This is my 6th in a series of videos I will be posting of the Lake Metroparks I will be visiting that are scattered around Lake County, Ohio here were I live.

Indian Point Park is very large and with lots of Nature Trails to walk on and beautiful scenery everywhere you look. It was a great day when we went there and I could of stayed there all day long!

Here is some more info on the park along with a couple links to click on if you want to check out more on the park.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service, Indian Point has one of the earliest architectural works in this part of Ohio.

A tribe from the Whittlesey Culture lived here; a Whittlesey structure was built on the 100-foot ridge between Paine Creek and the Grand River. Two parallel mounds of their earthworks can be seen.

The Whittelsey were an early people who lived from 900 AD to 1650 AD in stockade villages on high bluffs overlooking rivers and lakes. Because they had no contact with Europeans, the name of their tribe is unknown. The culture is named after the archaeologist who discovered the tribe.

Charles Lyman bought several acres at the Point in 1901. He had camped here often. In the years before World War I, he used the area as a military camp for high school boys. More than 150 youngsters attended Lyman's Camp Wissolohican during its seven-year period of existence. Lyman began carving the names of campers into a Totem Stone, which can be seen along the trail near the point. Later, the point became a Finnish camp, Kaleva Lodge. During this time, a stone hut was built and used as a sauna, intact until the 1970s, when the park system dismantled it. The property was purchased from John Phelps in 1964. A plaque was erected here, in honor of James and Edna Phelps, his parents. (In 1802, part of the property had been deeded to his ancestors by the Connecticut Land Company.)

Indian Point Park Websites:
http://www.lakemetroparks.com/select-park/indian-point.shtml

Lake Metroparks Website:
http://www.lakemetroparks.com/

http://hikingohioparks.com/Indian-point-park-hiking-ohio-parks.html

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[ohguy1991]

Im really glad you posted this.it makes me appreciate the beauty of my community.i need to remember this when im pissin and moaning about how cold it is and how much snow we get in the winter.sites like this make it all worth while!

[MoviesMusicNature]

@ohguy1991 I'm glad you found my video of Indian Point Park... We do seem to piss and moan when we have those long cold winters don't we? LOL! Time to get out and go for a hike.. before that white stuff arrives.

[AxRhea88]

I used to go to Leroy every few days when my friend lived out there. He was big into nature and animals and we would be out at Indian Point every time I came over. I have walked through that stream, drank water from that stream (yeah. hah), tried climbing that wall seen halfway through the video...I miss Leroy.

[MoviesMusicNature]

@AxRhea88 This is a beautiful area for sure, I can see why you went there all the time. There is so much to see there and you could walk around forever and see so much. Glad you stopped by and found some memories from my video! Thanks for commenting..

[odlaw18]

Chris, Great job on that one as usual. The color is out of this world. Wish I could be there in the spring. Breathtaking.

[MoviesMusicNature]

Thanks Waldo! Yeah with all the snow we have here now I could go for some color myself LOL... It is nice to see the birds at this time of year and their colors :-) Thanks for stopping by..

[MoviesMusicNature]

Glad you liked it... Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

[ojfraz]

that's beautiful..

[MoviesMusicNature]

Yeah I'm kind of late putting these up now with all this snow around here but its nice to see colors and unfrozen water :-) I still have another park video to come...

Then maybe a snow covered park if I make it out one of these weekends? Thanks for stopping by for the view..

[NewOrleansWoman]

oh didn't realize you put another vid up !

oh this is not fair to live in such a pretty place LOL Oh what I would give to see fall leaves now instead of white stuff everywhere :-)