After our Korean lunch on Sunday, we had the afternoon free. It was a beautiful day so we decided to take a hike in the Cleveland Metroparks (and burn a few calories after all the eating we have done on this trip). We drove to Lake Isaac in Middleburgh Heights, the beginning of the "Lake to Lake Trail"... a 5 mile round trip hike. We had done this trail quite a few years ago, but we decided to walk it again.
Lake Isaac is a glacier pothole lake that was created thousands of year ago. It is now a waterfowl sanctuary.
From Lake Isaac, the paved trail heads northward.
A boardwalk crosses an area of wetlands. There is an observation area looking out over the marshes.
There were swallows that had made their nests in the roof of the wooden pavilion. The birds were flying back and forth to feed their babies.
Nearby a deer was standing like a statue as if it were posing for our photos.
There were quite of few of these flowering trees with very attractive blossoms.
The trail crosses a busy road and commercial area before entering another forested area.
After the glaciers receded, the lake attracted mastodons, mammoths, ancient horses, camels, bison, and saber-toothed cats. When humans arrived on the scene, it was an excellent hunting ground. Fossils of mastodons and giant beaver have been found in the peat bogs that once surrounded the lake. In the 1800s, the black muck around Lake Abram was ideal for the cultivation of onions, and Middleburg Heights was known as "the onion capital of the world". The onion farms are gone now, and the area has returned to its natural state.
After hiking the entire length of the trail, we then returned to Lake Isaac where the car was parked.
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