You've now made it to Hocking Hills State Park! Unlike some of the other checkpoints on these routes, this is not a village at all, but a state park and tourist attraction. Hocking Hills features canoeing, horseback riding, ziplining, workshops, rock climbing, atving, plane rides, and more, all with the backdrop of some incredibley beautiful landscapes, such as the one pictured to the left (image courtesy of Dustin M. Ramsey - Dustin M. Ramsey, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link). Hocking Hills is the result of the ocean draining from the land over 200 million years ago, as well as the movement of the earth, along with water and erosion. Over 7000 years ago, the Adena Culture left evidence of having lived here. Later, in the 1700s, tribes such as the Wyandot, Shawnee, and Delaware passed through or lived here for a time. Still later, in the 1830's there was a power mill built near Rock House, and a grist mill at Cedar Falls. The, in the 1900's, Rock House had an operational hotel, and Ash Cave would be used by church-goers, as preachers would use the large rock at the entrance as a makeshift pulpit. In 1924, the state purchased the first parcel of land, which was 146 acres and included the famous Old Man's Cave. Until 1949, when the department of natural resources was created, and a new Division of Parks assumed control of the park, it existed under the department of forestry (information courtesy of thehockinghills.org).