Creek Hiking at Sheepskin Hollow State Nature Preserve | Columbiana County, OH

Sheepskin Hollow State Nature Preserve is situated on the Ohio side of the Ohio-Pennsylvania border in Columbiana, OH, about 13 miles north of East Liverpool, OH, and 10 miles Southwest of Darlington, PA. Unlike many other State Nature Preserves in Ohio, Sheepskin Hollow has no official or marked trails. It is akin to a wilderness area more than it is a park. Its 468 acres are open to the public to explore. The highlights of the Preserve are the North Fork Little Beaver Creek and the deep hollows containing creek tributaries and surrounded by steep Appalachian Foothills on either side. The hollows are filled with rocky, wet, wild terrain, and pristine forests filled with an abundance of hemlocks.

The various hollows are accessible as offshoots from a now defunct railroad line. Getting to the hollows requires a steep climb from the railroad. After this, the hikes will consist of rock scrambles/and or creek hiking. The hike depicted in this video consists of a visit to a remote waterfall approximately 1 mile from the railroad, as detailed by Natural Ohio Adventures: http://www.naturalohioadventures.com/...

For more information about Sheepskin Hollow State Nature Preserve, visit the Ohio Department of Natural Resources site: http://naturepreserves.ohiodnr.gov/sh...

Since there are no marked trails, there is no proper trailhead for the hike depicted in this video. However, the approximate location of the railroad can be found here, via Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.75294...

Also see the description of the hike to the waterfalls in Sheepskin Hollow provided by Natural Ohio Adventures in the linked page, above.