{"id":14907,"date":"2025-07-28T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=14907"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:57:05","slug":"tn_11-hop-6-twinsburg-oh-to-elmira-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/28\/tn_11-hop-6-twinsburg-oh-to-elmira-ny\/","title":{"rendered":"TN_11 Hop 6: Twinsburg OH to Elmira NY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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TN_11 Hop 6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

338 miles via OH 82, OH 8, OH 303, I-480, I-271, I-90 and I-86 with several sightseeing stops in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park<\/a> and a visit to the Seneca Allegheny Casino<\/a> in Salamanca NY. Auto miles: 347. Cumulative route miles: 2855. Cumulative auto miles: 3051.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a hop that wasn’t planned. It became necessary because our stay in Twinsburg, at the Super 8 Twinsburg\/Cleveland<\/a>, was so bad that we cancelled the planned second night. How bad was it? Let me count the ways. Dirty hallway, a microwave that had just one working button (the “3” – to heat our coffee for 2 minutes we had to enter 3:33 and stop it with 1:33 left), a TV remote that didn’t work, an A\/C unit that was difficult to operate, a terrible breakfast (a choice of cereal or white toast, with Tang instead of orange juice), a musty odor everywhere. I think I am being generous by giving it a 2 on a 10 scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Disgusting carpet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Security” door<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More disgusting carpet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We visited the MGM Northfield Park Casino<\/a> on our one night in Twinsburg. I won $100 but Marlene lost $200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After our not-very-good breakfast we did an auto tour of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. This is a large park that lacks the dramatic settings of the western national parks but is quite serene and scenic in a subdued way. We visited on a Saturday which is the busiest day for this suburban Cleveland park. There was a road race (your choice of 25, 50 or 100 miles), a motorcycle rally and lots of joggers and hikers. We started with a visit to Szalay’s farm stand and then visited two visitor’s centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Local jellies and jams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Szalay’s produce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Us and the visitor’s center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cuyahoga River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cuyahoga River<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flowers at the visitor’s center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene, Becky and a bronze mule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was a mostly cloudy day but the rain held off while we toured the park. It rained on-and-off while on I-86. We stopped at the Seneca Casino for a bio break and, of course, played some slots. We were both lucky – I broke even (I count that as “lucky”) and Marlene won over $300, more than making up for her losses the previous night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We looked for a hotel in Corning NY but they were pricey. So we stopped for the night in Elmira NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

338 miles via OH 82, OH 8, OH 303, I-480, I-271, I-90 and I-86 with several sightseeing stops in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and a visit to the Seneca Allegheny Casino in Salamanca NY. Auto miles: 347. Cumulative route miles: 2855. Cumulative auto miles: 3051. This was a hop that wasn’t planned. It became … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,66,13,7,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hotels","category-places-ny","category-places-oh","category-places-pa","category-routes","category-tn_11"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3Sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15874,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions\/15874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}