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Finding a quest box
Questing is the new adventure series in the Ohio and Erie Canalway. Put on your sleuthing cap to discover natural and cultural gems and find the hidden box!
What is Questing?
Cuyahoga Valley National Park, along with Cleveland Metroparks; Stark Parks; Cascade Locks Park Association; Metro Parks, Serving Summit County; and Ohio & Erie Canalway Association, introduces this new interactive recreational activity to Northeast Ohio.
Unlike geocaching, questing requires no GPS unit and no trinkets are exchanged. You only need a pen or pencil, an ink pad, and walking shoes to follow rhyming clues and a curious map. When you find a quest box, collect its unique stamp, sign its logbook, and then re-hide it for others. (Some people prefer using their own signature stamp and ink pad or marker to log in, and collect quest stamps in their own journal. Please do not log in using the stamp inside the quest box.)
When to Go
The questing seasons will run from Friday, April 15 through Tuesday, November 15.
Questing History
Cuyahoga Valley National Park and its partners are modeling this project on the successful Valley Quest program in New England. The project began in March 2010 with a series of two-day workshops lead by national questing expert Steven Glazer, who directed the Valley Quest program for 10 years and specializes in connecting people with places. To date, more than 100 Northeast Ohio teachers, volunteers, and park staff have been involved in launching Canalway Questing. During the six-week pilot season last fall, an estimated 370 individuals made at least 650 quest box visits. About 7% completed six or more quests. One person did at least 20.
Which Quest To Do?
Each Canalway Quest reflects the personality of its authors and setting. Click here to link to a table to help you decide which adventures are best for you.
Visit the "Canalway Samplers" section of the Ohio & Erie Canalway Questing website for fun things you can do while visiting an area for several hours.
The Quests
The links below open to a pdf of each quest. Some are slow to open. They are 8.5" X 14". You can print them on 8.5" X 11" paper if you select letter size paper and scale the pdf to fit the page.
Cleveland Metroparks
Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation
A Quest for What Moves You (version 1- for all audiences)
A Quest for What Moves You (version 2 - for those with limited mobility)
CVNP/Canal Visitor Center
Hell's Half Acre Quest
CVNP/Boston Store Visitor Center
On the Move Quest (Construction has impacted two clues: the NO BICYCLES sign is temporarily down and the TWO BUSHES are gone. With care, you can still find the box. We plan to revise this quest once construction is completed.)
Notorious Boston Quest
Boston's Foundations Quest
CVNP/Brandywine Falls
Relationships With Water Quest (Is unavailable in 2011 due to construction at the trailhead parking lot.)
CVNP/Ledges Area
Layers of the Ledges Quest
Forces That Build Quest
Sandy Rock Quest
CVNP/Kendall Lake
1, 2, 3 Come Quest With Me
Toboggan Run Quest
CVNP/Peninsula Area
Questing Lock to Lock
Pondering Peninsula Quest
CVNP/Southern Area
A Quest for What Lives Here
Beaver Marsh Quest
Tracks Through Time Quest
Cascade Locks Park/Mustill Store
Mustill Store Quest
Deep Lock Quarry Metropark
A Quest for a Quarry or Two
Hampton Hills Metropark
Top O' the World Quest
Stark Parks
Magnolia Mill Quest
Historic Canal Fulton Quest
A Canal Mule's Quest
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Quest is the trade name of Valley Quest, White River Jct, VT and is used with permission: www.valleyquest.org. If you'd like to bring questing to your community, contact Steve Glazer at steve@poeticsofplace.com.
For More Information
Arrye Rosser, interpretive and education specialist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, manages the Canalway Questing project. Contact her at e-mail us or call (440) 546-5992.
