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Rock House, Ohio
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Rock House in Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio is a cave structure inside of a cliff face. Rock House is unique in the Hocking Hills' region, as it is the only true cave in the park. It is a tunnel-like corridor situated midway up a 150-foot cliff of Blackhand sandstone. This House of Rock has a ceiling 25 feet high while the main corridor is 200 feet long and 20 to 30 feet wide.
It's a 1/2 mile hike to Rock House and takes about 30 minutes.
Numerous dated carvings in the rock bear evidence of this area's long-standing popularity. One such carving in the form of a book bears the letters: ITFBRAR - ITFFAWMTAW which means, In the fall, Buck Run bananas are ripe - in the frost fall, a wise man takes a wife. (Buck Run banana is local slang for the fruit of the pawpaw tree.)
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