Once reserved for mountain towns, iron-rung climbing courses called via ferratas are showing up in places like Columbus, Ohio ...

GIBSONBURG ― The total solar eclipse was clear overhead Monday around the Silver Rock Quarry. Area residents and visitors were busy enjoying recreational activities and finding places to watch ...

They affixed a series of rungs, ladders and cables to the rock to assist in climbing ... most in the western U.S. The closest via ferrata options to Ohio includes routes in the Appalachian ...

Yellow perennial grows in rock barrens with shallow soils ... Standard Slag Company’s (now LaFarge) quarry was acquired by the state of Ohio and made into a dedicated state nature preserve ...