Towpath Trail-John Glenn Grove Trailhead
Towpath Trail-John Glenn Grove Trailhead offers a scenic and accessible outdoor experience with mostly flat trails perfect for walking, biking, and hiking. Visitors can enjoy wildlife sightings such as turtles, frogs, muskrats, deer, and birds including eagles. The area is family-friendly and suitable for kids, featuring picnic tables and a public restroom (porta-potty). The trail is part of the Ohio Erie Towpath and Tuscarawas River corridor, with good parking and polite trail users. Note that mosquitos can be abundant in summer, so insect repellent is recommended.
Reviews
You can go as far as you’d like or turn around easily. It’s a beautiful trail. It’s also great for bicycles (tire pump with adapters) and horses (parking is good too). There are benches posted about a mile apart, and everyone we’ve ever walked past was polite. You’ll definitely see geese, but all kinds of critters to see in the water, tree line, and field; depending on when you go, of course.
Decent trailhead, well maintained but the restroom is a portapotty which always is awful.
Fun place for a quick walk or longer hike. The trail is mostly flat. It follows the Ohio Erie Towpath and Tuscarawas River. The is some occasional wildlife to see, deer, fox, geese, and if you’re lucky an eagle once in a while. MAKE SURE YOU BRING MOSQUITO SPRAY. In the summer mosquitos are abundant.
I really like this section of the towpath. We saw a lot of turtles and frogs. There was a muskrat eating in the canal. There were not a lot of people.
We did a 4 mile bike ride round trip , had to turn around cause of flooding but still very nice ride. We seen alot of turtles and ppl hiking the trails.