Cleveland/Cleveland Heights in December

[smileyguy]

I'm going to be working in Cleveland Heights for a week near the beginning of December and was wondering about some photographic outings. My schedule is random so I may be out mornings or afternoons.

I'm wondering about trails, architecture, abstracts but just generally getting out to shoot while I'm there.

Any ideas?

Your help is much appreciated.

 

[Kino]

Drive down into Cleveland Proper and the steel making area (the flats); you won't lack for something to shoot...

 

[Terence]

I agree. The flats has all sorts of movable bridges (lift, swing, bascule, etc), and the south end still has a steel mill.

There's a Great Lakes freighter turned into a museum with a fantastic engine room. It's by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (skip the Hall of Fame). I've always meant to ask permission to take a tripod into the engine room for a while.

I forget the name, but there's also an old train station (I think, but it might have always been a market) west of the flats that is now a green grocers market.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Are you thinking of the West Side Market? I grew up in Cleveland, and always enjoyed trips to the West Side Market, when I was a kid. It would be a great place to shoot. I don't think it was a train station, but it probably had (and perhaps continues to have) rail access for food coming by rail into the city.

For trails, you might also make it out to the Metroparks that form a ring around the city and suburbs. You could also catch the town of Chagrin Falls, if you wanted to head to the Metroparks in that area.

 

[Terence]

That would be it. It definitely had a railroad feel to it. Now that you mention it, I think it had a track embedded in the pavement on one side of it.

Another thing not to miss is Great Lakes Brewing. Their old bar is a great place to settle in on a chilly day.

 

[doughowk]

Nearby Case/Western Reserve Univ. had some interesting architecture (at least when I went there many years ago). Severance Hall & Cleveland Museum Art are also nearby.

 

[Lee L]

Nearby Case/Western Reserve Univ. had some interesting architecture (at least when I went there many years ago). Severance Hall & Cleveland Museum Art are also nearby.

That now includes a Gehry building, which is a bit difficult to get good sight lines on from what I hear.

http://www.case.edu/visit/tours/

Lee

 

[jp80874]

You might read through this thread. I tried to make a shopping list of things that might have photographic interest for visitors. There are a few of us who are local and will be happy to give more detail on any of these if it will help. I live in Bath between Cleveland and Akron.

If just hiking on trails is of interest I join a group called HikingHounds.com every Sunday morning. In warm weather we have 15 people and 20+ dogs. I take a pair of yellow Labrador Rescues for 3-5 miles. You are welcome to fly either one of them as long as you can hang on.

John Powers

Northern Ohio Gathering, Fall of 2008, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)