Cuyahoga Valley NP - Buckeye Trail South from Ira Trailhead

A scenic portion of the Buckeye Trail, climbing out of and then along the ridge of several ravines. Route starts with a short stretch on the Towpath Trail and then a very short but unfortunate stretch on Ira Road. The trailhead was extremely busy (surprisingly so for the middle of a weekday), but it seems that almost everybody was heading north along the Towpath Trail toward Beaver Marsh. I saw only one person on the Towpath south of the trailhead and encountered nobody once entering the natural-surface portion from Ira Road. With Winnie.