Tinkers Creek (Cuyahoga River Tributary)
Tinker's Creek, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga, Summit County, Ohio, Summit and Portage County, Ohio, Portage counties, is the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, providing about a third of its flow into Lake Erie. History Tinker's Creek was named after Captain Joseph Tinker, the principal boatsman of Moses Cleaveland's survey crew, who died in a boating accident while returning to New England in the fall of 1797. Tinker's Creek Gorge Thousands of years ago, when the Wisconsinian Glaciation retreated, dips and valleys like Tinker's Creek Gorge Elevation: were created due to erosion in the underlying shale. The awesome, severely sloped gorge sculpted by Tinker's Creek became a National Natural Landmark in 1967. A raised viewpoint over the gorge is easily accessible from the Gorge Parkway in the Cleveland Metroparks' Bedford Reservation. The stream is sometimes run in whitewater kayaks and is arguably the most challenging creek in the state of Ohio (when there is enough ...
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