Cuyahoga Valley Railroad

Climb Aboard one of CVSR's climate-controlled passenger rail cars and feel the thrill as the whistle blows - signaling your journey is about to begin! Explore the length of Cuyahoga Valley National Park from the comfort of a vintage rail car. As you peer through the windows, you will see history and nature unfold. This is a 3 hour round trip. For thousands of years Indians used the Cuyahoga River and Valley in northern Ohio as a north-south transportation corridor. Later the Ohio and Erie Canal provided the early settlers a slow, but easy way to move bulk goods and people. In 1880, the first steam engine chugged its way down the new Valley Railway, signaling an era of progress and prosperity for the Cuyahoga Valley residents. Primarily built to transport coal; from south of Canton to Cleveland's growing industries, the Valley Railway also served the farmers, merchants and factories along its route. Depots piled high with farm produce dotted the valley section of the railroad line.