Stanford Parking Area Wetland Statement of Findings

The National Park Service (NPS) is partnering with the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park to construct a new parking lot to support equestrian and pedestrian visitors to the park at a site on Stanford Road near the Stanford House in the Village of Peninsula, Summit County, Ohio. The purpose of the proposed parking lot is to provide alternative parking for visitors outside of but near the Boston Mills area. The proposed lot would provide designated parking for approximately 15 horse trailers and 40 cars, including two spaces designated for handicapped accessibility. The project site is located about one-half mile north of the park's main visitor center, at the closed, southern end of Stanford Road.

A wetland delineation was completed in 2021 and found that wetland vegetation in the project area is dominated by non-native, invasive reed canarygrass with scattered shrubs, and that the upland areas at the site are dominated by non-native grasses with scattered trees and shrubs. Construction of the proposed parking lot would result in 0.73 acre of wetland impacts (permanent impacts to 0.366 acre of palustrine emergent (PEM) wetlands and temporary impacts to 0.365 acre of PEM wetlands).

Document Content:

StanfordRoad-Trailhead-Parking-Lot_Wetland-Statement-of-Findings_FINAL-FOR-PUBLIC-REVIEW_8Jan2024.pdf   (1.2 MB, PDF file) CVNP_Boston_Mills_Plan_and_EA.pdf   (11.6 MB, PDF file) CVNP_Boston_Mills_Plan_and_EA_Appendix_D.pdf   (2.7 MB, PDF file) Response to Comments.pdf   (133.6 KB, PDF file) Disclaimer: Links within the above document(s) were valid as of the date published. Note: Some of the files may be in PDF format and can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software. You may download a free copy of from Adobe Systems.