Together  the Hocking Hills State Park areas offer over 25 miles of hiking trails. Many have huge cascading waterfalls, breathtaking cliff overlooks and unique rock formations. Several, like Ash Cave and Conkle's Hollow, offer handicap accessible trails. All but Conkle's Hollow (a nature preserver) allow responsible pet owners to hike with their dogs as long as they are on a leash.

The park offers year around programs including night hikes, owl prowls and special events like Winter Hike.

Within a short driving distance of Springwood Cabins are such parks as Lake Logan State Park, Rock Bridge State Nature Preserver, Lake Hope State Park, Wayne National Forest, Tar Hollow, Clear Creek Metro Park and Hocking Hills State Forest.

The Hocking Hills region of Southern Ohio is a geologically and ecologically unique place. As the Wisconsin glacier from the last ice age pushed down from Canada across the flat swamps and plains of northern Ohio, it stopped just a few miles north of the Hocking Hills and in the process, forced a southern flow of flora and fauna from the north.  As a result, there is plant and animal life native to northern Canada that is found uniquely in this small area of the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.  Before even these massive glaciers came to Ohio, water runoff from the formation of the Appalachian Mountains carried with it the sand and gravel which formed the building blocks of the rolling hills of Southeastern Ohio. Almost as fast as the hills were built, the same water began carving caves, rock outcroppings and waterfalls in our amazing wonderland of nature. The area is rich with prehistoric and Native American history.