📍Highlands Nature Sanctuary – Bainbridge, Ohio Walking into the gorge here feels like stepping through a portal — moss-covered stones, a whispering creek beneath a wooden bridge, and walls of green rising around you. It’s easy to imagine elves or hobbits wandering these same paths, hidden deep within Middle-earth. Once known as the Seven Caves, Highlands Nature Sanctuary is one of Ohio’s oldest and most sacred natural preserves, now protected by the Arc of Appalachia. Its limestone gorges and l