Chagrin Valley Cabin
The front of the Chagrin Valley seen from the Main Road. photo by Ann Marie Niziolek
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Chagrin Valley Cabin is a single room cabin with indoor and outdoor fireplaces as well as a furnace. It features a kitchen area with running water, and (at the time of this writing) has the finest outhouse on the property. A slab porch outside the back door is protected by an overhanging roof.
Chagrin Valley kitchen in 2011 when it was being used by the camp monitors. Photo by Aubrey Babicz
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Porch fireplace at Chagrin Valley Cabin , 2011. Photo by Aubrey Babicz
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The famed Chagrin Valley outhouse. photo by Aubrey Babicz, 2011
Background
Chagrin Valley Cabin was constructed with funds donated by the Chagrin Valley District of the Lake Erie Girl Scout Council (southeast Cuyahoga county see map below) It was finished in 1964 and the cabin first used on the weekend of February 5th, 1965. The first campers were two National Roundup patrols from C.V. district.
From October 2009 - December 2011, Chagrin Valley was assigned to volunteer camp monitors.
From 2016 through 2018, the cabin was being prepped for use as a field station for Baldwin Wallace University under the direction of Dr. Chris Stanton.
Chagrin Valley Cabin was constructed with funds donated by the Chagrin Valley District of the Lake Erie Girl Scout Council (southeast Cuyahoga county see map below) It was finished in 1964 and the cabin first used on the weekend of February 5th, 1965. The first campers were two National Roundup patrols from C.V. district.
From October 2009 - December 2011, Chagrin Valley was assigned to volunteer camp monitors.
From 2016 through 2018, the cabin was being prepped for use as a field station for Baldwin Wallace University under the direction of Dr. Chris Stanton.
GSLEC community association map showing the location of the old Chagrin Valley District in southeast Cuyahoga County. It included Bedford, Bentleyville, Chagrin Falls, part of Cleveland, Glen Willow, Hunting Valley, Moreland Hills, Orange, Pepper Pike, Solon, and Woodmere.