Once reserved for mountain towns, iron-rung climbing courses called via ferratas are showing up in places like Columbus, Ohio. Here’s where else to try one.

only Franklin Mountains State Park allows mountain biking on trails within the park. There are a few other great outdoor activities to enjoy in the park, and one of them is rock climbing.

Translated from the Italian phrase for iron way or road, a via ferrata is a mountain-climbing course comprised of steel rebar steps, handholds and safety cables drilled and epoxied into the rock face.