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There is a parking area off of Brandywine Road south of W Highland Rd. I visited on a holiday however and the lot was full, but lots of cars parked facing north on the eastern grassy shoulder of Brandywine Rd.
The falls are just off the roadway and are pretty accessible via nicely paved trails and newer wooden boardwalks and stairs. If you all want to do is see the falls you can be in and out in 20-30 minutes.
For more of an experience you can walk the 1.4 mile Brandywine Gorge Loop Trail. It will return you to the falls. Speaking clockwise, this trail is a northernly shoot off of the equidistant, but straight Stanford Trail. The portion of the Stanford Trail that you walk to get to the Brandywine Gorge Loop is downhill, uneven and degrading asphalt. You will know you need to turn right when you get to a historical display to the left and see concrete blocks in front of you. The Brandywine Gorge Trail is both up and downhill and is mostly a natural, and therefore uneven, trail. However, it is certainly a easy / beginners trail in my opinion.
Ledges
While I was impressed with the Falls, the Ledges were more impressive I thought as they are less common of a site.
There was plenty of parking at the head of his trail just off of Kendall Park Road south of 303 and west of Akron Cleveland Rd. If you walk north from the parking lot towards the trail start where the signage is you will take a connector path and join the trail. There is one part on the NE part of the trail that requires you to be fit, flexible, able to bend and climb, etc... I passed some people getting help down the trail at this point. The rest of the trail is uneven, up and downhill and probably beginner+.
The trial is well secluded from the road except for the overlook part which is probably behind where you will park. I thought the overlook was the least impressive part of the trail, but it is relatively easily accessible.
For navigating the park's trails I recommend the GPS based app REI National Parks. It works better than Google as it removes the tree layer so you can have a bird's eye view of the trail and your position.
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