Tinker’s Creek enters the Cuyahoga River at River Mile (RM) 17, south of Tinker’s Creek Road in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Tinkers Creek is the largest tributary to the Cuyahoga River with a drainage area of 96 miles.

A northern run of Tinkers Creek originates in Warrensville Heights and flows south through Orange Village and into the city of Solon. In Solon, the run turns westward south of Solon road and continues flowing west through Oakwood into Bedford Heights. A southern run begins in Rminderville in Summit County.

This run flows south into Twinsburg and then turns northwest and flows into Glenwillow. The run continues northwest through Oakwwod and into Bedford Heights where it mergers with the northern run. The confluence is in the Cleveland Metroparks Hawthorne Parkway south of Solon Road.

The creek then flows northwest out of Bedford Heights and into Bedford. In the Cleveland Metroparks Bedford Reservation, a southern run, originating from tributaries in Oakwood and Walton Hills, mergers with Tinker’s Creek north of Gorge Parkway. From Bedford the creek turns west and flows through Walton Hills, finally entering the Cuyahoga River in Valley View.

The Tinkers Creek drainage area is primarily residential and recreation with some industry and agriculture.