Reviews of Parks that We’ve Visited

Below are the parks and preserves that we have personally visited. To get information about a park that’s not listed here, check out the Regional Guide to Parks (organized geographically) or simply click on its link in the menu.

• 53rd Annual Hocking Hills Winter Hike, January 2018
• A.W. Marion State Park
• AEP ReCreation Land
• Alley Park
• Ariel Foundation Park
• Augusta-Anne Olsen State Nature Preserve
• Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park: the Voss Site
• Beach City Wildlife Area: Dundee Falls
• Big Rock
• Bigelow Cemetery State Nature Preserve
• Blackhand Gorge: Hiking Trails
• Blacklick Woods Metro Park
• Blendon Woods Metro Park
• Blue Heron Reserve in Sandusky County
• Boch Hollow State Nature Preserve
• Boch Hollow State Nature Preserve: Robinson Falls
• Boord State Nature Preserve
• Boyer Nature Preserve
• Buckeye Furnace and Ohio’s Nineteenth Century Iron Industry
• Burr Oak State Park
• Burton Wetlands Nature Preserve
• Caesar Creek Gorge State Nature Preserve
• Caesar Creek State Park
• Caesar Creek State Park: Horseshoe Falls, Crawdad Falls, and Suspension Bridge
• Cascade Valley South Metro Park
• Cedar Bog
• Chalet Nivale Preserve
• Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve
• Char-Mar Ridge Preserve
• Charleston Falls Preserve
• Chestnut Ridge Metro Park
• Christmas Rocks State Nature Preserve
• Clear Creek Metro Park
• Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve
• Conkle’s Hollow: The Gorge Trail
• Conkle’s Hollow: The Rim Trail
• Cranberry Bog: The World’s Only Floating Island
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Beaver Marsh
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Brandywine and Blue Hen Falls
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Brandywine Falls
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Ledges Trail
• Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Scenic Railroad
• Daughmer Prairie Savannah State Nature Preserve
• Davey Woods
• Davis Memorial State Nature Preserve
• Dawes Arboretum
• Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park
• Dillon State Park
• Earl H Barnhart “Buzzards Roost” Nature Preserve
• Edge of Appalachia: Buzzardroost Rock Trail
• Edge of Appalachia: Charles A. Eulett Wilderness Preserve Trail
• Edge of Appalachia: Joan Jones Portman Trail
• Edge of Appalachia: Lynx Prairie Trail
• Emily Traphagen Preserve
• Englewood Metro Park – Visiting Three Waterfalls
• Estel Wenrick Wetlands
• F. A. Seiberling Nature Realm
• Fallsville Wildlife Area – Waterfall
• Farnsworth Metropark
• Fort Hill
• Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve
• Gahanna Woods
• Gallagher Fen State Nature Preserve
• Gallant Woods Preserve
• Geneva State Park
• Gifford State Forest
• Glacial Grooves State Memorial
• Glen Helen Nature Preserve
• Goll Woods State Nature Preserve
• Gorge Metro Park
• Great Seal State Park
• Greenville Falls State Scenic River Area
• Harpersfield Covered Bridge MetroPark
• Hayden Falls
• Headlands Beach State Park – Ohio’s Largest Beach
• Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve
• Hell Hollow Wilderness Area
• Highbanks Metro Park
• Highlands Nature Sanctuary
• Hinckley Reservation: Whipps Ledges and Spillway Beach
• Hocking Hills State Park: Ash Cave
• Hocking Hills State Park: Cantwell Cliffs
• Hocking Hills State Park: Cedar Falls
• Hocking Hills State Park: Old Man’s Cave
• Hocking Hills State Park: Rock House
• Hocking Hills State Park: Rose Lake
• Hocking Hills State Park: Whispering Cave
• Hocking State Forest: Airplane Rock
• Hocking State Forest: Balanced Rock
• Hocking State Forest: Chapel Cave
• Hocking State Forest: Rock Climbing and Rappelling Area
• Holden Arboretum
• Holden Arboretum: Canopy Walk & Emergent Tower
• Honey Run Highlands Park
• Hoover Meadows
• Hoover Mudflats Boardwalk
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Mound City
• Hopewell Culture National Historical Park: Seip Mound
• Howard Collier State Nature Preserve
• Indian Mound Reserve
• Indianfield Bluffs Park
• John Bryan State Park
• Johnson Woods State Nature Preserve
• Kessler Swamp State Nature Preserve
• Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area
• Kiser Lake State Park
• Kiser Lake Wetlands State Nature Preserve
• Knox Woods State Nature Preserve and Wolf Run Regional Park
• Lake Hope State Park
• Lake Katharine State Nature Preserve
• Lakeside Daisy State Nature Preserve
• Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve
• Leo Petroglyph State Memorial
• Liberty Park: Ledges Trail
• Lockville Park
• Lowe-Volk Park
• Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
• Malabar Farm
• Malabar Farm Maple Syrup Festival – 2016
• Marblehead Lighthouse State Park
• Marie J Desonier State Nature Preserve
• Maumee Bay State Park: The Boardwalk
• Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve
• Metzger Marsh State Wildlife Area
• Miamisburg Mound
• Milford Center Prairie State Natural Area
• Mill Creek Park: Lanterman’s Mill and Mill Creek Gorge
• Miller Nature Sanctuary
• Mohican State Park
• Mt. Gilead State Park
• Nelson Kennedy Ledges State Park
• Newark Earthworks: The Great Circle and the Octagon Earthworks
• Oak Openings Metro Park
• Ohio Caverns
• Old Woman Creek State Nature Preserve
• Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
• Paine Falls Park
• Penitentiary Glen
• Pine Hill Park: Crall Woods
• Punderson Manor Lodge & Conference Center
• Ramser Arboretum
• Raven Rock State Nature Preserve
• Rhododendron Cove Nature Preserve
• Rising Park: The View from Mount Pleasant
• Rock Mill
• Rock Stalls Natural Sanctuary
• Rockbridge State Nature Preserve
• Salt Fork’s Stone House Museum
• Scioto Trail State Park
• Sears Woods
• Serpent Mound
• Seymour Woods State Natural Preserve
• Shale Hollow Preserve
• Shallenberger Nature Preserve
• Sharon Woods Metro Park
• Shawnee State Forest: Fall Hike on the Changed Day Hike Trail
• Shawnee State Park
• Shreve Lake Wildlife Area
• Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker
• Smith Cemetery State Nature Preserve
• Spring Valley Wildlife Area
• Stratford Woods
• Strouds Run State Park / Sells Park
• Strouds Run State Park: Rockhouse Trail
• Tar Hollow State Park
• Thayer Ridge Park
• The Ridges Trail in Athens, Ohio
• The Wilds
• Thompson Ledges
• Tinkers Creek State Nature Preserve
• Trimmer Arch
• Vermilion River Scenic Overlook at OH-2 Rest Area
• Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest: Hike to the Belgian Coke Ovens
• Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest
• Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest: Arch Rock
• Vinton Furnace State Experimental Forest: Watch Rock
• Wahkeena Nature Preserve
• Walnut Woods Metro Park
• Wayne National Forest (Athens Unit): Monroe Outlook
• Wayne National Forest (Athens Unit): Wildcat Hollow
• Wayne National Forest (Ironton Unit): Lake Vesuvius
• Wayne National Forest (Ironton Unit): Morgan Sisters Trail
• Wayne National Forest (Marietta Unit): Lamping Homestead
• Wayne National Forest (Marietta Unit): Scenic River Trail
• Wildwood Preserve in Metroparks Toledo
• Zaleski State Forest
• Zaleski State Forest: King’s Hollow Tunnel
• Zaleski State Forest: Lookout Rock
• Zaleski State Forest: Moonville Tunnel
• Zaleski State Forest: The Backpack Trail from Hope Schoolhouse