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Blue Rock State Forest: Muskingum County: 4,578 acres Brush Creek State Forest: Rarden: 13,515 acres Cravat State Forest: Belmont County: 350 acres Dean State Forest: Lawrence County: 2,745 acres (10 km 2) Fernwood State Forest: Jefferson County: 3,023 acres Gifford State Forest: Athens County: 320 acres (1.3 km 2) Harrison State Forest ...
Hocking Hills State Park is a state park in the Hocking Hills region of Hocking County, Ohio, United States.In some areas the park adjoins the Hocking State Forest.Within the park are over 25 miles (40 km) of hiking trails, rock formations, waterfalls, and recess caves.
Also found within Mohican-Memorial State Forest is the Memorial Forest Shrine Park, covering 270 acres (1.1 km 2). In the Memorial Forest Shrine Park there is a chapel-like shrine that has the names of all 20,000 soldiers from Ohio who lost their lives in World War II , the Korean War , the Vietnam War , and the Persian Gulf War .
Within the forested area of the park is the Walter A. Tucker State Nature Preserve preserving one of the oldest Beech-maple forest in central Ohio. In the southern area of the preserve you can find an assortment of white and pin oak, white ash with specimens of red maple, red elm, shagbark and bitternut hickory, hophornbeam, American hornbeam ...
Miami Whitewater Forest: Cincinnati: Hamilton: Southwest: 4,345 acres, operated by the Hamilton County Park District, visitor center features nature displays and a gift shop Narrows Reserve & Nature Center: Xenia: Greene: Southwest: website, operated by Greene County Parks, 162 acres, features native plant and animal exhibits, raptor aviary and ...
The state bought the land in 1941, but the park did not open until 1957. The state used the land initially as a prison camp. [citation needed] In 1956, Four Mile Creek was dammed to form Acton Lake, named for Clyde Acton, the member of the Ohio General Assembly who persuaded the legislature to buy the property. [4]
Shawnee State Forest, also known as "Ohio's Little Smokies", is a state forest in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is located in western Scioto County and eastern Adams County and encompasses 63,747 acres (25,797 ha) of woodland.
Headlands Beach State Park is at the northern terminus of State Route 44 and the Buckeye Trail. [5] The park is between the Mentor Marsh and the Grand River.It is next to Fairport Harbor Coast Guard station and a Morton Salt mine [6] and abuts two other protected areas, Headlands Dunes State Nature Preserve to the east and Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve to the west.