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Clear Creek Metro Park is a nature preserve located at 185 Clear Creek Road in Rockbridge, Ohio, just off U.S. Route 33. [1] It is part of the Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks system. [1] It also contains the largest Ohio State Nature Preserve. Open 6:30 am until dark, the park is home to over 800 plant species and over 150 species of ...
The most remote of all Columbus Metro Parks, Clear Creek is located near Rockbridge in the Hocking Hills region of southeast Ohio. Nearly the entire park is designated a State Nature Preserve, making off trail activity prohibited. Unique features of the park include stands of hemlock trees, numerous deep hollows, and wildflowers.
The park's 2.75-mile (4.43 km) trail system [3] includes two loop trails, one of which passes the natural bridge, while the other passes a rock shelter. Both formations are located a short distance from the Hocking River on small tributaries. The preserve was acquired by the state of Ohio in 1978. [2]
If you didn’t know already, the 2,356-acre Hocking Hills State Park is home to the best hiking trails in the nation in USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice 2024, per a story from the Columbus Dispatch.
Clear Creek is a tributary of the Hocking River. It starts in western Fairfield County and flows southwest into northern Hocking County . In the upper half of the creek's watershed was glaciated and currently has a large amount of agricultural land use.
Clear Creek (Great Miami River), a tributary of the Great Miami River in southwestern Ohio; Clear Creek (Hocking River), a tributary of the Hocking River in southeastern Ohio; Clear Creek (Rocky River tributary), a stream in Cabarrus County, North Carolina; Clear Creek (Pennsylvania), a tributary of the Clarion River in northwestern Pennsylvania
The geological series that forms the Hocking Hills extends south and west, gradually diminishing but still forming impressive bluffs and gorges in: Clear Creek Metro Park, part of the Columbus and Franklin County Metropolitan Park District; Rising Park in Lancaster; Wahkeena Memorial State Nature Preserve in Fairfield County
Name County Size Image Year established; acres km 2; A. W. Marion State Park: Pickaway: 454: 1.84: 1950 Adams Lake State Park: Adams: 96: 0.39: 1950 Alum Creek State Park