Welcome to Columbus & Franklin County Metro Parks

Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks (Metro Parks) is a public agency serving the citizens of central Ohio by providing a regional system of clean, safe, natural area parks. Metro Parks features 20 outstanding natural area parks with more than 230 miles of trails and over 28,900 acres of land in seven central Ohio counties.

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The Dinosaur that Survived the Asteroid

TIFFANY GUO Glacier Ridge Seasonal Naturalist The time of dinosaurs would seemingly be forever lost in the instant that a massive chunk of rock and metal hurled into Earth at …Read More

How are we Doing? Survey Says…

HOLLY WILLER Visitor Engagement Administrative Assistant Go Ahead – Complete the Metro Parks Community Survey I have a confession. I LOVE filling out surveys. A quick survey at the end …Read More

Behind the Parks: Meet Cara Chatfield Rohrbaugh at Highbanks

Cara Chatfield Rohrbaugh is talking with Communications Coordinator, Virginia Gordon Hometown and Background I’m from Springfield, Ohio, which is a little under 50 miles west of Columbus. My sister, Annie, …Read More

Bargain Hunters – The Rose Trellis

RICK McGIVERN, Finance Director, TREVOR WILLIAMS, Construction Manager, and BRYAN KNOWLES, Inniswood Public Gardens Manager RICK McGIVERN, Finance Director A signature attraction at Inniswood Metro Gardens has long been the …Read More