Are you ready to get outside?

Metro Parks are ideal places to help you feel one with nature. You can take a stroll on more than 230 miles of trails, enjoy more active pursuits such as biking, canoeing, hiking, and even bring your leashed pet for a leisurely walk in the woods. There are nature centers, natural play areas, picnic shelters, fishing places, even a climbing wall and via ferrata. Come explore, it’s your nature!

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Behind the Parks: Tom Kirker at Slate Run

Tom Kirker Part-time Ranger, Slate Run Metro Park Hometown and Background I grew up in Bexley, on the campus of Capital University. My dad was the Dean of Men at …Read More

Not all rivers are created equal

ELAINE HALL Assistant Resource Manager From lazy rivers that are deep, wide, slow and flat, to white water and small streams that are shallow, narrow, fast and rigid — not …Read More

Inclusive Playground at Metro Parks: A Space for All Abilities to Play, Explore and Grow

JILL SNYDER Visitor Engagement Manager Metro Parks is thrilled to announce the upcoming dedication of a fabulously innovative inclusive playground designed to provide an accessible, welcoming and fun experience for …Read More

Through My Lenses—How My Whitetail Deer Journey Began

ROBERT MATT BRIGNER Guest Blogger Growing up in Hilliard, Ohio, in the early 1970s, wildlife wasn’t something I saw every day. The town was small, surrounded by farmland and livestock, …Read More

Get Outside, It’s Your Nature!