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Mailing Address: 2045 Morse Road, Building F-1 Columbus, OH 43229-6693 (614) 265-6453
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The Natural Areas Discovery Series features guided hikes, interpretive activities and a chance to meet nature preserve staff. Choose an event near you
Select a Preserve Acadia Cliffs Adams Lake Prairie Audubon Islands Aurora Sanctuary Baker Woods Bigelow Cemetery Prairie Blackhand Gorge Boord Brown's Lake Bog Burton Wetlands Caesar Creek Gorge Carmean Woods Cedar Bog Chaparral Prairie Clear Creek Clear Fork Gorge Clifton Gorge Collier Compass Plant Prairie Conkle's Hollow Conneaut Swamp Cranberry Bog Crooked Run Culberson Woods Davey Woods Davis Memorial Desonier Drew Woods Dupont Marsh Eagle Creek Erie Sand Barrens Fowler Woods Gahanna Woods Goll Woods Goode Prairie Greenville Falls Gross Woods Hach-Otis Halls Creek Woods Headlands Dunes Herrick Fen Hueston Woods Hutchins (Highbanks) Irwin Prairie Jackson Bog Johnson Ridge Johnson Woods Kendrick Woods Kent (Cooperrider) Bog Kessler Swamp Kiser Lake Wetlands Kitty Todd Knox Woods Kyle Woods Lake Katharine Lakeside Daisy Lawrence Woods Lou Campbell Marsh Wetlands Mentor Marsh Milford Center Prairie Morris Woods North Pond North Shore Alvar Novak Old Woman Creek Olsen (Augusta-Anne) Pickerington Ponds Portage Lakes Wetland Riddle Rockbridge Sears Woods Seymour Woods Shallenberger Sharon Woods Gorge Sheepskin Hollow Sheldon Marsh Shoemaker Siegenthaler-Esker Smith Cemetery Prairie Springville Marsh Stage's Pond Stratford Woods Swamp Cottonwood Thomas (Sharon Woods) Tinker's Creek Triangle Lake Bog Tucker (Blacklick) Tummonds Wahkeena Whipple Zimmerman Prairie
Select a River Ashtabula Big & Little Darby Kokosing Mohican Olentangy Chagrin Conneaut Creek Grand Little Beaver Creek Upper Cuyahoga Maumee Sandusky Little Miami Stillwater/Greenville Creek
Map of 89 preserves open to the public. In addition 42 state nature preserves are open only through a written permit, so that sensitive habitats can be protected more carefully. map
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