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Mailing Address: 2045 Morse Road, Building F-1 Columbus, OH 43229-6693 (614) 265-6453
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Ohio recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Ohio Scenic Rivers Act which passed in 1968. Later, the Little Miami became Ohio's first state scenic river in 1974. Today, 26 stream segments totaling 800 river miles comprise the Ohio scenic river system. Learn more
Select a Preserve Acadia Cliffs Adams Lake Prairie Audubon Islands Aurora Sanctuary 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 Crooked Run Culberson 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 Memorial 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 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 (Little Beaver Creek) Sheldon Marsh Siegenthaler-Esker Smith Cemetery Springville Marsh Stage's Pond Swamp Cottonwood THOMAS (EDWARD S.) Tinker's Creek Triangle Lake Bog Tucker Tummonds Wahkeena Whipple Zimmerman Prairie
Select a River 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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