parks

Great Council State Park opened this month – the first and only to feature a center honoring Ohio’s Native peoples.

Metro Parks opened its new Treetop Canopy Walk at Blacklick Woods on May 17. The 40-to 50-foot high wood and metal structure takes visitors through the forest from a birds eye view.

The Linden Green Line will stretch from Windsor Park near 17th Avenue to Cooper Park in the Northland community along an abandoned rail line.

Today is Bert Szabo Day in Summit Metro Parks. Szabo spent 34 years with the park district as its first naturalist and helped launch the popular Fall Hiking Spree, among other things.

Six months into the coronavirus pandemic, and four months after Ohio Governor Mike DeWine allowed playgrounds to reopen, the backboards on the basketball court at Herman Park in Cleveland are empty squares, devoid of baskets. The swingsets are empty too, except for some creaking hooks that are supposed to hold the swings.

Columbus City Council expects to approve grant money Monday night for the Department of Recreation and Parks to implement a youth soccer program.The grant…

Amid high temperatures and a pandemic, green spaces are a lifeline. But new data shows parks in low-income and nonwhite areas are smaller and more crowded than those in high-income and white areas.

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission has released data on how the pandemic affected travel in the region.Beginning in mid-March, traffic dropped…

Moving up three spots from last year, Cincinnati's parks rank fifth among the nation's largest 100 cities by the Trust for Public Land.

A group of experts is working with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources by taking a close look at Ohio’s 75 state parks to find out what kind of…