Ohio Nature Preserves

and

Natural Areas

See beautiful ODNR photos of Ohio Nature Preserves

Permits are required to visit some of Ohio's Preserves and Natural Areas.

Click on the link following the Area's name to apply for a Permit online.

The Permits are free, but require at least 14 days, preferably more, for processing before you plan to visit.

COUNTY NATURAL AREAS & PRESERVES

ADAMS Adams Lake Prairie

Chaparral Prairie

Davis Memorial

Johnson Ridge

Straight Creek Prairie

Whipple

ALLEN Kendrick Woods

ASHLAND Clear Fork Gorge

ASHTABULA Conneaut Swamp

Pallister (Permit Required)

William C. McCoy (Permit Required)

Rome (Permit Required)

Scenic River: Grand (Lake)

Scenic River: Conneaut Creek

ATHENS Acadia Cliffs (Washington)

Desonier

Riddle

BELMONT Emerald Hills (Permit Required)

BUTLER Hueston Woods (Preble)

CHAMPAIGN Cedar Bog

Davey Woods

Kiser Lake Wetlands

Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker

CLARK Crabill Fen (Permit Required)

Gallagher/Springfield Fen

(Permit Required)

Prairie Road Fen (Permit Required)

Scenic River: Little Miami (Hamilton /Warren)

CLERMONT Crooked Run

Scenic River: Little Miami

(Clark, Greene, Hamilton, Warren)

CLINTON Culberson Woods

COLUMBIANA Sheepskin Hollow

Scenic River: Little Beaver Creek

COSHOCTON Scenic River: Kokosing (Knox)

CRAWFORD Carmean Woods

Sears Woods

Scenic River: Chagrin Geauga/Lake/Portage)

DARKE Drew Woods

Scenic River: Stillwater (Miami/Montgomery)

DEFIANCE Scenic River: Maumee

DELAWARE Hutchins (Highbanks)

Seymour Woods

Stratford Woods (Permit Required)

Scenic River: Olentangy

ERIE DuPont Marsh

Erie Sand Barrens

North Pond

North Shore Alvar

Old Woman Creek

Sheldon Marsh

FAIRFIELD Christmas Rocks (Permit Required)

Clear Creek (Hocking)

Pickerington Ponds (Franklin)

Rhododendron Cove (Permit Required)

Shallenberger

Tucker

Wahkeena

FRANKLIN Gahanna Woods

Pickerington Ponds (Fairfield)

Thomas (Edward S.) Preserve

Scenic Rivers: Big & Little Darby Creeks

(Madison/Pickaway/Union)

FULTON Goll Woods

GEAUGA Burton Wetlands

Spring Brook Sanctuary (Permit Required)

White Pine Bog Forest (Permit Required)

Scenic River: Chagrin

(Cuyahoga/Lake/Portage)

Scenic River: Upper Cuyahoga (Portage)

GREENE Clifton Gorge

Travertine Fen (Permit Required)

Zimmerman Prairie

HAMILTON Greenbelt (Permit Required)

Newberry (Permit Required)

Sharon Woods Gorge

Spring Beauty Dell

Trillium Trails (Permit Required)

Warder-Perkins (Permit Required)

Scenic River: Little Miami

(Greene/Clermont/Clark/Warren)

HARDIN Lawrence Woods

HENRY Scenic River: Maumee

(Defiance/Lucas/Paulding/Wood)

HIGHLAND Etawah Woods (Permit Required)

Miller (Permit Required)

HOCKING Clear Creek (Fairfield)

Conkle's Hollow

Crane Hollow (Permit Required)

Kessler Swamp

Little Rocky Hollow (Permit Required)

Rockbridge

Saltpetre Cave (Permit Required)

Sheick Hollow (Permit Required)

HOLMES Bonnett Pond (Permit Required)

HURON Augusta-Anne Olsen

JACKSON Lake Katharine

KNOX Knox Woods

Scenic River: Kokosing (Coshocton)

LAKE Hach-Otis

Headlands Dunes

Mentor Mars

Scenic River: Chagrin

(Cuyahoga/Geauga/Portage)

Scenic River: Grand (Ashtabula/Lake)

LAWRENCE Compass Plant Prairie

LICKING Blackhand Gorge

Cranberry Bog (Permit Required)

Morris Woods

LOGAN McCracken Fen (Permit Required)

Owens Fen (Permit Required)

LUCAS Audubon Islands

Lou Campbell Prairie (Permit Required)

Irwin Prairie

Kitty Todd

Scenic River: Maumee (Defiance/Henry

/Paulding/Wood)

MADISON Bigelow Cemetery

Smith Cemetary

Scenic River: Big Darb

(Union/Pickaway)

MAHONING Kyle Woods

MEDINA Swamp Cottonwood

MERCER Baker Woods(Permit Required)

MIAMI Goode Prairie

Greenville Falls

Scenic River: Stillwater (Darke/Montgomery)

MONROE Rothenbuhler Woods (Permit Required)

MONTGOMERY Scenic River: Stillwater (Darke/Miami)

OTTAWA Lakeside Daisy

PAULDING Scenic River: Maumee

(Defiance/Henry/Lucas/Wood)

PICKAWAY Stage's Pond

Scenic River: Big Darby Creek

(Franklin/Union)

PIKE Strait Creek Prairie (Permit Required)

PORTAGE Aurora Sanctuary

Cooperrider/Kent Bog

Beck Evans Memorial (Permit Required)

Eagle Creek

FlatIron Lake Bog (Permit Required)

Frame Lake Fen

Gott Fen (Permit Required)

Mantua Bog (Permit Required)

Marsh Wetlands

Novak Sanctuary

Tinker's Creek (Summit)

Triangle Lake Bog

Tummonds

Scenic River: Chagrin

(Cuyahoga/Geauga/Lake)

Scenic River: Upper Cuyahoga

PREBLE Hueston Woods (Butler)

RICHLAND Fowler Woods

ROSS Betsch Fen (Permit Required)

SANDUSKY Scenic River: Sandusky

(Seneca/Wyandot)

SCIOTO Raven Rock (Permit Required)

SENECA Howard Collier

Springville Marsh

Scenic River: Sandusky

(Sandusky/Wyandot)

SHELBY Gross Memorial Woods

STARK Jackson Bog

Lash's Bog

SUMMIT Karlo Fen (Permit Required)

Myersville Fen (Permit Required)

Portage Lakes Wetlands

Tinker's Creek (Portage)

UNION Milford Center Railroad Prairie

Scenic River: Big Darby Creek

(Franklin/Pickaway)

WARREN Caesar Creek Gorge

Halls Creek Woods

Scenic River: Little Miami

WASHINGTON Acadia Cliffs (Athens)

Boord Nature Preserve

Ladd Natural Bridge (Permit Required)

WAYNE Brown's Lake Bog

Johnson Woods

WILLIAMS Mud Lake Bog (Permit Required)

WOOD Scenic River: Maumee

(Defiance/Henry/Lucas/Paulding)

WYANDOT Scenic River: Sandusky

(Seneca/Sandusky)