Best places: Nature preserves in North College Hill, United States

335 acres of prairie, forest & wetland habitat with walking trails, a kids’ garden & a gift shop.

👍👍 A lovely nature preserve surrounded by urban sprawl. It is moderately peaceful. The walking trails have several neat wooden bridges over small streams. Large, old trees of many varieties provide a shady canopy on hot sunny days. My family visited in October just as the leaves were beginning to chang...

👍 Excellent park. Great trails, well maintained. It’s always quiet and peaceful there and well worth the trip. Don’t get fooled though by the wildflowers part advertised on the map, it’s just a meadow, or simply a field. (In the fall, mostly goldenrod). Still pretty though and lots of photo ops. For t...

👍 The leaves are squeezing orange, lemon and lime colors! One of my fave places for Autumn this year. It’s sort of a wet day and the steps are a bit slippery but my 4 year old niece puddles through it. She’s thrill of the “rain shower” leaves pouring over her. It’s magical to watch her in awe of natur...

👍👍 No one else on the trail this evening. Massive trees in this little park so close to the city. A little vegetation encroachment on some parts of the trail but very clearly marked. Kind of feels like the forest primeval.

🫤 Nice trails but the homeless gang camped out in a tent worried me.