Nature reserves in Ohio
Land set aside and kept that way — refuges, game lands and wilderness, each held by somebody who says so on the record.
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- Alum Creek State Park
- Blacklick Woods Metro Park
- Harrison Lake State Park
- Oak Openings Preserve Metropark
- Mount Gilead State Park
- Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker State Nature Preserve
- Fernald Preserve
- Slate Run Metro Park
- Van Buren State Park
- Pike Lake State Park
- Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge
- Madison Lake State Park
- Mohican Memorial State ForestBuilt 1949
- Malabar Farm State ParkNational Register
- Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge
- Jessie Smith Wildlife Preserve
- Samson-Obrist Woods
- Rawson Woods
- Spruce Hill
- Three Creeks Metro Park
- Ka-ma-ma Prairie
- Mosquito Creek State Wildlife Area
- Jefferson Lake State Park
- Broughton Nature Park
- Middle Bass Island State Park
- Strouds Run State Park
- Triangle Lake Bog State Nature Preserve
- Gladys Riley
- Rowe Woods
- Boord State Nature Preserve
- Quiverheart Gorge
- Webster Park
- Plum Run Prarie
- Singer Lake Bog
- Chalet Nivale Nature Preserve
- Charles Alley Nature Park
- Morris Woods State Nature Preserve
- Rockbridge State Nature Preserve
- Marie J. Desonier State Nature Preserve
- Ohio River Bluffs
- Stage's Pond State Nature Preserve
- Clear Creek Metro Park
- Ohio Hanging Rock Preserve
- Tom S Cooperrider-Kent Bog State Nature Preserve
- Cliff Run Nature Preserve
- Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge - Gallipolis Island
- Grailville Nature Preserve
- Lake La Su An Wildlife Area
- Tucker Run Preserve
- Sherwin Preserve & Bird Sanctuary
- Restricted Area Eagle Nest
- Rothenbuhler Woods Nature Preserve
- Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area
- Trimble Township Community Forest
- Mccracken Fen State Nature Preserve
- Newberry Wildlife Sanctuary
- Denison Biological Reserve / Polly Anderson Field Station
- Poston Nature Preserve
- Brukner Nature Center
- Kroger Wetlands
- Hintz Hollow Preserve
- Hancock County Wetland
- Keller-Kirn Park
- Metzger Marsh
- Walkers Meadow
- Gross Woods Nature Preserve
- Old Town Creek Access
- University Prairie Reserve
- Edison Woods Reserve
- Camp Knee-Bow
- Duff Woods Preserve
- Huntley-Beatty Preserve
- Scott Creek Preserve
- Greenspur
- Prokesh & Watson Tracts
- Johnson Nature Preserve
- Paradise Hill Nature Preserve
- Bluffton Nature Preserve
- Audubon Islands Nature Preserve
- Sebring Woods
- Dillion State Park
- Vogelsong Conservation Area
- Sugar Island Preserve
- Deep Lock Quarry Metro Park
- Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge
- Native Praire Habitat
- Ferald Ritchie Nature Preserve
- Little Girard Creek Conservation Park
- Sunnybrook Preserve
- Raemelton Therapeutic Equestrian CenterBuilt 1995
- Monarch Waystation
- Grimm Prairie - Ottawa NWR
- Terradise Nature Preserve
- Forest Ridge Preserve
- Conkles Hollow State Nature Preserve
- Brush Creek Wildlife Area
- Clear Creek
- Glen High Parkland
- Strouds Ridge Preserve COAD Tract
- Restricted Area Eagle Nest
- Bachelor Preserve North Loop
- Edward S. Thomas Nature Preserve
- Rock Mill Lake Wildlife Area
- Nero Nature Preserve
- Mackey Ford State Wildlife Area
- Cross Mound Park
- River Ridge Nature Preserve
- Big Darby Headwaters Nature Preserve
- Refugee Preserve
- Edward F. Hutchins Nature Preserve
- Fox Marsh Wildlife Area
- Dorset Wildlife Area
- Strongsville Backyard Preserve
- Bass Lake Preserve
- Lawrence Woods State Nature Preserve
- Lakeside Daisy State Nature Preserve
- Turkeyfoot Preserve
- Marietta Run Preserve
- Resthaven Wildlife Area
- Kiser Lake Wetlands Nature Preserve
- Meadow Ridge Metropark
- Poston Nature Preserve - North Tract
- Gosnell Preserve
- Little Portage Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Lois Busch Winner Nature Preserve
- Louis W. Campbell State Nature Preserve
- Tarpy's Woods
- Blair Preserve
- Kipton Reservation
- Fowler Woods State Nature Preserve
- Myeerah Nature Preserve
- Stern (Elstun Rd.) Preserve
- Jordan Creek Park
- Schneider Preserve
- Sawmill Creek Preserve
- Baldwin Creek Preserve
- Sunfish Creek State Forest
- Turkey Run Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Ed Curilla Preserve
- Scenic Vista Park
- Shawnee Prairie Preserve
- Colfax Lake
- John and Marion Becker Cedar Falls PreserveBuilt 2020
- The Coupling Reserve
- Silvoor Biological Sanctuary
- Helen S. Ruder Preserve
- River Road Park
- Ashtabula County Wildlife & Conservation League
- Sweet Arrow Reserve
- Makris Parkland
- Gully Brook Park
- Kenney Park Nature Preserve
- Beaverkettle Farms Conservation Land
- Turtle Creek Island Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Quaker Ridge Arboretum & Nature Trails
- Grand River Conservation Campus
- Lake Erie Islands Nature & Wildlife Center
- E. Lucy Braun Lynx Prairie Preserve
- Chapin Forest Reservation
- Erie Sand Barrens Nature Preserve
- Myers Woods
- Raven Rock
- Rocky Creek Parkland
- Mud Lake Bog Nature Preserve
- Buzzard's Roost Nature Preserve
- Poston Nature Preserve - South Tract
- Mesopotamia Hunting Area
- Oldtown Creek Preserve
- Miller Blue Hole Wildlife Area
- Pickerington Pond Wetlands Nature Preserve
- Greeno Woods
- Narrows Reserve
- Samuel L. Fox Preserve
- Rush Run Parkland
- Bigelow Cemetery State Nature Preserve
- Miller Sanctuary State Nature Preserve
- Beavercreek Wildlife Recreation Area
- Stillwater Prairie Reserve
- Carmean Woods State Nature Preserve
- Brook Wildlife Area
- Buffchardd Preserve
- Middle Bass Island East Point Preserve
- Peach Preserve
- Broken Aro Wildlife Area
- Children's Home Tract
- Delaware Reservoir Wildlife Area
- Stroth-Rader Habitat Conservation Area
- Middle Toussaint Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Little Miami Conservancy Preserve
- Southbridge Nature Preserve
- Wilson Nature Preserve
- Lamb Preserve
- Terra Vista Natural Study Area
- Reinhart Preserve
- Catawba Island Nature Preserve
- Hellbender Bluff Park
- Willard Marsh Wildlife Area
- Georgesville Green Parkland
- Avon Wetlands
- Charleston Falls Preserve
- Davey Woods Nature Preserve
- Mentor Marsh State Nature Preserve
- Benjamin Woods Preserve
- Big Creek at Liberty Hollow
- Big Creek Park
- Aquilla Lake Wildlife Area
- Holden Arboretum
- Conneaut State Wildlife Area
- Pleasant Valley State Wildlife Area
- Bluebell Preserve
- Ramser Arboretum MVNU Woods
- Kreisel Preserve
- North Shore Alvar Nature Preserve
- Glenshire Reserve
- Stoney Hill Preserve
- Ross Lake State Wildlife Area
- Charles Tummonds State Nature Preserve
- Doctor Nathan Hale Riparian Reserve
- Shoemaker State Nature Preserve
- Roadside Wildlife Area
- Stillwater Prairie Rangeline
- Bachelor Preserve
- Spring Brook Sanctuary
- Morgan Swamp Preserve
- Big Creek Spur
- Susan Hambley Nature Center
- Kramer Preserve
- Foundation Lake
- Audubon Wetlands Preserve
- Mercy Community Nature Preserve
- Margaret Peak Nature Preserve
- Lake Erie Bluffs
- Marsha Gunder Schneider Preserve
- Hoover Dam Park
- Cackley Swamp Preserve
- Lobdell Preserve
- Hemlock Ridge
- Vickers Nature Preserve
- WRA Cabins
- New Lyme Wildlife Area
- Rudolph Savannah
- Gump Woods
- Lye Creek Riparain Restoration Project
- Farrington Reserve
- Grant Lake Wildlife Area
- James H. McBride ArboretumBuilt 1984
- Kuehnle Wildlife Area
- Strouds Ridge Reserve Hope Drive Tract
- Edgewood Grove
- Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve
- Lake Alma State Park
- Sheepskin Hollow State Nature Preserve
- Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge - Upper Twin Island
- Nehls Memorial Nature Preserve
- Shale Hollow Park
- Walter A Tucker Nature Preserve
- Paul Murray Wildlife Area
- Blanche Katherine Novak Wildlife Sanctuary and State Nature Preserve
- Mercer Woods Preserve
- Paine Falls Park
- Portage Lakes Wetland State Nature Preserve
- Kiedaisch Point Park
- Marinewood Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Orwell State Wildlife Area
- Fuller Preserve
- Alderfer-Oenslager Wildlife Sanctuary
- Collier Preserve Expansion
- Wellston Reservoir State Wildlife Park
- Donna May Campbell Preserve
- Old Woman Creek Nature Center
- Frank Hosea Woods Park
- Audubon Society
- Yellow Creek Riparian Corridor
- Holzapfel Preserve
- Euclid Creek Reservation
- Penitentiary Glen Reservation
- Walter C. Best Wildlife Preserve
- College Woods
- Anliot-Davidson Woods
- Huffman Prairie State Natural Landmark
- Hogback Ridge Park
- Kaul Wildlife Area
- Mambourg Park
- Fox Preserve
- Black River Reservation
- J. Arthur Herrick Fen Nature Preserve
- North Pond State Nature Preserve
- Montpelier Woods
- Johnson Ridge State Nature Preserve
- Firestone/Yeagley Wildlife Area
- Amberfield Parkland
- Cranberry Run Headwaters
- Canaan Preserve
- Stone Canyon Preserve
- Catalpa Park
- Green Island Wildlife Area
- Petersen's Woods
- Arcola Creek Park
- Denison University Biological Preserve
- Acacia Reservation
- Chagrin River Park
- Katie Wilson Schneider Preserve
- Hawkins Marsh
- Spring Run Conservation Area
- Toussaint Creek Wildlife Area
- Marsh Wetlands State Nature Preserve
- Writsel Preserve
- Tecumseh Point
- Hitchcock Woods
- Blair Landing
- Kroger Hills
- KSU Research Area
- Buck Run Conservation area
- Davis Memorial State Nature Preserve
- Grand River State Wildlife Area
- Gallagher Fen Sate Nature Preserve
- Scenic River Retreat
- Welton's Gorge Preserve
- Pierce Preserve
- Braceville Nature Preserve
- Coppess Nature Sanctuary
- Acadia Cliffs Wildlife Area
- Pipe Creek Wildlife Area
- Southdown Reserve
- Honey Creek Reserve
- Morris Reserve
- Taft Reserve North
- Huntington Woods
- Strongsville Wildlife Area
- Brookville Preserve
- Black Swamp Preserve
- Dillon State Wildlife Area
- Goll Woods Nature Preserve
- Grand River Wildlife Area
- Modroo Preserve
- Lesli Johnson Preserve
- Deems Parkland
- Lakeshore Reservation
- Stratford Ecological Center
- Riverbend Conservation Area
- William J Robertson Nature Preserve
- Wellington Reservation
- Reagan Highway Wetlands
- Endangered Waterfowl Conservation Facility
- Indian Rock Park
- Glenwood Green
- Paul B Sears Woods State Nature Preserve
- Michael Murray Wildlife Area
- Walden Waterfowl Refuge
- Igel Preserve
- Hocking Canal Lock No. 8
- Historic Bear's Mill Preserve
- Prairie Ridge Meadow
- John and Carroll Ullich Meadows
- Honey Point Wildlife Area
- Butterfly Habitat Restoration Project
- Upper French Creek Wetlands
- Speedway Nature Reserve
- Peach Preserve
- Bachelor Preserve - Marcum
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History Preserve
- Owens Fen State Nature Preserve
- Maple Ridge
- Little Portage River Wildlife Area
- Dillon Reservoir Wildlife Area
- Lawrence Conservation Area
- Imago
- Lucia S. Nash Preserve
- Richfield Nature Preserve
- Coldwater Nature Preserve
- Pleasant Hill Lake Park
- Bath Road Heronry
- Bath Nature Preserve
- Ten-Mile Creek Nature Preserve
- Peffer Woods
- Olentangy River State Wildlife Access Area
- Whitesburg Nature Preserve
- Blue Heron Reserve
- Fort Jefferson State Historic Site
- Conant Wildlife Area
- Jones Preserve
- Beaver Township Nature Preserve
- Dr. Elizabeth Yahl Kuffner Nature Preserve
- Forest Lake Wildlife Preserve
- The Rookery
- Becks Preserve
- French Creek Reservation
- Headwaters Park
- Princess Ledges Nature Reserve
- California Woods Nature Preserve
- Parkview Parkland
- Quarry St. Preserve
- American Landfill Certified Wildlife Habitat
- Poston Plant Lands
- Magee Marsh Wildlife Area
- Russ Nature Reserve
- Cossin-Kreisel Preserve
- Holbrook Hollows
- Sawyer Quarry Nature Preserve
- Baker Preserve
- Walnut Woods Metro Park
- Oxbow Lake State Wildlife Area
- Hach-Otis State Nature Preserve
- Haddox Preserve
- William Holmes McGuffey Wildlife Preserve
- Meijer Conservation Easement
- Bracken Woods Brodbeck Preserve
- Black Swamp Nature Center
- Youngstown Eastside Open Space Preserve
- Winterrowd Wetland Preserve
- Carter Preserve
- Utzinger Bog Preserve
- Locust Corner Nature Area
- Ray and Betty Wampler Preserve
- Willow Creek Preserve
- Parker Woods
- Ladd Carr Wildlife Woods
- Clarington 254 Park
- Willoughby Preserve
- Turkey Creek Metropark
- Astorhurst Park
- Beaumont Scout Reservation
- Stange Prairie - Ottawa NWR
- Seymour Nature Preserve
- Strouds Ridge Preserve Bean Tract
- Big Walnut-Edgewater Parkland
- Cooper's Woods Preserve
- Darby Plains/Wet Prairie Restoration Area
- Glacial Grooves Geological Preserve
- Indian Hills Trails
- Scheele Preserve
- Poston Nature Preserve
- Crooked Creek Conservation Club
- Genevieve Jones Preserve
- Hansel Nature Preserve
- Friends of Fort Jefferson
- Holden Arboretum
- Willow Point Wildlife Area
- Bessie Benner Metzenbaum Park
- Anderson Compass Plant Prairie
- Adams Lake Prarie State Nature Preserve
- Pickerington Ponds Metro Park
- Welsh Hill Preserve
- Quinn Preserve
- Baldwin Woods Preserve
- Youngstown Eastside Open Space Preserve
- Taft Reserve South
- Hebble Creek Preserve
- Upper Toussaint Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Boss Unit - Ottawa NWR
- Beaverkettle Farms Conservation Land
- Islander Woods
- West Farmington Hunting Area
- Springville Marsh State Nature Preserve
- East Loveland Nature Preserve
- Kleinmaier State Nature Preserve
- Cline Preserve
- Russell Uplands Preserve
- Burton Wetlands
- Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve
- Auburn Marsh Wildlife Area
- Resilience Woods
- Mill Creek Wildlife Sanctuary
- Utzinger Bog Preserve
- Big Island Wildlife Area
- Shawnee Prairie Preserve
- Hambden Orchard Wildlife Area
- Stream Restoration Area
- Firelands Scout Reservation
- Auglaize Fish & Game Association
- Fox Nature Preserve - Ottawa NWR
- Indian Point Park
- Vinton Furnace Wildlife Area
- Beaver Creek Wildlife Area
- Bettman Preserve
- Swine Creek Reservation
- LaBoiteaux Woods
- Irwin Prairie State Nature Preserve
- Ecology - Ethology Research Station
- Duff Homestead & Bayfront Preserve
- Ritter Wildlife Area
- Highland Bat Sanctuary
- Scarborough Woods
- Port Clinton Lakefront Preserve
- Deep Hollow-Dark Skies Preserve
- East Fork Tailwater State Wildlife Area
- James H. Barrow Biological Field Station
- Pickerel Creek Wildlife Area
- Raemelton Park DevelopersBuilt July 30, 2015
- Grand River Wildlife Area
- Theresa Street Reserve
- Becvar Preserve
- Bird Sanctuary
- Jones Property Conservation Easement
- Grand River Preserve
- Skunk Run Preserve
- Ramser Arboretum
- Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park
- Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve
- Wilma H. Shiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park
- Deer Crossing Reserve
- Collier Preserve
- Worth Family Nature Preserve
- Leesville Wildlife Area
- Caledonia Nature Preserve
- Middle Bass Island East Point Preserve
- Granger Wetlands Park
- Sheldon Marsh Nature Preserve
- Sheldon Marsh
- Gorman Nature Park
- Western Woods
- Riddle State Nature Preserve
- Dodge Woods Preserve
- Buzzardroost Rock Preserve
- Governor Bebb MetroPark
- Girdled Road Reservation
- Routzong Preserve
- Ritchie Preserve
- Restricted Area Eagle Nest
- Gray Birch Bog Preserve
- Whitlam Woods
- Cook Preserve
- Cackley Swamp Preserve
- Franklin Bog Nature Preserve
- Galpin Wildlife Area
- Woodcock Nature Preserve
- Bradner Preserve
- Beavercreek Wildlife Recreational Area
- Morrison Woods Preserve
- Baker Woods
- Clear Fork Gorge State Nature Preserve
- Rudolph Farms
- Morgana Bluffs Nature Preserve
- Drew Woods State Nature Preserve
- Tinkers Creek Nature Preserve
- Dublin Kiwanis Riverway Park
- Kinsey Road Mound
- Woodward Nature Preserve
- Piatt Park Gorge & Cave Area
- Clifton Gorge State Nature Preserve
- Wyandot Wildlife Area
- Lindy Roosenburg Preserve
- Oberlin Preserve
- Glenway Woods
- Shallenberger State Nature Preserve
- Urbana Wildlife Propagation Unit
- Harris Miller Benedict Botanical Preserve
- Baker Swamp State Nature Preserve
- Olentangy Nature Preserve
- Overlook Reserve
- Hell Hollow Wilderness Area
- Missionary Island State Wildlife Area
- Joseph Steinen Wildlife Area
- Anderson Run Riparian Corridor Preservation
- Rocky River Park - Medina County Park District (undeveloped site)
- West Harbor Landing - Ottawa NWR
- Howland Township Preserve
- Bonnoront Preserve
- Raven Rocks
- Beaty Landing
- Newton Nature Lab
- Beaver Creek Preserve
- North Wickliffe Riparian Corridor
- Gunning Preserve
- Caldwell Preserve
- Bauer Preserve
- Swamp Cottonwood State Nature Preserve
- Pete's Pond Preserve
- Turkey Creek Metropark
- Scheeff East Point Preserve