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Blacklick Woods Metro Park

Blacklick Woods Metro Park from directly overhead

Blacklick Woods Metro Park is a nature reserve in Ohio, at a recorded elevation of 265 m. Beavers Hill stands 383 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Brentwood Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Historic National Road - Ohio passes 1.4 miles off. 27 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
265 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.93502, -82.80102

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Nature reserves
Artworks
Historic sites
  • Veterans Memorial: 4.1 mi
  • Carnegie Library: 4.3 mi
  • Canal Winchester Veterans Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • Evergreen Cemetery - Evergreen Monuments: 9.3 mi
  • The Ten Commandments and Beatitudes: 10.2 mi
Gardens: 58
Museums: 53
  • Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum: 1.0 mi
  • Otherworld: 2.0 mi
  • Pickerington-Violet Township Historical Society: 4.3 mi
  • National Barber Museum and Hall of Fame: 6.4 mi
  • Motts Military Museum: 6.9 mi
Attractions: 27
  • Magic Mountain Fun Center East: 1.8 mi
  • Haunted Hootchie: 4.8 mi
  • GLOW PUTT LLC: 7.6 mi
  • Himalayan Mountains: 8.3 mi
  • Pacific Island Water Garden: 8.3 mi
Peaks: 27
Picnic sites: 9
  • Ze Goat Picnic: 8.9 mi
  • Brevoort Park: 12.7 mi
  • Equestrian Day Use: 12.9 mi
  • Sandefur Wetland Pavilion: 13.0 mi
  • Picnic Area: 14.1 mi
Ghost towns: 4
Waterfalls: 3
  • Milliken Falls: 15.9 mi
  • Indian Run Falls: 20.4 mi
  • Indian Run Falls: 20.4 mi
Springs: 2
  • Hocking River ?: 11.1 mi
  • Dublin Spring: 20.0 mi
Beaches: 2
Rest areas: 1
  • Lee M. Rizor Memorial Highway Rest Area: 21.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Blacklick Woods Metro Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Beavers HillNNE 29°383 m11.6 mi
Fairfield County HPSSE 160°380 m19.1 mi
Coffman KnobENE 75°375 m23.5 mi
Bald KnobENE 73°366 m23.7 mi
Jacobs LadderSSE 157°361 m21.3 mi
Bucks KnobENE 72°361 m24.4 mi
Emmanuel KnobSSE 164°354 m24.6 mi
Christmas RocksSSE 154°346 m21.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3619:0819:43
June solstice06:0420:2321:04
September equinox07:1918:5419:30
December solstice07:5016:2717:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303342536372757467554435
Precip in3.02.43.63.94.04.34.73.73.12.92.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — John Glenn Intl AP, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel57 obs
  • common jewelweed46 obs
  • White-tailed Deer45 obs
  • Zabulon Skipper45 obs
  • Downy Woodpecker43 obs
  • Red-tailed Hawk42 obs
  • bloodroot42 obs
  • Barred Owl41 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/465240349

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