Find a Nature Preserve

Select a Preserve Acadia Cliffs Adams Lake Prairie Audubon Islands Aurora Sanctuary Baker Woods Bigelow Cemetery Prairie Blackhand Gorge Boord Brown's Lake Bog Burton Wetlands Caesar Creek Gorge Carmean Woods Cedar Bog Chaparral Prairie Clear Creek Clear Fork Gorge Clifton Gorge Collier Compass Plant Prairie Conkle's Hollow Conneaut Swamp Cranberry Bog Crooked Run Culberson Woods Davey Woods Davis Memorial Desonier Drew Woods Dupont Marsh Eagle Creek Erie Sand Barrens Fowler Woods Gahanna Woods Goll Woods Goode Prairie Greenville Falls Gross Woods Hach-Otis Halls Creek Woods Headlands Dunes Herrick Fen Hueston Woods Hutchins (Highbanks) Irwin Prairie Jackson Bog Johnson Ridge Johnson Woods Kendrick Woods Kent (Cooperrider) Bog Kessler Swamp Kiser Lake Wetlands Kitty Todd Knox Woods Kyle Woods Lake Katharine Lakeside Daisy Lawrence Woods Lou Campbell Marsh Wetlands Mentor Marsh Milford Center Prairie Morris Woods North Pond North Shore Alvar Novak Old Woman Creek Olsen (Augusta-Anne) Pickerington Ponds Portage Lakes Wetland Riddle Rockbridge Sears Woods Seymour Woods Shallenberger Sharon Woods Gorge Sheepskin Hollow Sheldon Marsh Shoemaker Siegenthaler-Esker Smith Cemetery Prairie Springville Marsh Stage's Pond Stratford Woods Swamp Cottonwood Thomas (Sharon Woods) Tinker's Creek Triangle Lake Bog Tucker (Blacklick) Tummonds Wahkeena Whipple Zimmerman Prairie

Ohio has 134 state nature preserves. A map of 90 preserves open to the public will help you discover Ohio's special places. An additional 44 state nature preserves are open only through a written permit, so that sensitive habitats can be protected more carefully.  map