Highbanks+Metro+Park

=Highbanks Metro Park= 9466 Columbus Pike (US-23 North) Lewis Center, Ohio 43035 Highbanks Metro Park webpage Hutchins (Highbanks) State Nature Preserve webpage Highbanks Metro Park trail map
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Tips on birding Highbanks Metro Park
From Ohio Ornithological Society website

Highbanks Metro Park
Coordinates: 40.150723, -83.028564 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Highbanks Metro Park--Coyote Run Trail
Coordinates: 40.1530757, -83.020699 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Highbanks Metro Park--Nature Center
Coordinates: 40.151768, -83.024953 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Highbanks Metro Park--Scenic River Trail
Coordinates: 40.1514236, -83.0437768 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Highbanks Metro Park--Wetland Blind
Coordinates: 40.13854, -83.02427 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Highbanks Metro Park--River Bluff
Coordinates: 40.1360031, -83.036089 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Highbanks Metro Park
Highbanks is appropriately named for its massive 100-foot high shale bluffs that tower over the Olentangy State Scenic River. Tributary streams cutting across the bluff have created a number of deep ravines extending into the eastern part of the park. Ohio and Olentangy shales, often containing outstanding examples of large concretions, are exposed on the bluff face and sides of the ravines. This area has been designated a National Natural Landmark.

Visitors will see outstanding examples of oak-hickory, beech-maple, and floodplain hardwood forests as they hike the park's 11 miles of trails. Highbanks is also rich in Native American history. The park contains two Adena Indian burial mounds and a prehistoric earthwork. From Highbanks Metro Park webpage

Hutchins Preserve is situated on 100-foot high bluffs overlooking the Olentangy State Scenic River in Delaware County. These massive cliffs are comprised mostly of devonian-age Ohio black shale along with some Olentangy shale. An oak-hickory woodlands community dominates the drier ridge tops giving way to beech-maple further away from the bluffs. The preserve features 45 tree, 22 shrub, and 144 herbaceous species. A large semi-circular earthwork attributed to the Late Woodland people (Cole culture) and designated as a National Historic Landmark is located within the preserve.

The preserve is owned and managed by the Coumbus/Franklin County metropolitan parks system. From Hutchins (Highbanks) State Nature Preserve webpage



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