Oak+Openings--Horse+Rider+Center

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=Oak Openings= =Horse Rider Center= Jeffers Road Swanton, Ohio 43558 Oak Openings Preserve Metropark webpage Oak Openings Preserve map Oak Openings Trails webpage Oak Openings Preserve recommended birding sites

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Oak Openings--Horse Rider Center
Coordinates: 41.5363527, -83.8544141 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

Tips for birding Oak Openings
From Lake Erie Birding Trail website From Ohio Ornithological society website From Oak Openings Metropark webpage

Tips for birding the Horse Rider Center
The trail south of the parking lot is a good spot for Blue-winged and Prairie Warblers, Yellow-breasted Chat, and Eastern Towhee. Blue Grosbeak, Lark Sparrow, and Orchard Oriole can be found in the field across Jeffers Road. From James Muller

About Horse Rider Center
The Horse Rider Center is located on Jeffers Road with ample parking for trailers, restrooms, water, hitching posts and a picnic shelter with grills. Another rest area is located at Evergreen Lake, where restrooms and water are available, as well as access for horses to drink from the lake. From Oak Openings Preserve Metropark Horse Trail webpage

About Oak Openings
Located between Whitehouse and Swanton, Oak Openings Preserve takes its name from the surrounding region, which is 23 times larger than the park itself. That’s something to consider when you realize that Oak Openings Preserve is over 4,000 acres.

Pioneers trudging through a dense swamp called this area “Oak Openings.” Most of the park is an oak savanna ecosystem, characterized by alternating wetlands and vegetated dunes. The Nature Conservancy once named the sandy region one of the 200 “Last Great Places on Earth.”

Prickly-pear cactus, wild lupine and sand cherry bloom atop dry, hot sand dunes just yards away from orchids growing in low, wet swales. There are more than 50 miles of trails in Oak Openings Preserve. Stands of isolated pine and spruce planted by the WPA during the Great Depression are still visible.

Oak Openings is a birder's paradise. It is the nesting place of bluebirds, indigo buntings, whippoorwills, Lark sparrows, and many other species, as well as an excellent location to see migrating songbirds in the spring. From Oak Openings Preserve Metropark webpage

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