Oak+Openings+Preserve+Lodge+Area

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Lucas County
=Oak Openings= =Lodge Area= 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--Lodge Area
Coordinates: 41.5438123, -83.840071 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Oak Openings Lodge Area
This is one of the recommended birding sites by the Metropark Watch for migrating Warblers, Pileated Woodpecker, Broad-winged Hawk, and Red-Shouldered Hawk in this area. From Oak Openings Preserve recommended birding sites

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

Bike Trail near Lodge Area Parking Photo by Ken Ostermiller

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