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Also, see Portage County North Birding Drive
 * =Birding in Ohio=

Portage County
=Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve= 11027 Hopkins Road Garrettsville, Ohio 44231 Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve webpage

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Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve
Coordinates: 41.2907059, -81.0626221 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve

 * Floodplain forest with diverse wetlands
 * Spectacular spring wildflowers
 * 6-mile trail system
 * Boardwalk wildlife observation tower
 * Small parking lot.

Located in Portage County 2 miles northeast of Garrettsville on Center Road. From Garrettsville go east on OH-82 for two blocks to the flashing light. Turn left (north) at the light onto Center Road. Travel Center Road for 2.3 miles to Hopkins Road and turn right (south).

This preserve encompasses a variety of communities supporting a diversity of flora and fauna typical of northeastern Ohio. Eagle Creek meanders through a wide floodplain dotted with beaver dams, marshlands, small bogs and buttonbush swamps. The north-facing slopes are forested by beeches and maples; white oak woodlands are common on the drier, south-facing slopes. There are more than 100 species of woody plants including uncommon trees, such as cucumber magnolia and yellow birch, as well as 70 species of spring wildflowers. More than 20 species of ferns have been cataloged in the preserve, including ostrich ferns nearly five feet tall. The sphagnum bog shelters such northern rarities as large cranberry, winterberry holly, cotton sedge, and insect-eating plants including round-leaved sundew and northern pitcher plant. From Eagle Creek State Nature Preserve webpage



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