Strouds Ridge Preserve

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Turtlehead Cave, Strouds Run State Park

The Strouds Ridge Preserve is a project of Athens, Ohio, to create a greenbelt buffer and trail system on the outskirts of the city. This effort began in 2002, and has so far involved five parcels of land, for a total of 333 acres (1.35 km²), in three discontinuous tracts. All these properties, which include the pre-existing 22-acre (89,000 m²) Sells park, are contiguous with Strouds Run State Park. One of these three acquisitions was subsequently dedicated as the Dale and Jackie Riddle State Nature Preserve, and is otherwise known as Hawk Woods, an 85-acre (340,000 m²) old-growth forest. One of the tracts, the Della Drive Tract, was acquired by Athens County, not the city. Also nearby are the 75-acre (300,000 m²)-acre Blair Preserve, the 49-acre (200,000 m²)-acre Tucker Run Preserve, the 283-acre (1,150,000 m²)-acre Mary Beth Zak Lohse Preserve, the 441-acre (1,780,000 m²)-acre Canaan Preserve and the 269-acre (1,090,000 m²)-acre Baker Preserve of the Athens Conservancy.

Preserve Lands around Strouds Run State Park

The trail system is known as the Athens Trail system, and connects with the trails at the state park. The trail system centers around the Athens Trail, currently 3.2 miles (5.1 km) but slated to be a full-loop trail around the City of Athens, and the Rockhouse Trail, a 2.7-mile (4.3 km) scenic trail.

Protected areas of Ohio

Federal

National parks	Cuyahoga Valley
National historical parks and sites	Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP First Ladies NHS Hopewell Culture NHP James A. Garfield NHS William Howard Taft NHS
National Monuments	Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers
National memorials	David Berger Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
National trails	North Country Trail
National forests	Wayne
National Wild and Scenic Rivers	Big Darby Creek Little Beaver Creek Little Darby Creek Little Miami River
National wildlife refuges	Cedar Point Ottawa West Sister Island
National estuarine research reserve	Old Woman Creek
National Natural Landmarks	Brown's Lake Bog Cedar Bog Dysart Woods Fort Hill State Memorial Glen Helen Nature Preserve Mantua Swamp Tinkers Creek Gorge

State

State parks	Adams Lake Alum Creek A. W. Marion Barkcamp Beaver Creek Blue Rock Buck Creek Buckeye Lake Burr Oak Caesar Creek Catawba Island Cowan Lake Delaware East Fork East Harbor Forked Run Geneva Grand Lake St. Marys Harrison Lake Headlands Beach Hocking Hills Hueston Woods Independence Dam Jackson Lake John Bryan Kelleys Island Kiser Lake Lake Hope Lake Logan Lake Loramie Lake White Little Miami Madison Lake Malabar Farm Marblehead Lighthouse Mary Jane Thurston Middle Bass Island Maumee Bay Mohican Mt. Gilead Nelson Kennedy Ledges Paint Creek Pike Lake Portage Lakes Punderson Pymatuning Quail Hollow Rocky Fork Salt Fork Shawnee South Bass Island Stonelick Strouds Run Tar Hollow Tinkers Creek Van Buren West Branch Wolf Run
State forests	Beaver Creek Blue Rock Brush Creek Dean Fernwood Gifford Harrison Hocking Maumee Mohican-Memorial Perry Pike Richland Furnace Scioto Trail Shade River Shawnee Sunfish Creek Tar Hollow Yellow Creek Zaleski
State nature preserves	Acadia Cliffs Adams Lake Prairie Blackhand Gorge Brown's Lake Bog Cedar Bog Chaparral Prairie Clifton Gorge Conkle's Hollow Copperrider-Kent Bog Culberson Woods Davey Woods Marie J. Desonier Goll Woods Jackson Bog Kiser Lake Wetlands Lake Katharine Mantua Bog Marsh Wetlands Rockbridge Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker Stage's Pond Triangle Lake Bog
State scenic rivers	Big Darby Creek Chagrin River Conneaut Creek Cuyahoga River Grand River Greenville Creek Kokosing River Little Beaver Creek Little Darby Creek Little Miami River Maumee River Mohican River Olentangy River Sandusky River Stillwater River

Regional

Metro Parks	Cleveland Metroparks Columbus Metro Parks Erie MetroParks Five Rivers MetroParks Geauga Park District Hamilton County Park District Lorain County Metro Parks Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Metroparks Toledo Mill Creek MetroParks

Ohio Department of Natural Resources (web)

Coordinates: 39°20′42″N 82°04′00″W / 39.345°N 82.066667°W / 39.345; -82.066667

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