Winter Golf Practice
Don’t let all the snow stop you from practicing your golf game. Even though the courses have been covered with snow for some time now, spring will be here soon. In the meantime, keep your…
Meet Our Mechanics
The Operations Department is the largest group within the park services division. Operations team members operate a wide variety of vehicles and equipment, all while maintaining our parks and golf courses. Servicing and repairing all…
Wisconsinan Glacier
With our current winter weather conditions, it seems only natural to take a look into the Ice Age. It all started a very long time ago, about 1.5 million years ago to be exact. The…
Have You Heard Who, Who, Whooo is Dating??
Really? The great horned owl is feeling amorous in the frosty, freezing winter?? Yes, indeed this large, year-round resident owl is busy hustling and hooting up a storm, carrying out the earliest wild courtship in…
Stepping Up & Helping Out
While everyone at Great Parks works towards the same mission and goals, sometimes it’s easy for each department to get caught up in its own day-to-day work. Park visitors probably never know when staff from…
Frogs in Flight?
One afternoon I booted a partially frozen frog high into the air—it was more like two or three of them, actually. I didn’t mean to. I just happened to be shuffling along my backyard, enjoying…
A Do-able New Year’s Resolution
5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Happy New Year!!! Did you know that people have been celebrating and making New Year’s resolutions for an estimated 4,000 years? Many people make them, saying that they’re going to…
The Millstone Project
Over the years, the Park District has been fortunate to acquire four millstones that date back to the 1800s. Two were acquired years ago, one was received from Historic Southwest Ohio (which operates Heritage Village…