Join us in keeping a nature journal throughout 2021. This is your journal, something to help you connect to the natural world around you and make discoveries along the way. Don’t worry, we will give you a new prompt here regularly!

In the midst of the pandemic, people have been looking for ways to get outside and enjoy nature now more than ever. For Katrina Rugless and her family, park visits in 2020 were places of escape and restoration.

Great Parks completed its first Comprehensive Master Plan in 2019, setting the organization’s vision over the next 10 years. As part of the process, Park and Facility Master Plans are being finalized, looking at each of the Great Parks in further detail.

Join us in keeping a nature journal throughout 2021. This is your journal, something to help you connect to the natural world around you and make discoveries along the way. Don’t worry, we will give you a new prompt here regularly!

Join us on our Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. Evergreen trees add color to your landscape, especially in winter with the year-round color. But how can you tell the different tree species apart? Nature Interpreter Lisa shares how you can identify evergreen trees in Ohio in today’s video.

Join us in keeping a nature journal throughout 2021. This is your journal, something to help you connect to the natural world around you and make discoveries along the way. Don’t worry, we will give you a new prompt here regularly!

Join us on our Facebook page every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. How do we keep parks and visitor centers clean? Conservation & Parks Technician Shaun shows us how he keeps Glenwood Gardens clean for our guests!

Join us in keeping a nature journal throughout 2021. This is your journal, something to help you connect to the natural world around you and make discoveries along the way. Don’t worry, we will give you a new prompt here regularly!