Great Parks of Hamilton County honors our millions of US veterans for making sacrifices to protect the freedoms we enjoy, including all the parks and natural areas around this great land. We thank them sincerely for their service to the country.

We’re giving you some fun coloring activities! Here, you’ll find all of our park coloring and activity pages compiled into one coloring book.

Welcome to Parks@Home, our hub for nature activities you can do in your own home!

It is often the little things that we take for granted as we lead our busy lives, those day-to-day activities we can plod through without even thinking about because they seem so mundane. As I sat down to tell this story earlier today, I thought about my typical morning routine. With honking cars, bright headlights […]

One Sunday a month, shutter-happy people gather at a different Great Park to photograph whatever catches their eye. The program is open to everybody and every ability level. Phone, point-and-shoot and digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras are all welcome! Below are some photographs from participants. Enjoy! Who knows, you may even find a new favorite […]

Bass SeriesBass Series Standings – September 7, 2019 Rod-Busting SeriesRod-Busting Series – August 23, 2019

We recently received some kind words and an important reminder we wanted to share: I just wanted to do a shoutout to the Hamilton County Parks and what they provide to the public. We are very lucky to have the lakes and all that they offer. I started visiting the parks twenty-two years ago and […]

Miami Whitewater Forest Lake was the site of the 2019 Great Parks Bass Series #5. Twenty-two teams fished from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. on August 3, and despite a hot sunny day in the 90s, wow, did the fish ever cooperate! Brian Short and Mike Hoefker of Oxford, Ohio won the tournament with a […]