Mill Creek Park Youngstown Ohio Hiking Trails Pictures

Mill Creek Park in Youngstown has at least fourteen good hiking trails that will make you think that you were not in Ohio. The topography in Mill Creek Park seems to come from another state out West. Mill Creek park covers 2,530 acres and includes 21 miles of scenic drives and 15 miles of foot trails, and a rare collection of gardens, streams, lakes, woodlands, meadows and wildlife for all to enjoy.

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Mill Creek park was established in 1891 as the principal property of the Youngstown Township Park District, now the Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District. The creation of the Mill Creek park is the result of the foresight and untiring efforts of Volney Rogers. Volney Rogers was inducted into Ohio's Natural Resources Hall of Fame in 2000 for his principal role in establishing Ohio's park districts. The Park District serves the Mahoning County residents, and welcomes visitors from across the nation and around the world. The Park District preserves open spaces within the urbanized Mahoning Valley. The Mill Creek park encompasses approximately 2,600 acres, 20 miles of drives, and 15 miles of foot trails, and a rare collection of gardens, streams, lakes, woodlands, meadows and wildlife for all to enjoy. Visitors will find a wide range of recreational opportunities such as hiking, biking, picnicking, boating, Par-3, or championship golf, tennis, sand volleyball and more. Many of the facilities can be found at the James L. Wick, Jr. Recreation Area. Universally accessible trails, fishing pier, playground and picnic areas are located throughout the Park. Cabins and pavilions for group events are available for rental year-round.

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In Mill Creek Park-Fellows Riverside Gardens - This eleven acre living museum, funded by a very generous bequest of the late Mrs. Elizabeth A. Fellows, began with its first plantings in 1963. The Gardens include labeled displays of roses, tulips, chrysanthemums, herbs, trees, evergreens, dwarf conifers, rhododendrons, annuals, and perennials. Other features in the Gardens include two flagstone terraces, a lovely reflecting fountain pool, a beautiful Victorian styled gazebo, and a climbing plant trellis system. The Kidston Pavilion, overlooking Lake Glacier, is one of the newest addition to the Gardens. This pavilion and the Gazebo are available by permit for weddings. Educational opportunities such as guided school and group tours, horticulture classes for children and adults, specialty plant sales, horticulture flower shows, and outreach programs to local schools and senior centers are all available at Fellows Riverside Gardens.

In Mill Creek Park-Lanterman's Mill, restored through a gift from the Ward and Florence Beecher Foundations, represents one of the many pioneer industries developed along the Youngstown metropark and operates today, as it did in the 1800's, grinding corn, wheat, buckwheat, and oats. The nearby Gorge Trail offers a dramatic peek into the area's geological history. The Ford Nature Education Center is staffed year-round with naturalists ready to enlighten visitors on the natural environment through permanent exhibits, traveling programs and nature hikes. The Pioneer Pavilion, The Old Log Cabin, and the Bears Den Cabin are restored facilities located in this metropark and are available throughout the year for renting. The MetroParks Farm in Canfield gives visitors an insight into our food chain, and Yellow Creek Park in Struthers offers a smaller but no less beautiful version of the Mill Creek Gorge as well as educational and recreational programming. The Vickers Nature Preserve in Ellsworth offers extensive hiking trails through meadow and early-succession forest as well as the Buckeye Horse Park. The Newport Wetlands observation area and the McGuffey Wildlife Preserve also offer additional locations of interest.