Clockwise from top: Wildwood Preserve Metropark's Manor House, the Toledo Botanical Garden, a canal boat and mule team at Providence Metropark, canal locks at Side Cut Metropark, wildlife in Pearson Metropark.
Type
Public park district
Motto
Get Outside Yourself[1]
Location
Lucas County, Ohio, United States
Area
12,700 acres (5,100 ha)[2]
Created
1928[3]
Operated by
Board of Park Commissioners of the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area
Visitors
6 million (2021)[2]
Open
Year-round, 7 a.m. until dark daily[4]
Budget
$20.4 million (2022)[5]
Website
metroparkstoledo.com
Metroparks Toledo, officially the Metropolitan Park District of the Toledo Area, is a public park district consisting of parks, nature preserves, a botanical garden, trail network and historic battlefield in Lucas County, Ohio.[6]
Founded during the Great Depression and initially built using labor from federal New Deal programs,[7][8] the present park district includes 12,700 acres (5,100 ha) across 19 metroparks and nearly 200 miles (320 km) of trails throughout the Toledo area.[6]
The largest park, Oak Openings Preserve Metropark, is a centerpiece of the Oak Openings Region and features ecologically significant oak savanna landscapes and globally rare plant communities.[9] Pearson Metropark contains one of the last remaining stands of the Great Black Swamp.[10]
The district includes historically and culturally significant sites, including the Fallen Timbers Battlefield, surviving Miami and Erie Canal infrastructure at Side Cut and Providence Metroparks, and a variety of shelters and buildings built by the federal Works Progress Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.[11][12] Wildwood Preserve Metropark features one of the last remaining public, free-admission gardens designed by Ellen Biddle Shipman at the former manor house estate of Champion spark plug magnate Robert Stranahan.[13]
^Cite error: The named reference 2015 Annual Report was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ab"2021 Roots and Branches" (PDF). Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
^"2018 Annual Report". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
^"Rules and Regulations". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
^"2022 Budget and Annual Planning". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
^ ab"Explore Your Metroparks". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
^"The Men Who Built The Metroparks". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
^"A Rich History". Metroparks Toledo. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
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