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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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.[1]

Founded during the Great Depression and initially built using labor from federal New Deal programs,[2][3] the present park district includes Script error: No such module "convert". across 19 metroparks and nearly Script error: No such module "convert". of trails throughout the Toledo area.[1]

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.[4] Pearson Metropark contains one of the last remaining stands of the Great Black Swamp.[5]

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.[6][7] 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.[8]

Governance

Metroparks Toledo is governed by a five-member volunteer board of commissioners appointed by the Lucas County probate court judge.[9] The park district administrative offices are located at Wildwood Preserve Metropark.[10]

The system is funded by three tax levies, the state local government fund, grants and donations.[11] In 2022, the district employed 164 full-time and part-time employees.[12]

Metroparks

The district comprises 19 metroparks.[11] Two additional properties, Fort Miamis in Maumee and the Brookwood Area in Toledo, are part of the district, but are not defined as metroparks.[11]

Metropark Acreage (Hectares)[11] Location[11] Year Est.[3][13][14] Park Map
Bend View Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". combined Waterville 1935 map
Farnsworth Metropark Waterville 1937
Providence Metropark Providence Township 1930
Blue Creek Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Whitehouse and Waterville Township 2000 map
Cannonball Prairie Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Monclova Township 2020 map
Fallen Timbers Battlefield Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Maumee and Monclova Township 2000 (land purchased); 2015 (battlefield opened)[15] map
Glass City Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Toledo 2020 map
Howard Marsh Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Jerusalem Township 2018 map
Manhattan Marsh Preserve Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Toledo 2020 map
Middlegrounds Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Toledo 2016 map
Oak Openings Preserve Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Swanton Township 1931 map
Pearson Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Oregon 1934 map
Secor Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Richfield Township and Sylvania Township 1949 map
Side Cut Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Maumee 1930 map
Swan Creek Preserve Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Toledo 1963 map
Toledo Botanical Garden Script error: No such module "convert". Toledo 1964 map
Westwinds Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Springfield Township 2015 map
Wildwood Preserve Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Sylvania Township 1975 map
Wiregrass Lake Metropark Script error: No such module "convert". Spencer Township 2015 map

Land holdings

Metroparks Toledo owns Script error: No such module "convert". of farmland in Toledo near Inverness Club for future development as a metropark.[11] Metroparks officials said the future park will be the "typical Metroparks experience" with meadows and a sledding hill.[16]

The district additionally owns approximately Script error: No such module "convert"., called the Oak Openings Corridor, in western Lucas County and Swan Creek Township, Fulton County.[11]

Four Maumee River islands (Marengo, Audubon, Blue Grass and Granger) totaling Script error: No such module "convert". are owned by Metroparks Toledo. Granger Island features a private cabin available for rent.[17]

Regional trails

Metroparks Toledo manages all or portions of several paved, regional rail trails.

Trail Length (one-way) Location Former railroad Notes
University/Parks Trail Script error: No such module "convert".[18] University of Toledo to Sylvania Township Toledo, Angola and Western Railroad[19] Owned by Lucas County and maintained by Metroparks, University of Toledo and City of Toledo.[18]
Wabash Cannonball Trail - North Fork Script error: No such module "convert".; about Script error: No such module "convert". in Lucas County[20] Maumee to Montpelier Wabash Railroad[21] Owned and managed in Lucas County by Metroparks.[22]
Wabash Cannonball Trail - South Fork Script error: No such module "convert".; about Script error: No such module "convert".[20] in Lucas County Maumee to Liberty Center
Chessie Circle Trail Script error: No such module "convert". total; Script error: No such module "convert". owned by Metroparks in South Toledo[23] Perrysburg to Bowman Park, Toledo. Toledo Terminal Railroad[24]

References

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