Explore Your Parks | Metroparks Toledo

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Metroparks Toledo is a system of parks and trails connecting people with nature in compelling and exciting ways. Wherever you are in Lucas County, you are just minutes away from a Metropark.
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Explore Your Parks
Explore Your Parks

All Metroparks encompass beautiful scenery, open spaces and boast an open invitation to come and explore. Yet, no two Metroparks are alike. Every Metropark is different, and promises singular experiences and one-of-a-kind, natural attributes.
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Outdoor Adventures
Outdoor Adventures

Metroparks provide a myriad of ways for people to connect with the natural world. What’s your pleasure? Biking? Hiking? Canoeing? Camping? Photography? There’s a Metropark for that—and no better place to come outside and play.
Activities
- Archery
- Backpacking
- Bicycling
- Birding
- Camping
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Fishing
- FitParks
- Geocaching
- Hammocking
- Horse Trails
- Ice Skating
- Mountain Biking
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Natural Wonders
Nature For Generations

Metroparks not only conserves the most beautiful natural resources in the region, in many cases Metroparks restores them to their unaltered splendor. These are places that are meant for enjoyment. These are places people want to be.
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Discover Nature

Chances are, you’re only minutes from a Metropark. Consequently, you’re always just minutes from beautiful open spaces, and plenty of things to see and do the year round. Check this page often to discover everything happening at Metroparks.
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Get Involved

Sometimes the best way to enjoy your Metroparks is to take an active role in helping support and sustain Metroparks in the future. What is your favorite way to get involved?
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Articles Categorized in Explore Your Parks

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06/07

Summer Solstice & Juneteenth Celebration

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06/03

10K Steps: Spring in Your Step (June)

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06/03

Librarian Picks Focus on Camping

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05/13

Park People: Mosser Construction

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05/10

Librarian Picks Focus on Spring Birding

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05/05

Learn How to Tango

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05/01

Metroparks Apparel for Sale

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03/22

Park People: Maumee Rotary Services Foundation

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03/17

The Spring Run: Walleye Fishing on the Maumee River

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02/28

Fishy Business along the Towpath and Beyond!

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02/17

A New Spin on “Get Outside Yourself!”

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02/16

Nature a Prescription for Wellbeing

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02/14

Rock it Out along the Towpath!

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02/07

Empty Nests? Look Again!

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02/01

Park People: Dan Plath

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02/01

Wildlife Trail Talk

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01/15

With Love, Naturally

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01/14

In Observance of Martin Luther King Day

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12/22

More Room to Roam Just When We Need it Most

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12/07

Librarian Picks Focus on Winter

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Great American Backyard Campground, June 26

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Park People: Valerie Juhasz