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Spring Lake Woods and Bog

Spring Lake Woods and Bog has long been recognized as significant to preservationists due to its sphagnum bog, orchids, pitcher plants and plant life distinctive to northern muckland woods. The preserve protects the shoreline of Lake Everett, Allen County’s only natural lake. It is also home to the rare four-toed salamander and features distinctive plant ...

  • 02/06/2017
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Vandolah Nature Preserve

Although the hum of Interstate 69 is ever-present at this preserve, the woods and wetlands here serve as reminders of how this area looked before the highway and subsequent development transformed the region. James and Rebecca Vandolah moved to the area in 1837, raising a large family on the homestead. The property remained in the ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Mengerson Nature Reserve

Tucked between a residential area and a bustling shopping center, this urban preserve was originally part of the Carl Mengerson family farm. The wooded plot was gifted to ACRES in 1989. At this preserve, visitors will see different stages of forest succession, from an open meadow with stands of hawthorn and gray dogwood, to a ...

  • 03/25/2016
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McNabb-Walter Nature Preserve

This preserve protects a picturesque high south bank of the St. Joseph River, the ravines of Davis Fisher Creek and an old-growth maple woods with sugar maple, tulip, red and white oak, beech, ash and sycamore. Spring brings a carpet of wildflowers beneath the trees: spring beauty, large-flowered trillium, cut-leaved toothwort and many more. Alwilda ...

  • 03/25/2016
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Maumee River Overlook

The Maumee River Overlook is a high forested embankment overlooking the Maumee River. A water-powered sawmill was once located nearby on an outcrop of rocks in the river. Lumber from the mill was used in the Wabash & Erie Canal, which ran along the south border of the preserve.

  • 03/25/2016
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Fox Fire Woods

Fox Fire Woods is high, well-drained land producing a woodland where the dominant trees are oak and hickory. Along the west side are wild plum and hawthorn trees. The Fox Fire name is from a fungus that grows on decaying vegetation on the woodland floor and glows eerily in the dark.

  • 03/18/2016
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Bicentennial Woods

This is hill country, carved by glaciers and covered with towering oaks, hickories and sycamores, some more than 200 years old. This area was shaped by water gushing from a rapidly melting glacier more than 10,000 years ago. The meltwater dumped its sediment load at Bicentennial Woods, creating the preserve’s sandy hills. This nature preserve ...

  • 01/28/2016
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Blue Cast Springs

Located along the banks of the Maumee River, Blue Cast Springs is in an area with a rich history of Native American settlement. Several ravines running through the upland forest feed into the river. Bluffs 30 feet high offer vistas of the river and one of its islands. Large trees along the riverbank are home ...

  • 01/28/2016
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Tom and Jane Dustin, Robert C. and Rosella C. Johnson and Whitehurst Nature Preserves

This trail takes visitors through three nature preserves in the Cedar Creek Corridor— the largest forested corridor remaining in Allen County. Tom and Jane Dustin, Robert C. and Rosella C. Johnson, and Whitehurst nature preserves provide critical habitat for wildlife, including river otters and bald eagles. Starting at the Tom & Jane Dustin Preserve parking ...

  • 01/26/2016
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Fogwell Forest

Located between a residential area and Airport Expressway, Fogwell Forest protects prairie and woodland habitats. The trail winds through tall grass before visitors enter the mature forest featuring giant oak and beech trees. In the shade beneath these giants are flowering dogwood and pawpaw and an impressive display of spring wildflowers. The preserve is the ...

  • 01/25/2016
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