A day trip out to Hueston Woods State Park in southwest Ohio. Several photos.

[Tobin S.]

My wife and I decided that we needed a little day trip away from the house for a bit and headed out to Hueston Woods State park which is about a half hour from our house. It didn't cost us a thing except for a little gas. Here are some photos my wife took while we were there.




The path back to a bird blind.



Me on a small bridge over a marsh on the trail back to the bird blind.



The bird blind.



A picnic area on a hiking trail.



A part of the trail we hiked. It was more like a dirt road for a short stretch.



A pretty creek.



Could it be that the road to nowhere...



...leads to me?

[Ohiogal]

1. What a beautiful day you had

to get outside a little bit and enjoy nature!

Thanks for the great photos!

That park reminds me of the place where we used to take our Lab walking every Sunday a few years ago. I can just smell the fresh air.

[Tobin S.]

4. You're welcome!

Oh, yeah. It's nice here today. Sunny and 70, low humidity. I wish they could all be like that.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Nice!

[livetohike]

3. Thanks for sharing your beautiful day! You look great

Tobin I'm in western PA. Looking forward to getting out there for a hike.

[Tobin S.]

5. Thank you!

I go out to western PA for my job 5 days a week. I run across I-70 into Washington then head north on I-79 up to Cranberry.

[livetohike]

7. I live north of I-80. It's been a long, long winter up here.

Nice today, but I have been coughing my brains out for a week and a hike is impossible.

[elleng]

6. Hey Tobin!

Near my college, Miami U, I used to bike there!

Nice day!

[Tobin S.]

8. Hi Ellen!

Yeah, we don't live too far from Miami U. I hear it's a really good school, considered to be a part of a Ivy League of the Midwest. My wife used to go to Oxford quite a bit with friends.

[elleng]

9. Sounds like it's improved since I went there,

I wouldn't have said a 'really good school,' but fortunately SOMETHINGS do improve.

Nice town.

[magicarpet]

10. Beautiful photos - THX for the share.

You got me all excited. I got my hiking boots out from winter storage and dusted them off for an outing.

Nice sunny day you had to get out and relax.

[Tobin S.]

12. Thank you!

We’re going to hit the trail again this weekend weather permitting. This time will be at the Five Rivers Metropark near Germantown, OH. It’s a part of the Montgomery county system of parks near Dayton, OH.

[madinmaryland]

11. Wow!! Thanks for the info. I'm only about a 40 minute drive from there.

I'll have to check it out.

[Tobin S.]

14. You're welcome. n/t

[denbot]

13. Nice.

It seems spring is barely shaking off winter in your neck of the woods.

[Tobin S.]

15. Yeah

In the past week or so the leaves have really started to come out. We had an unusually cold April. It snowed here in mid-April. We’re usually done with that stuff by the end of March.

[sammcgee68]

16. Thanks for the Memories.

Your post sent many long lost memories flooding through my head. I lived off campus while attending Miami University in a small town called Morning Sun Ohio which was right next to Houston Woods State Park. Springtime after a long winter I would hike these trails every morning before my eight AM class . Alone on these trails with spring bursting out like gangbusters was a wonderfull moment. This was the time of Kent State. Students and the Butler County Sheriffs department with their dogs and nightsticks on the Miami University campus. The streets in Oxford were chaotic but the trails in Houston woods were Zen like. These moments in the woods kept me sane. Thanks for the memories.

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[Tobin S.]

19. You're welcome, Sam.

My wife and I are going hiking again today if it doesn't rain on us. We are going to go to Brookville Lake in Brookville, Indiana.

I currently reside in Richmond, Indiana, but I grew up and lived most of my life until about 7 years ago in Dayton, Ohio.

[backtoblue]

17. Looks like a great day Tobin S!!!!

And to find yourself at the end of that road to nowhere...

Thanks for sharing, Happy Trails!!!!

[Tobin S.]

20. It was a great day.

We are going out again today. The plan is for Brookville Lake near Brookville, Indiana.

[Marthe48]

18. My Husband and I went to Heuston Woods years ago

One of his friends told us we could collect fossils there and park policy at the time allowed people to take fossils for their personal use. We didn't find any trilobytes, but we found a bunch of horn corrals, and slabs of stone embedded with shells and other fossils. We still have our samples in the yard. We had a good time and always wanted to go back. Thanks for the trip down memory lane

[Tobin S.]

21. You're welcome, Marthe.

I don't know if they still have that policy. I'll have to check into it the next time we go back. I used to like looking for fossils when I was a kid.

[Marthe48]

22. It was dry the year we went

and the creek bed was exposed. We looked there, didn't do any digging away from the creek. The creek bed was pretty much lined with fossil-bearing limestone.

We had a bag of tools and our little dog with us. We left our tools and took a break walking our dog. We looked back and saw another rockhound looking at our bag. When he started to pick it up, John called out and said, 'Those are ours!' The guy looked abashed and said he thought someone had left them there. We didn't leave them lay after that.