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Date: 09/11/2021 – Distance: 1.4 mi – Elapsed Time: 0.75 hr – Ascent: 94 ft – Descent: 62 ft – Difficulty: Easy

Worth Family Nature Preserve is a small park managed by Darke County Parks. It features a few trails which wind through a prairie, pine grove, tunnels through thickets, and along the floodplain of Greenville Creek where large trees dominate and spring ephemeral wildflowers bloom.

I met up on this Saturday for a tour of 6 Darke County Parks with my friend Brett from Ohio Hiking Trails and Historical Sites. This was our second hike of the day.

Sign at the entrance.
Old barn near the parking lot.
There is no printed map on the trailhead kiosk.
This links you to an online map. They should still post one on the kiosk.
Indiangrass.
The prairie is mostly Indiangrass.
The trail leads through the prairie.
Maybe a bat box?
There are a few other wildflowers here too.
Entering the woods.
Toad.
Greenville Creek.
This looks manmade.
One of the trails abruptly ends at the property line.
I’m not good at identifying ferns but this one was tiny.
Sawtooth Sunflower? There are lots of flowers like these right now and many varieties.
Honeybees like them.

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