EastWood MetroPark
By: Shivani Selvam, Amin Ashraf, and Kamran Sandhu
Theme: Important route components
About: The EastWood MetroPark is a variety of water-based recreational activities as well as land-based recreational and leisurely activities as well, the park offers a visitors many opportunities to actively experience nature without leaving the city. You can explore the park while also participating in its many activities that are available.
Activities: The Park has many features such as North Country Trail and Buckeye Trail, The EastWood Lake, Mad River Water Trail, Mad River Run, Mad River Trail, Creekside Trail, Grassland Prairies, and Prairie Meadow Trail Loop. Along with these features, EastWood Metropark includes many different activities for its visitors to participate in such as fishing, boating, cycling, fitness activities, hiking, outdoor play, canoeing, picnicking, and even winter sports during the winter time. Although we did not get to participate in any winter activities due to the weather being warm, we did get to see many of the other available activities. Here is a link to the MetroPark website where there is the full list of activities.
Directions:
Written Directions to get to Eastwood MetroPark:
1.Head north on Woodman Dr/Wright Bros Pkwy
2.Turn left onto Iron Horse Trail/Ohio Bicycle Rte 9
3.Continue onto Creekside Trail/Ohio Bicycle Rte 2
4.Slight right to stay on Creekside Trail/Ohio Bicycle Rte 2
5.Slight left to stay on Creekside Trail/Ohio Bicycle Rte 2
6.Turn left toward Ohio Bicycle Rte 8
7.Turn right onto Ohio Bicycle Rte 8
8.Take a Slight right
9.Turn right onto Ohio Bicycle Rte 8
10.Turn left onto Harshman Rd
11.Turn left, the destination will be on the right
Most memorable experience:
The most memorable experience was when we went to the lake. We really liked this because we got to skip rocks and find some seashells and look at fishes. We really liked this because it was really fun to skip rocks and it felt as if we were on a vacation and not really at school. We liked finding the seashells because they were really pretty and it was interesting to find them at a lake that’s not so far from our school. Also we got to see people on a boat catching large bass and bluegill.
The actual trip:
We started off by leaving the school around 1 o’clock. The trip to the park was about 4 miles. Here are some pictures of the ride on the bike trail from school to East MetroPark
When we got there, we looked at a map when we first got there to get an understanding of where we could/wanted to go. Here is a picture of the map that we used.
We then explored the park and found some of the different activities that were available around the park, some of the activities that we saw some people doing were fishing, boating, and we were there biking. We also saw benches with roofs where people could go picnicking even in the rain, we even saw a playground where kids could go and play.
We also had to bike along Harshman road to get to the lake at the park, the road was very busy but we didn’t have much difficulty getting across and to the lake. Safety tip: Make sure that when you are biking on the road to stay with your group and not stop. If you get separated from your group a car could pull up between you and your group and it is dangerous to stop in the middle of the road because you could get hit by a car.
Once we visited the lake and stayed there for a while, we made our way back to the school, here is a picture of the park exit.
Sources:
Here is a link to the google maps directions to get to EastWood Metro Park
"Eastwood MetroPark | Five Rivers MetroParks." Five Rivers MetroParks. Tax Payers, n.d. Web. 19 May 2016. <http://www.metroparks.org/places-to-go/eastwood/>.
