Mount Airy Forest (Cincinnati, Ohio)

USA / Ohio / Cheviot / Cincinnati, Ohio
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Accessible from Mt. Airy and Westwood, Mt. Airy Forest's 1,459 acres includes miles of hiking trails and bridle trails (located off Diehl Road) for horseback riders. Mt. Airy has Ohio's only wheelchair accessible public treehouse, an enclosed dog park, and disc golf.

Mt. Airy Forest had its origins in 1911 when the Cincinnati Park Board purchased 168 acres of land lying west of Colerain Avenue near the top of the Colerain hill, thus starting the first municipal reforestation project in the United States. Planting and rehabilitation of the farmland purchased in 1911 began almost immediately. During the next 10 years, over 1,000 acres were acquired for reforestation and conservation purposes and, in later years, additional land acquisition increased the total area to its present 1,469.913 acres. What was once scarred, eroded, and nearly treeless ridges and slopes has become today's lush forest which includes 700 acres reforested in hardwoods; 200 acres reforested in evergreens; 269 acres in native woodland; 170 acres of open meadows and 120 acres of arboretum development

www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cityparks/pages/-4570-/
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Coordinates:   39°10'4"N   84°34'42"W

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