Summit Metro Parks

We’re Your Back yard

Founded in 1921, we manage more than 16,000 acres with 16 parks, two nature centers, one visitors center and over 150 miles of trails.

Munroe Falls Lake at Sunset
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Trail lines
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Programs & Events

Immersive, nature-based fun for all ages!  

Educational
the underside of an osprey with an open wingspan soaring through the blue sky holding a small branch

Osprey, Eagles and Purple Martins, Oh My!

NR/Lot SM2
Recreation
Several people sitting in kayaks on land with paddles in hand.

Intro to Kayaking

Summit Lake Nature Center
Recreation
Several people sitting in kayaks on land with paddles in hand.

Intro to Kayaking

Summit Lake Nature Center
Recreation
Several fishing poles, some with bobbers.

Gone Fishin’

F/Little Turtle Pond
Good For All Ages
A camping tent with rolled-up sleeping pads, a lantern and pie iron in front of it.

Tent Camping Open House

MF/Lake Area
Eco-friendly Home & Gardens
A monarch butterfly sitting on goldenrod flowers.

Looking for Butterflies

FASN/Seneca Deck
Health & Fitness
Two cyclists riding down a paved trail with Summit Lake to their left.

National Ice Cream Day Cycle

SLNC
Eco-friendly Home & Gardens
Liberty Park Nature Center and an outdoor shelter.

Back Yards Gone Wild: Building with Nature

LP/Nature Center
Art
Two cyclists riding down a paved trail with Summit Lake to their left.

Christmas in July at the Summit Lake Farmers Market

TT/Summit Lake Trailhead
Nature Education

Kinderealm: Snakes

SLNC

But wait, There’s More

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What’s New

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Touch-a-Truck

Sit in and explore more than a dozen Summit Metro Parks and local emergency response vehicles!

Join us for

Music by the Lake

Enjoy live music from the Metro Parks Ensemble in the great outdoors.

Explore

Summer Recreation

Paddling, biking, archery, fishing and more… Summit Metro Parks has it all!

What’s New

A young girl sits and smiles behind the wheel of a large tractor.
A man conducts a band outside as people sitting in lawn chairs watch.
Trail lines for the Chuckery Trail
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