In the southern area of the preserve you can find an assortment of white and pin oak, white ash with specimens of red maple, red elm, shagbark and bitternut hickory, hophornbeam, American hornbeam and dogwood.

There are also wetlands and seasonable ponds in the southern area of the nature preserve where salamanders, chorus frogs, and wood ducks among other aquatic life and amphibians can be found.

Blacklick Creek flows south along the eastern boundary of the park and is accessible by several trails that travel through a variety of fields, meadows, and forests.

[6] Featuring graded roads and picnic facilities that could accommodate 400, it became a role model for the rest of the Metro Park system.

[8] The earthworks are believed to be made by Late Woodland pre-Columbian peoples who lived in Ohio between AD600 and AD1200.