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Quarry Trails Metro Park, the system's 20th, is set to open in October with a mountain bike trail and lakes open to visitors.

An annual event, WAG! Fest seeks to educate pet owners while providing a fun day for their canine companions.

Weaver also said she planned to make the most of Brood X's re-emergence this summer. "I feel like we should embrace it," she said. Mallory Brooks and her son, Aidan, were also waiting for for the cicada nature walk to begin. When asked if he was excited to learn about and see the cicadas, Aidan had a simple reply: "What's that?" "I just think he's excited to be out of the house," Brooks said with a laugh.  "Clumsy fliers" means cicadas could land on you Moore, who's been working for the Metro Parks since 2014, said the insects are "clumsy fliers." This leads to them being eaten by other othe...

Brood X cicadas begin to show themselves — and their sounds — at Columbus-area Metro Parks Tim Carlin, The Columbus Dispatch The late morning air is humid at Highbanks Metro Park. The shade from the large trees provides a slight reprieve from the heat — but not much. Even before a visitor sees a single cicada, the members of Brood X make their presence in the park known. Their hollow hum reverberates through the trees like a subtle background noise. Their little brown shells line the tree trunks in various clearings and picnic areas, and hundreds of exoskeletons pool ...

When you only mate once a year, let’s just assume that you are pretty singularly focused on getting to where you need to be to get that done. So if you are a salamander that lives in Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park and you emerge from underground on one of the first warm and wet nights of spring and head to the vernal pools to do the deed and lay eggs, the last thing you want is to get hit by a car. But the sad reality for any number of species of amphibians — including toads, frogs and salamanders — is that the long journeys often made en masse to get to breeding grounds is a danger...