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Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park (Bison and Nature Center)

When
Visit on your schedulePark: October 1–March 31, 6:30am–8pm. Nature Center: October–March 9am–6pm.
Where
Battelle Darby Creek Metro Park – Nature Center1415 Darby Creek Drive, Galloway, OH 43119Open in Google Maps ↗
Ages
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Cost
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Organizer
Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks

Central Ohio's largest Metro Park: 7,358 acres of forest, prairie and wetland along 13 miles of Big and Little Darby creeks. Bison have been reintroduced and roam two enclosed pastures; the flat, gravel Darby Creek Greenway Trail (5 miles, ADA) passes between the two bison pastures. The Nature Center offers exhibits; there is also a sledding area and a skating pond in winter (weather dependent).

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Official sources checked2026-10-14

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Admission price not printed on the park page. Nature Center phone 614-878-7106. Skating pond (3711 Gardner Road) and sledding area (8465 Alkire Road) are weather dependent.

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