Slippery Elm Trail

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Slippery Elm Trail
Black Swamp Preserve Slippery Elm Trailhead.jpg
Rails to Trails
Length13 miles [1] [2] [3]
Location Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio
Established1995 [4]
Trailheads Centro free car parking large.svg Bowling Green, Portage, Rudolph, North Baltimore
Usehiking, bicycling and in-line skating
Grade flat railroad grades
Difficulty MUTCD D9-6.svg Wheelchair accessible [2]
Months12
SightsRudolph Savanna, Cricket Frog Cove, Black Swamp Preserve
Surface Paved [1] [2] [3]
Right of way Baltimore & Ohio [5] [6]
Website Wood County Park District: Slippery Elm Trail

The Slippery Elm Trail is a rail to trail conversion in Wood County, Ohio that runs 13 miles from Bowling Green, through Portage and Rudolph, to North Baltimore, Ohio. [1] [2] [3]

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History

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Excerpt from 1898 Ohio railroad map
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The Bowling Green Railroad Company was founded in 1874. It functioned as a spur line to link Bowling Green to the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway (C.H. & D.) that ran northwest of Bowling Green, through Tontogany, Ohio. In 1887, the CH&D railroad purchased enough stock to control the Bowling Green line. In 1890, the Bowling Green Railroad Company absorbed the portion of railroad that makes today's trail, which was then called the Toledo, Findlay and Springfield Railroad. The line was later purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1917, and operated as B&O until 1978. [5] [6] [8]

The Wood County Parks District opened the rail trail in 1995. [4]

Location

The trail is maintained by the Wood County Parks District, and the routing is per the following table:

CrossingMileage [1] Notes [1] [2] [3] Coordinates [1]
(mi)(km)
Montessori School, Bowling Green, Ohio 00 Centro free car parking large.svg Parking, non-school hours only. Northern terminus 41°22′00″N83°39′25″W / 41.366670°N 83.656851°W / 41.366670; -83.656851 (Slippery Elm Trail, northern terminus, Montessori school)
Black Swamp Preserve0.50.80 Toilets unisex.svg Centro free car parking large.svg Bathrooms and parking off S. Maple St., via Gypsy Lane. Bike repair station. [9] 41°21′38″N83°39′37″W / 41.360554°N 83.660222°W / 41.360554; -83.660222 (Slippery Elm Trail, Black Swamp Preserve)
US 6.svg US 6 1.32.1Underpass 41°20′57″N83°39′36″W / 41.349176°N 83.659976°W / 41.349176; -83.659976 (Slippery Elm Trail, US Route 6 underpass)
Portage, Ohio 2.84.5 Toilets unisex.svg Centro free car parking large.svg Bathrooms and parking. Bike repair station. [9] 41°19′36″N83°39′36″W / 41.326725°N 83.660012°W / 41.326725; -83.660012 (Slippery Elm Trail, Portage, Ohio)
Rudolph, Ohio 4.97.9 Toilets unisex.svg Centro free car parking large.svg Bathrooms and parking. [10] Rudolph Savanna, with sand dunes, and native savanna meadow of tall prairie grasses, under mature trees. [11] [12] 41°17′54″N83°40′11″W / 41.298445°N 83.669709°W / 41.298445; -83.669709 (Slippery Elm Trail, Rudolph, Ohio)
OH-281.svg SR 281 (Defiance Trail)69.7 41°16′59″N83°40′20″W / 41.283172°N 83.672131°W / 41.283172; -83.672131 (Slippery Elm Trail, State Route 281)
Cygnet Road8.914.3 Cygnet, Ohio is 1 mile east. Between Cygnet Rd. and Freyman Rd, path follows winding creek instead of old railroad bed. 41°14′27″N83°40′27″W / 41.240939°N 83.674133°W / 41.240939; -83.674133 (Slippery Elm Trail, Cygnet Road)
Freyman Road9.515.3Cricket Frog Cove, [13] half mile west of trail, bathroom and parking. Toilets unisex.svg Centro free car parking large.svg 41°14′01″N83°40′23″W / 41.233657°N 83.673110°W / 41.233657; -83.673110 (Slippery Elm Trail, Cricket Frog Cove)
North Baltimore, Ohio 12.820.6 Toilets unisex.svg Centro free car parking large.svg Bathroom and parking at southern terminus. [14] 41°11′00″N83°40′30″W / 41.183399°N 83.674929°W / 41.183399; -83.674929 (Slippery Elm Trail, North Baltimore, sorthern terminus)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Slippery Elm Trail, Ohio". Google Maps. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Slippery Elm Trail". Trail Link. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Slippery Elm Trail". Ohio Bikeways. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Wood County Park District: Slippery Elm Trail Archived 2014-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 Camp, Mark (2005). Railroads Depots of Northwest Ohio. Arcadia Publishing. p. 9. ISBN   9780738534015 . Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Tontogany to North Baltimore". AbandonedRails.com. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  7. ↑ Railroad map of Ohio (Map). loc.gov. 1898. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  8. ↑ Ohio Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs (1906). Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads and Telegraphs. L.D. Meyers & bro. p. 64.
  9. 1 2 "[Wood County Park District] Slippery Elm Trail". www.wcparks.org. Retrieved May 30, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Slippery Elm Trail to get stop-off site". Toledo Blade. October 12, 2006. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Slippery Elm Trail offers 13 miles of natural beauty". NBC 24. October 7, 2010. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
  12. ↑ Wood County Park District: Rudolph Savanna
  13. ↑ Wood County Park District: Cricket Frog Cove
  14. ↑ "North Baltimore seeks to balance past with future". Toledo Blade. February 12, 2001. Retrieved April 8, 2016.


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