Smeck Park
Smeck Park is a beautiful and family-friendly park featuring accessible trails suitable for hiking, a large playground, picnic areas, and clean public restrooms. It offers ample parking, is pet-friendly with a water bowl for pets, and includes historical features like a barn and log cabin. The park provides wheelchair accessible entrance and parking, plenty of seating with picnic tables, and various amenities for children and pets, making it a great spot for outdoor activities and family outings.
Reviews
The trails are wonderful, some in the wooded hills are a little challenging. It’s a wonderful surprise as the surrounding area is flat.
Beautiful little hidden gem! Really lovely park with trails, old historical farm implements to view, picnic shelter you can reserve, nice playground equipment and benches and tables, 2 port-a-johns. You can bring your dog on a leash and they have bags to clean up after them.
Such a wonderful park! I take my granddaughters often to play here. They love our days together here. We bring lunch and eat. The bathrooms are clean and a wonderful surprise to have at a park! We’ve taken family pictures by the log cabin and a couple of times. We so very much appreciate all of the work that’s gone into this!!
So many great features about this park! Ample parking, pet friendly (thank you!!!) awesome windmill that pumps water to wash little one’s hands and even a bowl for pets!! A huge playground?! a stunning barn finished on top of old sandstone block foundation characteristic to Fairfield County, a wonderful homestead, log cabin farm house, two shelters, handicap accessible parking and brand new, NICE restrooms that have a seat for babies while mom uses the facilities (I posted pics for clarity) a changing table, a handicapped accessible stall, plus parking for group busses! There are MANY picnic tables scattered throughout the park plus a pond and a stream! The trail is NOT flat so those who struggle with elevations need to know that and bring your walking pole, but if you take the trail to the right, there is a beautiful 70-step stairway!! After you make the loop around at the back of the park you can stay to the left and go back up the stairs or go to the right and hoof it uphill on the ground. You really can’t get lost here. Beyond all of this are some gorgeous pieces of old farm equipment behind the farm house that make stunning backgrounds for photographers!! Thanks to all who poured so much into this park! The sunflowers are blooming their heads off as of mid-August!
The trail is easy enough to finish in around 45 minutes, the playground is large enough to keep a 2 year old entertained for a good while, and its never overly crowded.
Ohio wildlife dept/parks management also put up a ‘tick collection station’! I think thats amazing, but I have yet to see a tick on me or my dog after visiting here!