Outdoors

Columbus parks and waterfalls

Waterfalls and park walks, with directions, distances, and accessibility details.

Scioto Audubon and downtown, 2017 · Sixflashphoto · CC BY-SA 4.0

Before you go

Step-free destination: Blacklick Woods’ elevator reaches the main 40-foot Canopy Walk loop.
Shortest measured loop: Inniswood’s paved Sisters’ Garden Loop is 0.25 miles.
Waterfall entrance: Millikin Falls uses 2158 Old Dublin Road, not Quarry Trails’ main entrance.

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Trail and access information comes from Columbus Recreation and Parks, the City of Dublin, and Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks. Check the park’s website for closures before you go.