About Wolf Run Regional Park

Wolf Run Regional Park consists of over 288 acres of rolling topography and contiguous open space featuring five miles of nature trails, wetlands, a pond and natural habitats.

A two acre "bark park," a fenced area for dogs to run off leash, will be built in or spring 2008. Check back for more details.

Located one mile east of Mount Vernon on Yauger Road, Wolf Run serves as a convenient place to relax and take in the beauty the Kokosing River valley. Of note is the 30 acre Knox Woods State Nature Preserve, contained within the park’s boundary.

The state endangered yellow bellied sapsucker, a small woodpecker, utilizes wooded habitat in the park for foraging and shelter. Granite boulders carried by Ohio’s last ice age 100,000 years ago dot the landscape. Small streams that comprise the headwaters of Wolf Run, which flows to the Kokosing River, grace the landscape with soothing sounds of cascading water.

Recent (May) bird sightings include: rose-breasted grosbeaks, warblers (blackburnian, yellow, blue-winged and ovenbird), baltimore orioles, bluebirds, tree swallows, great creasted flycatchers, brown thrashers and gray catbirds.

Come visit Wolf Run Regional Park to hike, fish and observe nature in action. Download the Wolf Run Regional Park brochure (8.5x11).