I'm contemplated not even posting these pics, but I wanted something to show for all of the walking that I did. I am planning on going back in a week with some kind of game plan. If you live in Cincinnati this place is definitly worth checking out..bring hiking boots instead of gym shoes.

From their website...

http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cityparks/pages/-3442-/

California Woods Nature Preserve comprises one acre of prairie/meadow habitat, and 113 acres of forest community that include one of the finest remaining examples of a climax mixed mesophytic woodland in southwest Ohio. The forest surrounding the climax forest is in various stages of succession.

There are 53 species of trees in the nature preserve including prime examples of beech, red oak, hickory, black walnut, basswood, tulip, pawpaw and yellow buckeye. The preserve also protects over 203 species of herbaceous plants, including trillium flexipes, dragonroot, fawn lily, Canada lily, synadra, wild hyacinth, hepatica, Lily-leaved twayblade, twinleaf, blue cohosh , shooting star, and several Ohio "threatened" species....