Creekside Reserve

Loved this little hiking area. I parked in the parking lot of the Community Park and crossed the street following the paved trail. It loops around past a school. You'll see signage, and after a little bit you'll get to the trails. You can take the paved trail or there are two other trails you can choose, one that goes closer to the water and one that doesn't go as far in. Easy to follow trail signage, quiet. The trails that go closer to the water are not paved, I saw a few runners, it was a peaceful quiet hike. Saw lots of mushrooms. Lots of places to sit and enjoy the ambiance. Clean trails. Lots of beautiful native flowers. I took the paved trail back and it was full of people hiking, biking, running with their dog, walking, chatting on phones. Nice to see such a great place being enjoyed by the community ❤️🚲🌼🐾

So in order to get to the Creekside trail, the more habitat area of wildlife ( in efforts to hike ) what you have to do is take the trail going towards the right heading towards the U-Haul company. You will take a paved road for a little bit of the way to like .2. 3 miles and then you will see an opening to your right depending on what area you’re coming from and that is how you enter into like the hiking portion of the preserve .. I had a little bit of trouble finding it but thanks to Gaia I succeeded . That is the only reason why I am given this information and then on top of that my GPS Waze put me in the middle of the road where there was no entrance to the preserve at all. On the contrary, it was a beautiful smell of honey Huckle the beautiful sound of birds chirping and it seems like it has been maintained pretty well so five out of five recommend to all my hikers in addition to this information. I do think that I should warn you guys that this is a bike trail , the paved road and also the habitat hiking gravel road is also biker territory. I honestly didn’t know this until I heard a biker coming up on me while I was like the habitat wildlife area so be mindful of that but it was a good experience.

Handy little trail system right off the bike path. I used to live nearby and enjoyed the option of riding off the paved path onto gravel or even farther off the beaten path on some dirt trails. There's a surprising amount of wildlife back there and it is beautiful at all times of the year. But don't expect too much. There's highway noise because US 35 is right there. A full loop through the trails at normal walking speed is probably only 30-40 minutes.

This park has a nice trail through a wooded area that parallels the Beaver Creek. It is a mostly underdeveloped park, but that has advantages. It is accessed from the bike path that runs from Xenia to Beavercreek that is also called Creekside. There is also a path that runs under the large power lines that parallel the bike path. This trail is more open and has a wide variety of wildflowers. Both Creekside trails are seldom used so they are very peaceful.

Great trail, very beautiful. However, very short. I went about two or more minutes ago. The trail didn't be very long actually. Great trail for families who have little time for hikes.