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Wild Winter Lights Five Best Places to Snowshoe Trail Hiking Winter ® DECEMBER 2020 Wild Winter Lights The magical holiday tradition returns Five Best Places to Snowshoe Experience a new sport in Cleveland Metroparks Trail Hiking Four hikes worth bundling up for Winter RiverFest Enjoy winter fun along the Cuyahoga River Wild Winter Lights at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo ® A LETTER FROM BRIAN ZIMMERMAN Explore Our Winter Outdoor Opportunities Happy December! The Emerald Necklace has shed many of its colors, trees and wildlife lie dormant and the first days of winter are upon us. Don’t let the stark landscape fool you, our parks remain alive throughout the winter season and the barren trees give way to spectacular vistas from park overlooks and surprising glimpses of wildlife like the red fox and snowy owl. This winter season there’s more to explore than ever in Cleveland Metroparks. In the next few pages you’ll learn about where our honey bees go in winter, tips for bird feeding during the cooler months and how we can learn a thing or two about resilience from invasive plant management. New lessons in nature can enhance your awareness and experiences when out in the parks. But if you’re ready for adventure right away, we also have the latest tips for cross-country skiing and CONTENTS snowshoeing and a handy list of the best winter hikes for you and your family to explore this season. 2 Letter from Brian Speaking of hikes, our Outdoor Experience team is so excited to be back out on the trails, 3 Trail Quest connecting with you and your families and sharing nature adventures with our community. There’s a variety of hikes for everyone — whether you’re interested in birding, history or 4 Discovering the Red Fox even longer, more challenging hikes, our team is here to help get you out and active this & American Mink winter. And there are over 300 miles of trails to explore! You can view and register for 5 Naturalist’s Almanac & upcoming programs at clevelandmetroparks.com/OE. Wild Winter Lights In addition to our educational programs, we are so excited to offer ways for the whole 6 American Chestnut & family to get outdoors this winter. Wild Winter Lights has again transformed Cleveland Club Moss Metroparks Zoo into a winter wonderland for the holiday season. And the all-new Winter RiverFest at Rivergate Park offers a new way to enjoy the Cuyahoga River, with a synthetic 7 Conservation & Science ice skating rink, igloo village, holiday lights display and more. Of course there’s no winter 8 Tobogganing & thrill in Cleveland Metroparks quite like the toboggan chutes — which are now open for the Winter RiverFest season. 9 Nature Shops While winter will bring its own set of challenges amid the pandemic, our parks will continue to be here for you. And I hope our December Emerald Necklace encourages you to bundle 10 Five Places to Snowshoe up and join us for your next adventure. See you out there! & Cross-Country Skiing 11 Honey Bees in Winter & Winter Bird Feeding 12 Directory & Map Brian Zimmerman Cleveland Metroparks CEO Outdoor education and recreation programs have returned! Park naturalists are now leading a variety of • Group size per program will be limited to less free outdoor programs including birding, than 10 people following CDC guidelines. history, night hikes as well as family-friendly • Advance registration online is required. No hikes as a way to stay active and explore the in-person or phone registrations at this time. Emerald Necklace. • Facial coverings must be worn by all Outdoor Recreation specialists will also participants six years of age and older. offer weekend “try-it” sessions where guests • Due to high demand, guests are limited to can learn a new outdoor recreation skill. one program per week. Outdoor Recreation events will require a $5 Programs will be available for registration equipment rental fee, such as bicycles or two weeks in advance and all updates will be watersport rentals. available at clevelandmetroparks.com/calendar. 2 Emerald Necklace December 2020 | Vol. 69 #12 FEATURE ARTICLE Trail Quest: Winter Exploration Hinckley Lake in Hinckley Reservation eing tasked with compiling the By now you’ve surely rooted through your summertime favorite offers an equally best winter hikes in Cleveland closets and bins to find cozy layers, and treasured winter odyssey. Pausing to BMetroparks is no small feat. Winter’s traded shorts for fleece and tennies for scan your surroundings may turn up stark and crisp landscape, now quieted boots. Time to lace up, zip up, and slip on the sight of a patrolling American bald and minimalist, offers adventurers a your hat and gloves for winter wanderings. eagle. soul-charging yet tranquil season of Here are four hikes to check off your “to serene connection with the natural Acacia Reservation conquer” list during this wild and beautiful world. All Purpose Trail (1.7 miles) winter in Cleveland Metroparks. Hundreds of miles of trails wind and This 155-acre green space oasis offers weave through thousands upon North Chagrin Reservation a paved loop trail through native thousands of acres of forests and fields A.B. Williams Memorial Woods grassland restoration tracts with young and wetlands and gorges and river Sylvan Loop (0.4 mile) combined with oak stands and clumps of pines. The plains. Overlook Trail (0.4 mile) west branch of Euclid Creek flows through the forested western edge Wander through a dense maze of massive Cleveland Metroparks crocheted terrain of the reservation. The frosted open 300- and 400-year-old beech trees, sugar presents a perfectly sewn masterpiece landscape harbors bountiful seed, nut maples and hemlocks in this National of trail types for all paces and and berry supplies for overwintering Natural Landmark and member of the exploration preferences. From steep, finches, sparrows and resident ref- Old Growth Forest Network. A.B. Williams, rocky and root-woven treks to flat and headed woodpeckers. This reclaimed Cleveland Metroparks first naturalist, steady all purpose trails, a glorious golf course offers hikers flat terrain in a embraced this spectacular beech-maple diversity of hiking opportunities can be brisk open landscape. found in every reservation. forest as he conducted his doctoral studies and established the first Trailside Museum Rocky River Reservation in the 1930s. Roving flocks of chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers may alert West Channel Pond Loop (0.5 mile) can be combined with Wildlife you to resident barred owls stealthily Management Loop (1.5 miles) blending in with tree trunks overhead. (Optional longer treks can be picked up Recently upgraded natural trails, a new from here. Be sure to pop down for a visit boardwalk and a new footbridge add to Squire’s Castle with your camera ready.) to the splendor of West Channel Pond’s family friendly half-mile loop around a Hinckley Reservation buttonbush marsh and riverbed forest. Hinckley Lake Loop Trail (3.5 miles) Winter wildlife flourishes here, with Ninety-acre Hinckley Lake is the backdrop resident active beaver and mink being for this impressive, classic loop trail just two of the “fan favorites.” winding around the lake’s edges through Jen Brumfield, Naturalist beeches, oaks, maples and spruces. This Rocky River Nature Center clevelandmetroparks.com 3 INSIDE OUR PARKS Discovering The Red Fox Photo by Tim Kynak nown for its legendary cleverness and human eye. They have black on their Dens are often on a hillside in a forested dashing good looks, the red fox is one legs and the back of their ears, while a area. There are fewer things in nature Kof Ohio’s most appealing mammals. bright white belly and tail tip provides more endearing than a litter of young fox An unexpected sighting of this canine some flashy contrast. Long legs and “kits” tumbling in play around their den hunting for mice on a cold winter morning thick coats make them seem larger site. These families stay together through is enough to make one’s day. Red foxes may than they are. Red foxes are around the summer as the young develop the hunt at any time of day but are more likely the size of domestic house cats, with skills they need to survive. Trail cameras seen during the day in winter. Free from most weighing around ten to twelve set out by Cleveland Metroparks Natural the bad press that plagues its larger coyote pounds. The true size of a fox is more Resources biologists occasionally capture cousin, red foxes are generally welcomed by apparent in the summer, when their images of these stealthy hunters as they humans as they help control neighborhood shorter, thinner summer coat can go about their daily activities, providing chipmunk and squirrel populations. make them look half their former size. valuable data on where they occur in our parks. Striking Good Looks Raising a Family Jeff Riebe, Naturalist Chestnut-brown to a deep orange-red, a Red foxes breed in late winter, and the North Chagrin Nature Center red fox in its winter coat is striking to the females give birth early in the spring. Catch a Glimpse of the American Mink s winter’s chill settles over amusing to watch in the field. They the December landscape, the have a natural curiosity and are constantly AAmerican mink (Neovison vison) on the move. Their shiny black eyes are remains active among the stream, river, striking, with a gaze that seems to be waters and sparse selection could spell and wetland habitats of Northeast continually strategizing the next move. disaster, but the clever mink fares well. Ohio. Semi-aquatic and very secretive, Nimble on land, mink are also agile These voracious predators often kill more the mink is one of the most fascinating swimmers and divers that can quickly then they can eat and hide the rest away local mammals you may have never cross mixed terrain and be gone in a flash.
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