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Events
March 2026
UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENSS
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Click here or here for last-minute announcements regarding scheduled events because of weather or other circumstances.
Click here for a printable Winter 2025 calendar.
- Saturday March 14
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Outdoor Skills - Campfire Techniques
- 9:30 am - 10:30am
- Learn multiple ways to build a campfire depending on how you're going to use it
- Meet at the Caesar Creek Nature Center
Cast Iron Cooking
- 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
- Join us for a 30 minute demonstration on outdoor cooking techniques using cast iron.
- Stay afterwards to cook a meal over the fire with the Nature Center Association of Caesar Creek, Pre-register required on Eventbrite or email caesarnaturecenter@gmail.com
- Meet at the Caesar Creek Nature Center
- Friday March 20
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Spring Equinox Walk and Talk
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10:30 am - Noon
Why is the spring equinox important?
Join us for a 5 mile guided hike. Learn about the seasons, wildlife and park history on the way. Check out your shadow on our interactive sundial as we return.
Meet at the Caesar Creek Nature Center.
Archery
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Join us for archery. Instruction and equipment provided. Must be onsite before 1pm to participate.
- Meet at the Caesar Creek Nature Center.
- Saturday March 21
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Backyard Birds and Beyond
- 10:00 am-11:30 am
- Join us to observe backyard birds and other wildlife
- Learn ways to create healthy and sustainable wildlife areas in your backyard
- Meet at the Caesar Creek Nature Center
Bluebird Box Workshop
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Build and learn how to install and care for your bluebird boxes
- Meet at the Campground Shelter House
Spring Birding Walk and Talk
- 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Learn how to identify spring birds and discover why they are important. Join us for a slow-paced walk along the shoreline as we search for birds. Bring binoculars or borrow one of ours.
- Meet at the Campground Shelter House
April 2026
UPDATES AND ANNOUNCEMENSS
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Click here or here for last-minute announcements regarding scheduled events because of weather or other circumstances.
Click here for a printable Winter 2025 calendar.
- Friday April 3
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Friday Fitness Through Nature Hike
- 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
- Join us for a 3 mile guided hike. Learn about wildlife and park history on the way
- Meet at the Day Lodge
Salamanders, Woodcock and Other Signs of Spring Night Hike
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Join us for a 3 mile guided hike. Learn about wildlife and park history along the way
- Meet at the Day Lodge Wildlife Area
The Fine Print
- All programs are subject to change.
- Notify the naturalist if special accommodations are needed for your participation.
- Children must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
- Call: (513) 897-3055
- Visit: ohiostateparks.org/caesarcreekstatepark
- Find us: https://www.facebook.com/CaesarCreekStatePark
- Recreation programs and activities can be inherently dangerous. Participants accept and acknowledge that any injury or property damage that occurs during a program or activity is not the responsibility of ODNR or its naturalist educators.
More Resources
Organizations
This website, Caesarcreeklake.net is not an official website. It's a hobby project and one of its goals is to to organize and present material that would otherwise be scattered and hard to find. Here is a list of official organizations with links to thier official web pages:
- Ohio Department of Natural Resources
- United States Army Corps of Engineers
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Calendar of Events; calendar hosted by FOCC
- Nature Center Association of Caesar Creek
- Pioneer Village
Signs of Spring 2026
March 12, 2026
Identifying spring ephemerals is easieest when they're in full bloom. Being able to identify them at other points in their life cycle starts to make one a naturalist.
This species is easy. Wehn it emerges, the leaf is tightly wrapped aroundnd the bud and its stalk. Later, the leaf will unfurl, the bud will bloom, and the leaf will exand. Finally, the petals will fall off, leafing a seed pod on a stalk and a single leaf.
There are six visible. Last year there were nine but Spring isn't over.
March 11, 2026
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This (it's a rhizome; it's all one plant) was planted near a garage some time before 2016. There was nothing visible above ground yesteerday. When these emerge, spring might have actually arrived.
