 DESCRIPTION
This trail section is defined by the three parks that it travels through on the way to the OSU campus: Clinton - Como Park, The OSU Wetlands Park and Tuttle Park. They are joined by two trail bridges over the Olentangy river. Each has a somewhat different character. Clinton-Como is a nice-sized neighborhood park, The Wetlands is undeveloped, where you might spot a great blue heron; Tuttle has a heavily forested northern section with a loop trail and huge fields in the south with sports activities going on. Traveling south, you enter Clinton-Como Park from the brief surface street connection, the trail resumes its more park-oriented character. MP 6.0 is just inside the wooden post barrier as you enter the park. Clinton-Como is a long angular river park with a smaller recreational section and a large open field on the south side. There are facilities and a shelter. Once through the park you go through a narrow easement to a trail bridge (Mile Mark 5.5) and over to the Wetlands Park. Here the trail is open to the sky, straight and flat. At the south end, you go over another trail bridge (Mile Post 5.0). under Dodridge St and into the north end of Tuttle Park. The next half mile is heavily shaded with a slight rolling character. The loop trail intersects the main trail at the north and south ends of the woods. The trail ramps up, passes the Tuttle Park Rec Center and eases back down to the athletic fields. Towards the south end of the park, the trail forks--the east side snaking into the bottom of the park to the car lot and the old trail exit to Perry St. The west side of the fork continues the trail along a new and picturesque river edge section that passes under the new Lane Ave bridge and into the OSU campus. (See the next section to continue.)
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