Sycamore Park — Attraction in Batavia Township

Please Read Fully - The trails here are great near the main area of the park. The main part of the park is amazing. The orange and yellow are very dangerous. The orange trail starts great, but gets slowly worse. The orange trail is only maintained in lightly in sections. The yellow trail is like going through a washed out road with trees fallen and deep holes. The ground was not really great. They clearly never created water run off’s every so often. The trail gets very narrow in spots. The markers for the trails are very far apart. There is a series of grassy trail on the far western side on the orange trail that is not on the map and can make you lost. There are a ton of downed trees. The height clearance on the trail is a serious problem in sections. We take our toddler in a backpack (Osprey) and we had a ton of issues. The trails here are dangerous. I’ve attached pics. The ones with the trees are in a really good slope. It’s crazy they spent so much money here and the trails are only maintained near the main part of the park. If you get hurt and need rescue, you’ll have to wait a good while considering the conditions and lack of marking the trails. My family hike all they time and these trails are by far the worst we have come across....

This spot is so nice. Right up the road from work with very easy access to the EFLMR (for those non-anglers, East Fork of the Little Miami River). Shady walkways and nice, new facilities. Almost certainly this is a heavily pressured fishing spot. But moving water sure has a habit of resetting shy fish. Even with it being a walk up and fish kind of place, I've been regularly catching fun like smallies on multiple techniques. This is a very fly angling friendly spot. I've yet to wade it, but it looks real wadable and it seems super fishy. I've seen some larger fishes rolling in the rocks. Drum maybe. Or big Horseheads or buffalo or something. And there just have to be larger smallmouth around. I've not dedicated anything over a lunch break to really working this place over with anything other than a fly rod and the UL bait pole I had in the car, but I have to think it will yield quality fish with some good time spent poking around the riffles and run complexes. And other than fishing the shelter houses are brand new, the trails are very pretty and easy going, and it's a nice place to unplug. 5...

First time going to Sycamore park and I was a little disappointed because I searched Google for a nice playground for younger children. The park has no baby swings on which looks to be the new playground by the restrooms so that was disappointing, the restrooms were very clean especially with all the rain we have had lately, the trails are a nice perk but the weeds really need to be cut down and also the bridge that is available which I’m pretty sure most people use it to that pictures was not in the best of shape but nice to just look over it and see the water, if you are looking for a small playground but love nature this is the park for you. Last but not least I did not like the fact there was 3 cars in the parking like smoking weed and yes I understand it’s a public place but also the kids just don’t need to...