Taylorsville MetroPark — Attraction in Vandalia

One Scenic Escape! Located near Vandalia/Dayton, this large park is divided into North, South, East, and West sections, each offering something unique:

🧭 North Park – Historic Tadmor village ruins, canal remnants, and peaceful trails. 🌲 East Park – Rugged forest trails, river overlooks, rock outcrops, and a beautiful old CCC stone shelter. 🌅 South Park – Access to the Taylorsville Dam, Great Miami River Trail, and fishing near the river. 🛷 West Park – Picnic areas, sledding hill (winter), restrooms, and access to loop trails.

🚴‍♂️ The park is great for hiking, biking, fishing, and picnics. Trails are well-marked, and the views along the river are very relaxing. 📸 Highly recommend exploring all four sections if you have time – feels like visiting four...

These trails take you through beautiful scenery - creeks, ravines, rock formations and river views. The trails are challenging - taking you up and down hills and winding around quite a bit. There are very few stretches that are flat or straight; this is what makes it one of our most favorite hikes. Today we hiked the Yellow Trail to the Dam Overlook Trail, which takes you to the parking lot beside the dam, and then we traveled back the Dam Overlook Trail and picked up the Yellow Trail back to the south entrance where we had parked. We guessed that was about 2.2 miles. The river views are beautiful and with it being relatively warm today (around 40 degrees), the river was running pretty well, so you could hear it when you were still. ...

Beautiful, serene and peaceful no matter the time of year. They do a really nice job keeping the parking lot and walks plowed in the winter and its always pristine year round. It's a great place for camping, fishing, hiking, geocaching, sledding & biking. There are also historic ruins to check out! The sledding hill at the Taylorsville West Park, on South Brown School Road is a blast and an easy obstacle-free hill for the little kids or rather us parents who have to drag the sleds back to the top! It's a fun, long-distance hill with just about a 30 degree slope with a 400 to 500 foot run. Highly...