Horse Trail & Oak Openings Hiking Trail via Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) is a 5.6-mile out-and-back in Oak Openings Preserve Metropark near Swissaire Estates, OH. It is mostly level, with 55 ft of elevation gain, and mostly paved. It scores 25/100 on the Ambleway Wildness scale: green fringe.
Elevation
0 mi643 – 686 ft5.8 mi
Getting there
Trailhead: Unnamed 41.55657, -83.87342
Nearest town Swissaire Estates, OH
Directions
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Horse Trail & Oak Openings Hiking Trail via Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork)
5.6 mi · ▲ 55 ft · 1 hr 54 min
Elevation 643–685 ft
Out & Back · Oak Openings Preserve Metropark
Trailhead: 41.55657, -83.87342
Weather Sep 20: sunrise 7:22 AM · sunset 7:38 PM
Toilets at the trailhead · Drinking water at the trailhead · Parking lot at the trailhead
- Start at the trailhead, heading SE.
- 100 ftTurn left onto Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork), heading E.
- 1.7 miTurn right onto Horse Trail, heading SE.
- 50 ftContinue straight onto Oak Openings Hiking Trail, heading SE.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Horse Trail, heading E.
- 0.1 miTurn left, heading S.
- 150 ftBear right onto Oak Openings Hiking Trail, heading E.
- 0.4 miContinue straight onto Horse Trail, heading S.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Oak Openings Hiking Trail, heading S.
- 0.1 miBear left, heading SE.
- 50 ftReach Oak Openings Hiking Trail, then turn around and head back the way you came.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Horse Trail, heading NW.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Oak Openings Hiking Trail, heading N.
- 0.4 miBear left, heading NW.
- 150 ftTurn right onto Horse Trail, heading NW.
- 0.1 miContinue straight onto Oak Openings Hiking Trail, heading W.
- 0.2 miContinue straight onto Horse Trail, heading NW.
- 50 ftTurn left onto Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork), heading NW.
- 1.7 miTurn right, heading W.
- 50 ftArrive back at the trailhead.
Each distance is the walk from the previous step. Tap a step for a map of its junction.
Trail surface
62% paved38% unspecified
Weather
Sunrise 7:22 AMSunset 7:38 PM
Good to know
- Toilets at the trailhead
- Drinking water at the trailhead
- Parking lot at the trailhead
More from this trailhead
- Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) 3.5 mi · ▲ 55 ft
- Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) 3.5 mi · ▲ 55 ft
- Evergreen Trail–Ferns & Lake Trail, 4 sights 6.6 mi · ▲ 53 ft
- Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) 3.8 mi · ▲ 55 ft
- Ferns & Lake Trail & Wabash Cannonball Connector via Wabash Cannonball Trail (North Fork) 4.2 mi · ▲ 53 ft
- Horse Trail 4.6 mi · ▲ 0 ft
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