Once a month, Dispatch photographers will follow a different hiking path in the Greater Columbus area and share their photos with you on our Story in Photos page. This week we showcase the work of Kyle
Robertson as he hikes the Red Oak Trail at Glacier
Ridge Metro Park in Plain City. It’s an easy, 0.9-mile, kid-friendly hike on a one-way trail that passes through an old forest, a butterfly field and back through a forest. Once you finish the trail, there is a playground for kids and an enclosed dog park nearby.
The Glacier Ridge disc golf course plays through the Red Oak Trail, and the Marsh Hawk Trail is close by.
KYLE ROBERTSON/COLUMBUS DISPATCH
The Red Oak Trail at Glacier Ridge Metro Park leads hikers through a shady grove of trees.
A monarch butterfly inhabits a butterfly field along the trail.
A meadow awaits hikers as they emerge from the woods along the Red Oak Trail.
A sign at Glacier Ridge informs walkers of restrictions along the Red Oak Trail.
Sunlight streams through the trees on the park trail near Plain City.