Read and download the complete General Management Plan for the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site here.


Fallen Timbers Bridge Now Open

Metroparks new Fallen Timbers pedestrian/bicycle bridge over US 24 is now open, connecting two units of a national historic site and providing an important link in northwest Ohio ’s regional bikeway system.

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur and Metroparks board chairman Jack Gallon cut the ribbon on the bridge during a dedication ceremony August 19, the eve of the anniversary of the Battle of Fallen Timbers. The 1794 battle led to settlement of the Northwest Territory and statehood for Ohio.

The National Park Service presented Metroparks with a plaque, and a representative of US Sen. Mike DeWine presented a senate proclamation.

Construction on the Metroparks project began a year ago under the supervision of the Ohio Department of Transportation.

The 214-foot-long, 14-foot-wide bridge over Fallen Timbers Lane and the Anthony Wayne Trail ( US 24) connects the Fallen Timbers Memorial, an Ohio Historical Society site on the south side of the highway, and the Fallen Timbers Battlefield, a Metroparks project on Jerome Road north of the highway.

The two sites, along with Fort Miamis Park in Maumee, make up the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic Site. Still in the planning stage, the historic site has been designated by Congress as an Affiliated Unit of the National Park Service and will be managed by Metroparks.

As a link in the pedestrian and bicycle portion of the regional transportation plan, the bridge will connect Side Cut Metropark with the north and south legs of the Wabash Cannonball trail, both of which begin on Jerome Road . The north leg of the 65-mile trail is connected to Oak Openings Preserve Metropark.

The $1.1 million project was primarily funded by a $645,000 federal Transportation Enhancement grant and a $320,000 grant from the Clean Ohio Trail Fund. Metroparks also raised more than $43,000 from a J.M Smucker Foundation grant, special events and individual contributions.


Metroparks To Operate Fort Miamis

November 2006 - Ft. Miamis Park in Maumee will return to Metroparks ownership after 54 years. City council Monday voted to transfer the park for $1 as part of an agreement in which Metroparks will build a sledding hill at the Siegert Lake Area at Side Cut.

Ft. Miamis is one of three sites that together form the Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Ft. Miamis National Historic Site. The other two sites – the battlefield, owned by Metroparks, and the Fallen Timbers Memorial, owned by the Ohio Historical Society – are being connected with a bike/pedestrian bridge over US24.

Sledding on the mounds that once formed the walls of Ft. Miamis, a tradition in Maumee, was in conflict with the proposed use of the historical site. The Fallen Timbers General Management Plan called for the 66-acre park to be a reflective area where visitors would learn about the British fort, which played a role in both the 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers and the War of 1812. Under Metroparks ownership, sledding will be phased out at the site, but a new sledding hill will open this winter at Side Cut.

Board minutes of 1945 list Ft. Miamis as the most recent addition to the park district. In 1951, records show, the land was transferred to the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society after five years of negotiations. The land was later transferred to the city.