1. White River State Park
Family activity · Indianapolis · 1 mi (est.)
A downtown campus of gardens, canal walk and museums along the White River.
7am to 11pm · Free
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2. Holliday Park
City park · Indianapolis · 6 mi (est.)
Ninety-four acres of old-growth ravine forest along the White River with a busy nature center.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
3. Eagle Creek Park
City park · Indianapolis · 9 mi (est.)
One of the largest city parks in the country: 1,400 acres of woods around a 1,300-acre reservoir.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · $5 per vehicle for non-residents
4. Fort Harrison State Park
State park · Indianapolis · 10 mi (est.)
A former army post inside Indianapolis, now paved trails, tulip-poplar woods and a creek corridor.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
5. Southeastway Park
City park · Indianapolis · 13 mi (est.)
Rolling meadows, restored prairie and hardwood ridges on the city’s quiet southeast edge.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
6. Ritchey Woods Nature Preserve
Nature preserve · Fishers · 16 mi (est.)
A 127-acre state-dedicated preserve of beech-maple woods and wet flatwoods inside the suburbs.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
7. Cool Creek Park
City park · Westfield · 17 mi (est.)
A creek-side county park with prairie plantings, boardwalks and a hands-on nature center.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
8. Strawtown Koteewi Park
City park · Noblesville · 25 mi (est.)
Eight hundred acres of White River bottomland, prairie restoration and archaeology along the bluff.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free entry, fees for activities
9. Mounds State Park
State park · Anderson · 39 mi (est.)
Ten Adena-Hopewell ceremonial earthworks above the White River, ringed by bluff forest.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
10. Brown County State Park
State park · Nashville · 42 mi (est.)
Indiana's largest state park — ridge-top roads, deep hollows and hardwood forest.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
11. Lieber State Recreation Area
State park · Cloverdale · 43 mi (est.)
Cagles Mill Lake, Indiana's first flood-control reservoir, with woodland walks to Cataract Falls.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
12. Griffy Lake Nature Preserve
Nature preserve · Bloomington · 44 mi (est.)
A 1,200-acre city preserve wrapping a quiet lake in steep oak-hickory hills.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
13. McCormick's Creek State Park
State park · Spencer · 45 mi (est.)
Indiana's first state park: limestone canyon, waterfall and old-growth ravine forest.
Closed now · $7 in-state vehicle
14. Leonard Springs Nature Park
Nature preserve · Bloomington · 49 mi (est.)
Karst springs, a sinking creek and a wetland boardwalk in a small but wild city park.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
15. Summit Lake State Park
State park · New Castle · 50 mi (est.)
An 800-acre lake that draws waterfowl and shorebirds on migration.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
16. Shades State Park
State park · Waveland · 51 mi (est.)
A quieter neighbour to Turkey Run: deep shaded ravines, ladders and Pine Hills nearby.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
17. Turkey Run State Park
State park · Marshall · 56 mi (est.)
Ladder trails through narrow sandstone gorges shaded by relict hemlock.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
18. Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife refuge · Seymour · 60 mi (est.)
Bottomland forest and shallow moist-soil units managed for migrating waterbirds.
Sunrise to sunset · Free
19. Prophetstown State Park
Family activity · West Lafayette · 61 mi (est.)
Restored tallgrass prairie with a living-history farm and short, stroller-friendly loops.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
20. Celery Bog Nature Area
Nature preserve · West Lafayette · 62 mi (est.)
One hundred and ninety-five acres of marsh and wet woods that draw migrating waterfowl each spring.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
21. Whitewater Memorial State Park
State park · Liberty · 63 mi (est.)
Silver Creek Lake with bridle trails through beech-maple woods in the Whitewater valley.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
22. Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife refuge · Madison · 69 mi (est.)
A former proving ground opened on limited days: Indiana's largest grassland bird refuge.
Sunrise to sunset · $3 day pass
23. Shakamak State Park
State park · Jasonville · 70 mi (est.)
Three lakes on reclaimed coal land, ringed by fishing piers and easy shoreline paths.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
24. Spring Mill State Park
State park · Mitchell · 73 mi (est.)
A restored 1800s pioneer village, three caves and virgin timber over Mitchell Plain karst.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
25. Clifty Falls area — Hardy Lake
Nature preserve · Scottsburg · 73 mi (est.)
A quiet reservoir with a raptor rehabilitation center and long shoreline trails.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
26. Clifty Falls State Park
State park · Madison · 80 mi (est.)
Fossil-rich creek beds, four waterfalls and a boulder-strewn canyon above the Ohio.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
27. Versailles State Park
State park · Versailles · 81 mi (est.)
Indiana's second-largest state park: creek bottoms, mountain-bike single-track and cave-pocked ravines.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
28. Ouabache State Park
State park · Bluffton · 84 mi (est.)
Kunkel Lake, a CCC-built park on the Wabash with a resident American bison exhibit.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
29. Hoosier National Forest
Nature preserve · Bedford · 94 mi (est.)
Two hundred thousand federal acres of ridge-and-hollow hardwood, including the Charles C. Deam Wilderness.
Sunrise to sunset · Free
30. Charlestown State Park
State park · Charlestown · 96 mi (est.)
Deep ravines above the Ohio and the ruins of a WWII ammunition plant reclaimed by forest.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
31. Prophetstown area — Tippecanoe River State Park
State park · Winamac · 96 mi (est.)
Sandy oak barrens along the Tippecanoe with wide savanna openings.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
32. Fort Wayne area — Fox Island County Nature Preserve
Nature preserve · Fort Wayne · 97 mi (est.)
A relict inland dune and bog complex protected as a state nature preserve.
7am to 11pm · $2 per person
33. Fox Island County Park
Nature preserve · Fort Wayne · 97 mi (est.)
Six hundred acres of sand dune ridges, swamp forest and a dedicated state nature preserve.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · $5 per vehicle
34. Eagle Marsh Nature Preserve
Nature preserve · Fort Wayne · 101 mi (est.)
A restored 800-acre wetland inside the city, threaded with level gravel trails.
Dawn to dusk · Free
35. Foster Park
City park · Fort Wayne · 103 mi (est.)
A classic riverside city park along the St. Marys with mature sycamores and a long greenway.
Daylight hours, dawn to dusk · Free
36. Falls of the Ohio State Park
Family activity · Clarksville · 105 mi (est.)
386-million-year-old Devonian fossil beds exposed along the Ohio River rapids.
7am to 11pm · $2 per person (interpretive center)
37. George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
Family activity · Vincennes · 105 mi (est.)
A classical memorial on the Wabash where the 1779 fort stood, with riverbank walking.
Sunrise to sunset · Free
38. Kankakee Sands
Nature preserve · Morocco · 106 mi (est.)
Eight thousand restored acres of sand prairie and wetland with a resident bison herd behind fence.
Daylight hours · Free
39. Jasper-Pulaski Fish & Wildlife Area
Wildlife refuge · Medaryville · 106 mi (est.)
The state's great autumn staging ground for sandhill cranes.
Daylight hours; viewing platform open in season · Free
40. O'Bannon Woods State Park
State park · Corydon · 108 mi (est.)
Wrapped inside Harrison-Crawford State Forest above the Blue River, with a working hay press barn.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
41. Patoka River National Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife refuge · Oakland City · 112 mi (est.)
Restored Patoka bottomlands: sloughs, cypress plantings and one of the state's richest wetland bird lists.
Sunrise to sunset · Free
42. Chain O'Lakes State Park
State park · Albion · 115 mi (est.)
Nine connected kettle lakes left by glaciers, best explored by canoe.
7am to 11pm · $7 in-state vehicle
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