Dysart Woods Trail
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Ohio · belmont County

Dysart Woods Trail

Old-growth preserve hike with mature beech maple forest canopy.

Rating
Length
2.5 mi
Difficulty
2
County
belmont
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About This Trail

A 2.5-mile trail through Dysart Woods, a 400-acre preserve containing Ohio’s only known remaining remnant of mixed mesophytic old-growth forest. The 50-acre ancient core features towering white and red oaks, American beech, and sugar maple specimens on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau in Belmont County, now managed by Captina Conservancy.

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Coordinates: 40.1718, -81.0188
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Getting There

From St. Clairsville, take I-70 west to OH-149 south. Continue to Belmont County Road 58 east. Follow signs to Dysart Woods, an old-growth forest preserve. The trailhead parking is at the end of the access road.

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