This week, we visited a really nice park in Hendricks County.
McCloud Nature Park is a county park along the Hendricks/Putnam county line.
One of the highlights of the park is this vintage bridge over Big Walnut creek.
The trestle bridge, built in 1913, originally spanned the Monon Creek in Putman county.
It was moved to the park in 2010 at a cost of $817,000.
The view from the bridge.
There's also a nice boardwalk over the wetland area.
Lots of pretty flowers and pollinators.
The park also had unique trail markers, easy for even young kids to follow.
The park is 232 acres of lovely woods, wetlands, and open fields.
There is a nature center, and a live honeybee observation house as well,
but we didn't visit them, due to Covid.
McCloud Nature Park is one of the best parks we've visited in Indiana.
Since we were in the area, we drove to Amo and checked out the Vandalia Trail.
Its a rail trail, paved from Amo to Coatsville, so far, and part of the National Road Heritage Trail.
Very clean restrooms and an equine trail along side of the paved portion.
