Pre-registration is required to attend, can be done so online under upcoming events as they are posted weekly. It is unique due to the abundance of wildlife viewing opportunities, environmental education programs, hiking opportunities, and its location in an urban area. The park is day-use only and the 7. Pets, jogging, and bicycles are only allowed on the Otter Creek Road trail. The Lake Trail is accessible to people with all-terrain wheelchairs.
The park is perfect for nature enthusiasts to observe owls, herons, and waterfowl as well as many species of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals such as mink and otter. Hundreds of species of wildflowers, mosses, fungi, ferns, and other plants, as well as trees, shrubs, and vines, add to the natural ecological diversity of the area.
The park has 7. The most challenging trail is the 1. Some trails are wheelchair accessible, and the visitor center has several wheelchairs that can be reserved for free, including one all-terrain motorized model. The man-made lake is 85 acres. It was created by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in to be used for watering steam locomotives and supplying the watering pens for shipped livestock.
In the s, the property was slated to be developed as a neighborhood, but a combination of public pressure for conservation and challenges associated with residential development derailed those plans. The Tennessee Department of Conservation purchased the property in and designated Radnor as the state's first natural area.
Since then, 83 other natural areas have been added to the parks system. The park offers hundreds of ranger-led programs each year, including hikes, canoe floats, bird programs and more.
In recent years, 13,, people have participated in park programs. Nature enthusiasts report seeing owls, herons and waterfowl including eagles, as well as many species of amphibians, reptiles and mammals, such as mink and otter.
The park is day-use only and the 7. Pets, jogging, and bicycles are only allowed on the Otter Creek Road Trail. Natural Area : am until 20 minutes after sunset days a year Restrooms : am until dark. Closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. The acidic soil derived from these rocks is atypical for the Central Basin and supports mountain laurel, various species of blueberry, sourwood, oaks and hickories commonly found on the Highland Rim.
Its lower slopes and hollows support beech, sugar maple, tulip poplar, and shagbark hickory with spicebush, coralberry, and elderberry in the shrub layer. Radnor Lake was protected largely because of public interest that resulted in a campaign to save it from development. This resulted in the State acquiring and then designating it as a state natural area in The reservoir was constructed to provide water for steam engines at Radnor Yard some four miles away via gravity through a downhill flowing pipe.
The lake that was created and the surrounding forest provided excellent habitat for waterfowl and other birds and animals. Today Radnor Lake is one of the most frequently visited natural areas.
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