Slippery Elm Trail
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| Slippery Elm Trail | |
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| Rails to Trails | |
| Length | 13 miles[1][2][3] |
| Location | Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio |
| Established | 1995[4] |
| Trailheads |  Bowling Green, Portage, Rudolph, North Baltimore |
| Use | hiking, bicycling and in-line skating |
| Grade | flat railroad grades |
| Difficulty |  Wheelchair accessible[2] |
| Months | 12 |
| Sights | Rudolph Savanna, Cricket Frog Cove, Black Swamp Preserve |
| Surface | Paved[1][2][3] |
| Right of way | Baltimore & Ohio[5][6] |
| Website | Wood County Park District: Slippery Elm Trail |
The Slippery Elm Trail is a rail to trail conversion in Wood County, Ohio that runs 13 miles from Bowling Green, through Portage and Rudolph, to North Baltimore, Ohio.[1][2][3]
The Bowling Green Railroad Company was founded in 1874. It functioned as a spur line to link Bowling Green to the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway (C.H. & D.) that ran northwest of Bowling Green, through Tontogany, Ohio. In 1887, the CH&D railroad purchased enough stock to control the Bowling Green line. In 1890, the Bowling Green Railroad Company absorbed the portion of railroad that makes today's trail, which was then called the Toledo, Findlay and Springfield Railroad. The line was later purchased by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1917, and operated as B&O until 1978. [5][6][8]
The Wood County Parks District opened the rail trail in 1995.[4]
