Beautiful trails wander through hills and valleys. Very scenic and relaxing.

This a city hidden gem! Great avenue for nature walks for children and adults.

Lovely walking trails and dog park with several different fenced areas

Great place to walk and enjoy being outside and the trails are great! Love the Nature Center too and the staff there! Families have a lot fun and its a wonderful place to go and spend time !

We had a great time on a short walk through the trails. There are signs posted as you go along that help you choose/stay on the route you want to go.We ended at the nature center and spent a little time there. We would definitely go again!

Good dog park, wish the water bowls were useable

Great park with some hiking trails and a dog park. The park has gotten a lot better over the years

What a great place, tucked just inside the outskirts of the big city.. my young children always live the visit to the nature center and thourghly enjoy the chosen easy walking paths. The educational benefits prove quite a lasting impression. (Just as they did 30 some years ago.) Enjoy and hold on to this special, safe place for our children

I love this place! My daughter is three and I love to walk her along the trails and then head to the park. It sure tires her out which is great because its what Im going for plus I want her to know their is a lot more to life than tv and phones. I want to be able to take her on trails and hikes when she gets older so this is a great beginner course for a toddler! I try to come here at least once a week since I found a great kid friendly local trail/park!

Experienced the Backyard Birds event. Great program for kids. Lots of questions were answered by a very knowledgeable Parks employee with 20+ years experience.

Nice trails to walk on! Clean beautiful park!

Love it. The dog park, trails, great place to destress.

Great Nature Park lots of stuff to do fun to visit

Such good trails and wonderful parks. A lot to do and see. The forest is gorgeous and the trails are well maintained. So wonderful to have a beautiful space so close to the buzz of the city. ♡

Awesome place to hike!!

Perfect day to be outside.

This is a little hidden gem! We love the park, but had never been into the nature center. What a great place! There are public restrooms (the initial reason for our visit) which are well cared for. There is a cure little tunnel that leads to an animal burrow the kids can go into and look around to see what life would be like down there. They can peek into little holes in the tunnel too, to see what types of animals might burrow in tunnels like that. There are puzzles to do, a nature touch table, and a puppet theater for kids to use. There are also small live animals to check out, including turtles, snakes, etc. You can go into the large conference room at the back to look through a huge viewing window and watch birds and other animals come to the feeders back there. What a great find!

So much to do and the nature center is awesome!

I take my dogs here all the time. Its probably their favorite place on earth. Long beautiful walking trails, nice dog park, nice child park, frisbee disc golfing, ziplining, I love rum village!!

What a wonderful place :) great for solo hikes, couples time, walking the dog or family outings!

Always a great place for a quick hike or for the kids to play at the playground.

Best interactive place for younger kids. They had to ask us to leave cause they wanted to go home, we were there all afternoon. Totally surprised that smallish building held so much enjoyment. Kids wanted to go back next day. There was a tunnel for the kids to go through to see how animals lived underground, all kinds of educational games and a dinosaur dig that really surprised me cause they loved it and spent about an hour burying and finding the dinosaurs. Ages were 6 and 9. An additional bonus was the unlit auditorium with the back wall totally glass so not dark but made the people inside invisible to the bird and wildlife sanctuary just outside. 5 different bird feeders had lots of birds. A large poster showed some of the local birds with some description. Several squirrels also of course. Need someplace safe and educational to take the kids? This is the place. A small hike away is a fantastic playground with a roller slide, wide enough for two kids to go down at once. SO different from other local parks. This place is a hidden gem and should not be missed.

Safe, peaceful outdoor fun

A bit of the nature right in town!

Nice trails. I like the signs so you know where you are. Stumps, boards, and fallen trees make it interesting.

Beautiful Nature Center!

Very a good public adventure Park. A lot of trails. Worth the time spent with my fiance.

Went on the Sunday Exploring the Woods Nature Hike, it was a lot of fun and interesting. Always a great place near by for relaxing in nature with a lot of things to do.

Looking forward to going back!

Animal viewing geared toward children with a cool plastic tunnel. Many exhibits were empty and animals seemed content.

Good for a quick run or walk, with trails and playgrounds.

Clean, not alot of people for a Saturday but it was like 36 degrees out to...

They park is nice. Nice area to walk around in.

Drove over 30 minutes to what we thought was an. Exhibit if reptiles. Ended up being a lecture. Not for 4 year olds.

A few short steps on the trail and the rest of the modern world seems to fade away. Love it.

Pretty cool park. One of the few places in the area for a littlw peice of nature. Nice dog park. Ropes course area is fun. Frisby golf. Just stay away at night and there is crime in the surrounding neighborhood.

The decay of the trees Was sad .

One of my favorite parks to go to for a run a long walk in the trails or to take our daisy to the dog park they have .

There were so many things to do, I cant wait till the snow fall so we can go sledding here! The new playground is amazing!! I did notice they were building something new on the hill!!??

Dog park is clean and friendly. Nature center and frisbee golf. Fun for all ages.

Great place for family or self. There is disk golf, activity courses, zip lines, nature trails, and a nature center!

I love coming here to clear my mind and just walk

Underlooked and underappreciated. Rum village is a good park with a lot to offer and more interesting natural features than most people realize.

Very nice park for free 18 hole disc golf. Having the tournaments here has helped bring in a few new improvements to the signs and this place is generally busy during the summer. New aerial park can been enjoyed by those looking for a new type of adventure and dont fear heights. Park is very well maintained and the trails can be a decent hike.

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Wonderful trails, well marked, and nice, thought out nature center

It was very well kept. Very friendly staff.

One of the best parks in St Joeseph county. Everyone associated with the up keep of this park do a fantastic job! Keep up the great work. Also the fall festival this year was the best! We hope it keeps growing and growing.

A lil slice of cool forest in a busy city

Good place to take clients to listen to wildlife.

Very peaceful

Clean, informative nice fir little kids

I loved watching the animals in their natural habitat while sitting in a room and looking out of a very large window wall.

Great place for kids to get out of the house.

Cool trails and to to far to get there.

A very enjoyable and fun place for the whole family

Like the nature center, and the hiking trails.

Nice trails with alot of wildlife

A very nice park to go to to get a piece of mine in to clear your head if you want to think or just take a walk in the park and enjoy nature its my favorite hideout place

It was a awesome place has a nice little Nature Center more for the kids the staff was very polite to me and my service dog

Nice park! Great trails for K-3 kids, and a nature center with some interesting info. A great afternoon adventure.

I love this park great area for walks

So pretty and peaceful!

Lots of cool things to learn

Just got married here on Halloween. Pretty good place.

I dont go often but every time I have went they have improved

I love their trails. I take my 3 kids there all the time even the 2 yrs old. Lots of choices from 1 mile down.

Not many ropes courses around, so this one has a mini monopoly. Given that, I expected less than more but was pleasantly surprised. Just try and do this at off times if you can.

Great place to go walk and enjoy nature. Relaxing.

Great park thats large with running or hiking trails. Well kept

Great park, live to walk the dogs there

New dog park opened October 2019, is terrific!

Alwys a great place to walk or have a picnic. The nature center is a great place for a visit.

Nice trails! But the people who marked the bike trails did a totally poor job. The person telling us how to get out was going in circles right along with us! Very confusing trails.

Beautiful, invigorating morning on the trails. Unfortunately, not quite enough snow for cross country skiing.

Real fun. 5 stars of it was cheaper.

I love this place!

Nice park. Well maintained, but I miss the zoo and other benefits that were offered years ago.

Doing a lot to clean it up and make it a Family friendly place. Disc golf is kept up and mostly easy.

SO MUCH $FUN

I like this park, there are some beautiful trails and a nice playground, but they allow people to rent out picnic areas and blast really loud music systems during parties which really takes away from the nature, as well as the enjoyment on the playground.

Love riding the trails! Very well kept for us riders.

Good place to go walking.. In the woods or on the black top.

Great place to enjoy the fall...very peaceful and tha trails are great love this park:)

Beautiful place to walk

Nice park, trails, & fun disc golf course!

This place is so nice for free and the staff is wonderful!

Beautiful forest and trails, neat nature center, kids enjoyed it all

A beautiful hardwood forest so close to downtown South Bend!

Hidden gem. Great trails and nature center.

One of the best places for feeder watching in a nature center in the region.

Great walking area.

Beautiful

Love going for a walk there

Trails to explore, disc golfing course, playground, obstacle course and nature center.

This is my favorite place for a nature fix!

Always love coming out here

Great place

Love it

It was closed on this visit