Rule 1501:31-15-04 | State-owned or administered lands designated as public hunting areas.
(A) The areas administered by divisions of the Ohio department of natural resources that are listed within this rule are hereby designated as public hunting areas upon which hunting and trapping may occur as prescribed by the Revised Code or the Administrative Code.
(1) The following lands or wildlife areas owned, administered, or controlled by the division of wildlife are public hunting areas:
Acadia cliffs
Aldrich pond
Ale's run
Andreoff
Appalachian hills
Aquilla
Auburn marsh
Beach city
Beaver creek
Berlin lake
Big island
Black fork bottom
Bott
Braceville
Broken aro
Brook
Brush creek
Buffalo fork
Caesar creek
Camp Belden
Canal road
Cascade way side
Castalia state fish hatchery
Charles O. Trump
Cherp's eagle valley
Circleville canal
Clark lake
Clouse lake
Coalton
Conant
Conneaut
Consol Holloway area
Cooper hollow
Creek road
Crown city
Dan and Margaret James
Darke
Deer creek
Deer creek reservoir (Stark county park district)
Delaware
Delaware Strine
Delaware Wetstone
Dempsey's Sandusky bay
Dillon
Dorset
Eagle creek
East fork
Egypt valley
Elm road
Elmon Richards Scioto river
Fallsville
Fayette county wildlife area 1
Fayette county wildlife area 3
Fayette county wildlife area 4
Fayette county wildlife area 5
Fayette county wildlife area 6
Fayette county wildlife area 7
Fayette county wildlife area 8
Fayette county wildlife area 9
Fayette county wildlife area 10
Firestone Yeagley
Fish creek
Flint run
Florida
Fox lake
Fox's marsh
Fulton pond
Funk bottoms
Grand river
Grant lake
Great Miami river
Greenfield dam
Hambden orchard
Hammertown reservoir
Hanby
Hancock county wildlife area 1
Hancock county wildlife area 2
Hancock county wildlife area 3
Hancock county wildlife area 4
Hancock county wildlife area 5
Hancock county wildlife area 6
Hancock county wildlife area 7
Hebron state fish hatchery
Hellbender bluff
Henry county wildlife area 1
Henry county wildlife area 2
Henry county wildlife area 3
Highlandtown
Honey point
Indian creek
Jackson county line
Jesse Owens
Jockey hollow
Keen
Killbuck marsh
Killbuck Wallhonding
Killdeer plains
Kincaid springs state fish hatchery
Kinnikinic
Knobbys prairie
Knox lake
Kokosing lake
Kuehnle
Lake La Su An
Lake park
Lake white tailwaters
Lawrence woods
Leesville
Liberty
Little Chickasaw
Little portage
Long lake
Lower killbuck creek
Mackey Ford
Mad river
Madison county wildlife area 1
Madison county wildlife area 2
Magee marsh
Mallard club
Marion and Fred Conkel
Maumee river weir rapids
Meilke road savanna
Meiners
Mercer
Mesopotamia
Metzger marsh
Milan
Millers blue hole
Missionary island
Mogadore reservoir
Mohican river
Mohler
Monroe lake
Mosquito creek
Munro basin
New lyme
North turkeyfoot
Ohio river access - Forked run
Ohio river access - Old Town creek
Ohio river access - Shade river
Ohio river lock and dam 15
Ohio river lock and dam 18
Ohio river lock and dam 21
Ohio river lock and dam 23
Oldaker
Orwell
Ottawa county wildlife area 1
Ottawa county wildlife area 2
Oxbow lake (including western agreement parcel)
Paint creek fishing access
Paint creek lake
Parkersburg
Pater
Pickaway county wildlife area 1
Pickaway county wildlife area 2
Pickaway county wildlife area 3
Pickaway county wildlife area 4
Pickaway county wildlife area 5
Pickaway county wildlife area 6
Pickaway county wildlife area 7
Pickaway county wildlife area 8
Pickaway county wildlife area 9
Pickaway county wildlife area 10
Pickerel creek
Pipe creek
Pleasant valley
Portage path
Powelson
Prairie creek nature park
Putnum county wildlife area 1
Putnum county wildlife area 2
Putnum county wildlife area 3
Racine
Resthaven
Richland county wildlife area 1
Rock mill lake
Ross county wildlife area 1
Ross county wildlife area 2
Ross county wildlife area 3
Ross county wildlife area 4
Ross county wildlife area 5
Ross lake
Rush creek conservancy district
Rush run
Salt fork
Samuels
Sandusky county wildlife area 1
Sandusky county wildlife area 2
Sandusky county wildlife area 3
Sandusky county wildlife area 4
Sandusky county wildlife area 5
Sandusky county wildlife area 6
Sandusky county wildlife area 7
Scenic vista
Seneca county park district conservation area
Seneca county wildlife area 1
Seneca county wildlife area 2
Seneca county wildlife area 3
Seneca county wildlife area 4
Shenango
Shreve lake
Silver creek
Simco
Six mile dam - Walhonding reservoir
Spencer lake
Spring valley
St. Joseph river
St. Mary's state fish hatchery
Stillwater
Sugar creek
Superior
Symmes township
Taylor ridge
Three locks road - Scioto river
Tiffin river
Toussaint creek
Tranquility
Tri-valley
Turkey ridge
Tycoon lake
Urbana
Valley run
Van Tassel
Vernon A. Luthman Tecumseh
Veto lake
Vinton furnace
Walborn reservoir
Wallace H. O'Dowd
Warren
Waterloo
Wellington
Wellston
Wendell R. LaDue
West branch
West farmington
West harbor
Whitey case
Willard marsh
Willow point
Wingfoot
Wolf creek
Wood county wildlife area 1
Wood county wildlife area 2
Wood county wildlife area 4
Wood county wildlife area 5
Wood county wildlife area 6
Wood county wildlife area 7
Wood county wildlife area 8
Wood county wildlife area 9
Wood county wildlife area 10
Woodbury
Woodland trails
Wyandot
Zepernick
(2) The following areas administered by the division of parks and watercraft are public hunting areas:
Adams lake
Alum creek
A.W. Marion
Barkcamp
Beaver creek
Blue rock
Buck creek
Buckeye lake
Burr oak
Caesar creek
Cowan lake
Deer creek
Delaware
Dillon
East fork
Findley
Forked run
Geneva
Grand lake St. Marys
Great seal
Guilford lake
Hocking hills
Hueston woods
Indian lake
Jefferson lake
Jesse Owens
Kelley's island
Kiser lake
Lake Alma
Lake Logan
Lake Loramie
Lake Milton
Madison lake
Mary Jane Thurston
Mosquito lake
North bass island
Paint creek
Portage lakes
Pymatuning
Rocky fork
Salt fork
Stonelick
Strouds run
Sycamore
Tar hollow
Van Buren
West branch
Wolf run
(3) The following areas administered by the division of forestry are public hunting areas:
Beaver creek
Blue rock
Brush creek
Dean
Fernwood
Gifford
Harrison
Hocking
Maumee
Mohican memorial
Perry
Pike
Richland furnace
Scioto trail
Shade river
Shawnee
Sunfish creek
Tar hollow
Vinton furnace
West blue rock
Willow grove
Yellow creek
Zaleski
(B) All definitions set forth in rule 1501:31-1-02 of the Administrative Code apply to this rule.
Last updated February 1, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Supplemental Information
Amplifies: 1531.06, 1531.08, 1531.10
Five Year Review Date: 2/1/2029
Prior Effective Dates: 8/25/1976 (Temp.), 6/1/1977 (Temp.), 6/1/1978 (Temp.), 6/1/1979 (Temp.), 6/1/1980 (Temp.), 6/1/1981 (Temp.), 6/1/1982 (Temp.), 11/12/1982 (Temp.), 5/3/1983 (Temp.), 5/31/1984 (Temp.), 6/1/1986 (Temp.), 11/21/1986 (Emer.), 6/1/1987 (Temp.), 6/1/1988, 10/13/1988 (Emer.), 7/1/1989, 7/31/1990, 7/31/1992, 10/31/1992, 8/15/1995, 8/10/1996, 1/25/1997, 6/1/1997, 6/1/1999, 3/1/2000, 7/5/2000, 7/22/2001, 2/1/2002, 7/19/2002, 6/4/2003, 5/28/2004, 5/27/2005, 1/1/2006, 7/1/2006, 7/1/2007, 7/1/2008, 11/24/2008, 1/1/2010, 7/1/2010, 7/1/2011, 7/1/2012, 7/11/2013, 1/1/2014, 11/7/2014, 7/1/2020