Middletown Campus Nature Trail and Woods

The following resources provide information about the nature trail and the woods.

• A story from Miami Regionals Pulse News (October 24, 2024) provides "A Comprehensive Guide to MUM's Nature Trails and Woods" (Maureen Wilson).
• In addition to the updated trail map from 2023 linked from the image above, there is also a 2022 orienteering trail map.
• AllTrails includes a map of the Miami University Middletown Trail Loop.
• The trail was established on October 1, 1978. Here is a story from the October 6, 1978 KAOS Student Newspaper about that event.
• A selection from the 1941 book True Steel, by Christy Borth describes the property that the campus sits on.
• MUM50: Armco Builds a Park - a story on the start of Armco Park, which became the campus, by Rod Nimtz
• Some pictures of the trail from Travel Butler County Ohio.
• Two stories from the KAOS Student Newspaper on awards and designations for the trails: November 23, 1983 and April 1, 1998.
• An oral history interview with David Fall, who lived at Armco Park as the son of the caretaker from 1946-1964 (interview on September 2, 2016 by Marsha Robinson for the Sweet MUMories Oral History Project.
• A soil map of the campus created in March 2020 using the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Web Soil System.