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).
• Check out iNaturalist, a "crowdsourced species identification system" that helps you figure out the flora and fauna you are observing. It can also be used to see if certain plants or animals are found in a given area through its historical collection of observations that anyone may contribute to. It is interesting to plug in our ZIP code or location name and see what is in the woods around campus.
• 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.