Due to COVID-19, Morgan Conservation Park is
closed to the public until further notice.
The goal of this park is to provide environmental education and passive recreational opportunities to the citizens of Oldham County. An extensive system of hiking trails take visitors through forests, creek banks, glades, and meadows. The steep slopes support mostly regenerating, successional forests dominated by either sugar maple or red cedar and various oaks including chinquapin and red. Other forests are dominated by red cedar and black walnut and bitternut hickory. Other dominant trees found include white ash, hackberry and American basswood. Understory species include redbud, spicebush and coralberry. There is one small cedar glade on the property, and woody species found in the opening include red cedar, redbud, rough leaf dogwood, southern blackhaw, fragrant sumac, and dwarf hackberry with an herb layer of false pennyroyal, green milkweed, croton, buttonweed, narrow leaf vervain, and various spurges. The entrance to the park on both sides of the drive have been seeded to big bluestem, Indiangrass, little bluestem, and various flowers including bee balm, black-eyed susan, New England aster, and gray headed coneflower. There are several ponds and streams that provide habitat for 19 reptile and amphibian species. More than 236 plants, 14 mammals and 59 birds have been observed on park lands.
Oldham County recieved the 2017 KHLCF Stewardship Award for its outstanding management of the trail system.
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