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🎲 INTERNATIONAL MONDAY BOARD GAME NIGHTS @ Voyager Craft Beer Bar 🍺 Every Monday @ 19:00 \| Voyager Craft Beer Bar Forget the Monday blues. We’re turning the start of the week into a night of strategy, social deduction, and world-class craft beer. Whether you’re a ruthless tactician or just here for the laughs, your seat at the table is waiting. This isn’t just a one-off event—we are building Ljubljana’s premier boardgaming community. Our mission? To make Mondays your favorite night of the week. 👉 Join the Boardgame WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQ939ioFYXY6pK71oXfh4h 🌍 International & Inclusive We are a global crowd! The primary language of play is English, making this the perfect spot for expats, nomads, and locals to connect. No cliques, no gatekeeping—just good vibes. 🎲 WHAT WE PLAY Mostly fun, social, easy-to-learn games: party games bluffing & social deduction light strategy quick, interactive games Think: laughing, debating, teaming up, betraying your friends 😄 👉 Not super “hardcore nerdy” — but those games are welcome too. Got your own? BRING IT! We encourage you to bring your favorite games from home. Share the games you love with the community. 🍻 Why Voyager? We’ve moved to Voyager Craft Beer Bar for a reason. Great gaming deserves great beer. Swap the basic drafts for premium, independent craft brews while you plot your next move. 💡 How it Works Come Solo or with Friends: Most people show up alone. We’ll get you into a group immediately. 📍 Event Details 📅 When: Every Monday @ 19:00 📍 Where: Voyager Craft Beer Bar 💶 Entry: Free (Support the venue by grabbing a craft beer or a drink!) 👉 Join the Boardgame WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQ939ioFYXY6pK71oXfh4h Connect with the community beforehand and after the event. Find players for a game you love before Monday arrives. 🌍 Part of Ljubljana International Hosted by the city's biggest international community. Follow us for more: 👉 linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational

🎲 LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL MONDAY BOARD GAME NIGHTS 🍺 @ Voyager Craft Beer Bar \| Every Monday @ 19:00 Forget the Monday blues. We’re turning the start of the week into a night of strategy, social deduction, and world-class craft beer. Whether you’re a ruthless tactician or just here for the laughs, your seat at the table is waiting. This isn’t just a one-off event—we are building Ljubljana’s premier boardgaming community. Our mission? To make Mondays your favorite night of the week. 👉 Join the Boardgame WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQ939ioFYXY6pK71oXfh4h 🌍 International & Inclusive We are a global crowd! The primary language of play is English, making this the perfect spot for expats, nomads, and locals to connect. No cliques, no gatekeeping—just good vibes. 🎲 WHAT TO EXPECT 15+ players every week 20+ games to choose from 🎲 WHAT WE PLAY Mostly fun, social, easy-to-learn games: party games bluffing & social deduction light strategy quick, interactive games Think: laughing, debating, teaming up, betraying your friends 😄 👉 Not super “hardcore nerdy” — but those games are welcome too. Got your own? BRING IT! We encourage you to bring your favorite games from home. Share the games you love with the community. 🍻 Why Voyager? We’ve moved to Voyager Craft Beer Bar for a reason. Great gaming deserves great beer. Swap the basic drafts for premium, independent craft brews while you plot your next move. 💡 How it Works Come Solo or with Friends: Most people show up alone. We’ll get you into a group immediately. 📍 Event Details 📅 When: Every Monday @ 19:00 📍 Where: Voyager Craft Beer Bar 💶 Entry: Free (Support the venue by grabbing a craft beer or a drink!) 👉 Join the Boardgame WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/GQ939ioFYXY6pK71oXfh4h Connect with the community beforehand and after the event. Find players for a game you love before Monday arrives. 🌍 Part of Ljubljana International Hosted by the city's biggest international community. Follow us for more: 👉 linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational

**Hey fellow AWS enthusiasts! ✨** This evening we'll takle our AWS costs! 💪🏻💸 We are happy to have **[Meisi Zhan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meisi-z-52702b61/),** a Customer Facing Cloud Engineer @ codecentric, joining to walk us through **FinOps in Action with AWS Spot Instances**. Thanks to our friends at **[codecentric Nürnberg](https://www.codecentric.de/standorte/nuernberg)** for sponsoring the event with food and drinks and opening their wonderful offices for us! **📆 Tonight's Agenda** 19:00 - Welcoming **19:15 - Talk by Meisi followed by Q&A and knowledge sharing** 20:00 - Food, Drinks & Networking Looking forward to seeing you 👋🏻 **[Nora](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-schoener/)** & **[Frank](https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankprechtel/)** \-\-\- The talk ⤵️ **FinOps in Action: Real-World Cost Optimization using AWS Spot Instance** The talk is about our AWS funded PoC project, this project demonstrates the implementation of FinOps principles by leveraging AWS Spot Instances to achieve significant infrastructure savings without compromising workload performance. It provides a technical blueprint for orchestrating Spot Fleets and Auto Scaling groups, offering a practical approach to data-driven cloud financial management. The speaker⤵️ **Meisi Zhan** is a distinguished Customer-facing Cloud Consultant and Evangelist at codecentric, bringing over eight years of expertise in IT consulting and software engineering. As a highly experienced Pre-Sales Engineer and Solution Architect, she has a proven track record of building trusted advisor relationships and driving customer success across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, and GCP. Meisi excels at translating complex technical challenges into quantifiable, TCO-justified business value and viable technical architectures. Her approach focuses on Transformation Consulting, DevOps, and FinOps, ensuring that cloud-native solutions are both innovative and financially optimized. Get in Contact with Meis through [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/meisi-z-52702b61/). \-\-\- **Please note:** At the event, photos and videos will be taken for marketing purposes both by our hosts and our location sponsors. We try to offer a hybrid experience by providing a video stream of the talk. There will be no recording published after the event. Please also keep in mind, that we try our best effort to provide a good streaming experience. We don't offer a professional stream, so delays, technical issues or other interference are a matter to be tolerated.

We’re launching a beginner Bachata & Salsa course together with one of the best dance schools in Ljubljana — @utripplesa. You’ll learn the basics, get comfortable with the movements and simply enjoy dancing in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Perfect for those who have been wanting to try partner dancing but didn’t know where to start. 📅 **Sundays at 17:00 (starting 05.04)** ⏱ **4 classes (1.5 hours each)** 💶 **Price:** €45 for the full course €40 per person if you join with a partner or a friend If you didn’t attend the trial class, you can join the **first session for €10** to see if you like it before committing to the full course. 👉 **Register here:** [https://forms.gle/Gp47pWi8Pk2QsKTu5](https://forms.gle/Gp47pWi8Pk2QsKTu5) Please make sure to **check your email and WhatsApp after registering** — we’ll send all confirmations and updates there. Let’s dance ✨

🇹🇷 Ljubljana International: Slow Turkish Aegean Dinner – Rakı, Meze & Soul 📅 Saturday, June 13 ⏰ 19:00 📍 Meyhane Zahir, Ljubljana For one evening, Ljubljana becomes Izmir. We'll gather around communal tables and enjoy a curated selection of authentic Turkish mezes, accompanied by rakı, music, stories, and great company. A meyhane is more than a restaurant. It's a place where strangers become friends, where meals last for hours, and where people come together to share food, culture, laughter, and life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍽️ THE EXPERIENCE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The evening begins with a complimentary welcome glass of rakı and a short introduction to Turkish rakı culture. Together we'll raise a toast before dinner begins. Throughout the evening, a curated selection of authentic Turkish Aegean mezes and dishes will be served to the table for sharing. Our chef will introduce the dishes and explain the traditions behind them. Expect a slow-paced evening centered around good food, meaningful conversations, and genuine hospitality. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🍴 FIXED SHARING MENU ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Kurucacık • Köpoğlu • Hummus • Girit Ezmesi • Barbunya Pilaki • Seasonal Salad • Unlimited Toasted Bread • Butter Shrimp • İrmik Helvası (Traditional Semolina Dessert) • 1 Glass of Rakı 💰 Price: €39 per person Additional drinks such as wine, beer, soft drinks, and extra glasses of rakı will be available separately and are not included in the event price. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌱 VEGETARIAN & VEGAN FRIENDLY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ One of the beautiful things about Aegean meyhane cuisine is that many dishes are naturally vegetarian or vegan. Vegetarian guests are already well accommodated, and vegan options can be arranged with advance notice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 THE ATMOSPHERE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The evening begins with soft Turkish fasil and Aegean melodies, creating the feeling of a seaside dinner somewhere between Izmir and Bodrum. As the night unfolds, the music gradually becomes more lively, moving into upbeat Aegean and Balkan rhythms while keeping the focus on conversation, connection, and shared experiences. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 PERFECT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Food lovers • Travelers • Expats and internationals • Locals curious about Turkish culture • People looking for meaningful conversations • Anyone who enjoys slow dining and authentic cultural experiences ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ LIMITED TO 25 GUESTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ To preserve the intimate atmosphere of a traditional meyhane, attendance is limited to just 25 guests. 👇 HOW TO SECURE ENTRY: You must fill out the Google Form below to claim your seat. Spots are first-come, first-served. Once we hit 25, the list closes. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPgLqvMbIxJaLhLK2HHISfufLPSYoY7R4RYX4xjY1ipt2JZg/viewform?usp=publish-editor Come hungry. Come curious. Come ready to share. Şerefe! 🇹🇷🥂

Tokratna Podnebna kavarna, že šesta po vrsti, bo posvečena **prilagajanju podnebnim spremembam**. Tudi tokrat bo koncept dogodka sledil preizkušenemu receptu z nekaj uvodnimi krajšimi predstavitvami strokovnjakov in praktikantov s področja, potem pa bo več časa namenjenega debati. Kot prvi govornici bomo imeli na začetku čast prisluhniti **mag. Mojci Dolinar**, ki na ARSO že od začetka razvija podnebne projekcije za Slovenijo na podlagi trendov iz preteklosti in zna iz zapletenih grafov izločiti lekcije za državo in državljane na poljuden način. Sledila bo predstavitev staroste slovenskega prilagajanja, **dr. Lučke Kajfež Bogataj**, ki se bo tokrat posvetila predvsem opozorilom o implikacijah podnebnih sprememb za varnost in konflikt v svetu. Na koncu pa bo **dr. Janez Berdavs** na osnovi predstavljene nuje hitrega in celovitega prilagajanja predstavil izzive, ki ji postavlja podnebni zakon za uspešno prilagajanje v Sloveniji. S tem si želimo začeti **široko javno razpravo o tem kaj je cilj prilagajanja v Sloveniji in kako do tja priti**. Z udeleženci bomo na delavniški način zastavili ključne teze in kritike trenutnega sistema s ciljem zasnovati strokovno poljudni članek za objavo v medijih. Vabljeni, da se nam vsi, ki vas to področje zanima, pridružite v sredo, **10\. junija 2026 ob 19\.30**, v prostorih **Info točke Misija 100** na **Pogačarjevem trgu 3.** Prijave zbiramo preko obrazca na spletni strani: https://ipres.si/neprilagojeno-prilagajanje/. Lepo vabljeni!

Ljubljana International: Pub Quiz 🧠🍻 New to Ljubljana? Looking to expand your social circle? Or simply searching for a fun Tuesday evening? Join us for an international pub quiz where great questions, friendly competition, and interesting people come together. Whether you arrive with friends or come completely alone, you'll find a welcoming group and plenty of opportunities to meet new people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 EVENT DETAILS 📅 Every Tuesday ⏰ 20:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 1, Ljubljana 💶 €5 per person 👥 Teams of 2–8 🌍 Quiz in English 👥 Expected attendance: 30–45 people ⚠️ Capacity limit: 45 people 🎟️ Walk-ins welcome, registration recommended: https://forms.gle/V5fJieLx3ySXjnoS7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHAT TO EXPECT ✅ Four rounds of quiz questions ✅ General knowledge, culture, geography, music, movies, history, science, and surprises ✅ Friendly international atmosphere ✅ Prizes for the winning teams ✅ A chance to meet people from all over the world No team? No problem. Many attendees come alone and we help match people into teams every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 ABOUT LJUBLJANA INTERNATIONAL Ljubljana International is the largest international community in Ljubljana with more than 1,500 members and over 200 events organized. Our events bring together students, Erasmus participants, remote workers, digital nomads, researchers, entrepreneurs, freelancers, engineers, and locals who enjoy meeting people from different cultures. Most people attend alone for the first time. Many leave with new friends, future travel buddies, professional connections, and plans for the following week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 JOIN OUR COMMUNITY The event lasts a few hours. The community lasts all year. Join our WhatsApp community where members organize meetups, trips, sports activities, dinners, and spontaneous adventures throughout the week. 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 FINDING THE GROUP Simply look for the largest international group in the venue or ask the staff where the Ljubljana International Pub Quiz is happening. No need to arrive exactly on time. Join whenever you can while the event is running. Make new friends. Make new memories. Make Ljubljana your own. See you on Tuesday! 🍺

📚🍻 Ljubljana International: ZAP Pub Quiz – Every Wednesday at The Place! 🧠✨ 🎉 NO TEAM? NO PROBLEM! 💬 All questions in English \| €5 entry \| Everyone welcome\! 🤔 Want to join the ZAP Pub Quiz but don’t have a team? ✈️ Just moved to Ljubljana? 🙈 Friends bailed last minute? Zero stress — we’ve got you. Every Wednesday at 19:00 at The Place (Plečnikov trg 1) we host a fun, friendly, international pub quiz night with 100+ people from all over the world! 🌍 ✨ WHY JOIN? ✅ Perfect for solo players – we match you with great people 🤝 Meet internationals, locals & Erasmus students 🧩 No trivia expertise needed – fun, mixed categories 🎯 A weekly tradition to build real friendships 🏆 Win prizes – beers, vouchers & bragging rights 🕹️ HOW IT WORKS 1️⃣ Join WhatsApp Group for team formation & updates: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 2️⃣ SIGN UP (RECOMMENDED!) Helps us manage teams & seating: 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 3️⃣ Introduce yourself & say you're coming 4️⃣ Come alone or with friends 5️⃣ Pay €5 at the venue (cash/card) 6️⃣ Grab a drink 🍺 & meet your team 7️⃣ Play 5 rounds of Trivia Madness 🎵🌍😂🎬🧠 🎯 TEAM FORMATION (IMPORTANT) 📌 Everything happens inside our WhatsApp group 📌 Solo players get matched automatically 📌 If you already have a team → just sign up together 👉 Join WhatsApp: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 👉 Quick Sign-Up Form (2 seconds): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 🕺 SCHEDULE 🕖 18:30–19:00 – Arrival, drinks & team formation 🧠 19:00–22:00 – 5 rounds of trivia 🏆 22:00+ – Prizes, drinks & after-party vibes 📍 DETAILS 📅 When: Every Wednesday 📍 Where: The Place, Plečnikov trg 1 💶 Price: €5 per person 👫 Teams: of 2–8 people (we help you find one!) 🗣️ Language: English 🍻 Vibe: Fun, friendly, international 🔗 Useful Links (Save These!) 🌍 Linktree (all links in one place): 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational 💬 WhatsApp Group: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 📝 Sign-Up Form: 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 💡 Whether you're new in town, a trivia master, or just here for laughs — This isn’t just a quiz. This is Ljubljana’s favorite Wednesday tradition. 📲 Join, play, laugh, connect — and make Wednesdays legendary with Ljubljana International. 🎉✨

📚🍻 ZAP Pub Quiz – Your New Wednesday Tradition! Powered by Ljubljana International 🧠✨ If you want a fun night, new friends, good vibes, and a mix of internationals & locals — this is the Wednesday event you don’t want to miss. Come solo. Come with friends. Either way, we’ll put you in a team and you’ll leave knowing new people. 📍 The Place, Plečnikov trg 1 ⏰ Every Wednesday @ 19:00 💶 €5 entry • All English • Open to everyone ✨ The Vibe 🌍 A big, friendly, international crowd 😄 Easy to socialize — zero awkwardness 🍺 Chill drinks + good music + fun atmosphere 🧠 5 trivia rounds (memes, geography, music, movies, pop culture) 🏆 Prizes & bragging rights 🔥 Great mid-week energy boost It’s not about winning — it’s about connecting, laughing, and having a good time. 🕹️ How To Join 1️⃣ Join our WhatsApp Group Team forming + updates happen here: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 2️⃣ Sign Up (recommended!) This helps us organize seating & teams: 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 3️⃣ Show up (solo or with friends) 4️⃣ Pay €5 at the bar 5️⃣ Grab a drink 🍺 6️⃣ Meet your team & enjoy the quiz! 👥 Teams 👫 Teams of 2–8 players 🙋 Solo players get matched right away 💬 Coordination is super easy through WhatsApp WhatsApp Group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK Sign-Up Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 🕺 Timeline 🕧 18:30–19:00 — Arrivals, chit-chat, team formation 🧠 19:00–22:00 — Quiz (5 rounds) 🏆 22:00+ — Prizes + after-quiz drinks 📍 Essentials 📅 Every Wednesday 📍 The Place, Plečnikov trg 1 💰 €5 🗣️ English 👥 Teams 2–8 🍻 Friendly, social, international crowd 🔗 Important Links 🌍 All links in one place (Linktree): 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational 💬 WhatsApp Group: 👉 https://chat.whatsapp.com/KB3YaX1GuqY4eYcYUh3TpK 📝 Quick Sign-Up: 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-nHP7z815r8oxeyqlPTFRuQ_wSaQNZCgzRQ30nG9rIvB5-A/viewform 💡 If you want a mid-week plan that’s fun, social, relaxed, and full of new people — you’ll love this quiz night. 📲 See you on Wednesday — come meet the community! 🎉✨

Ljubljana International: Tuesday Pub Quiz 🧠🌍🍺 Looking for a reason to leave the house on a Tuesday? Join a room full of internationals, locals, students, professionals, travelers, and curious minds for an evening of quiz questions, good conversations, and new connections. You don't need to be a quiz expert to have fun. The goal isn't just to win — it's to meet people, have a laugh, and become more connected in Ljubljana. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 LOGISTICS 📅 Every Tuesday ⏰ 20:00 📍 Pub LOO-BLAH-NAH Center Adamič-Lundrovo nabrežje 1, Ljubljana 💶 €5 per person 👥 Teams of 2–8 🌍 Quiz in English 👥 Expected attendance: 30–45 people ⚠️ Capacity: 45 people 🎟️ Walk-ins welcome, registration recommended: https://forms.gle/V5fJieLx3ySXjnoS7 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 COME ALONE OR WITH FRIENDS One of the most common questions we get is: "Can I come alone?" Absolutely. Many attendees join by themselves and we help them find a team. Some of the strongest friendships in our community started with two strangers sitting at the same quiz table. Bring friends, bring coworkers, bring your Erasmus flatmates — or simply show up and meet new people. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 THE QUIZ • Four rounds of questions • General knowledge, music, geography, history, culture, movies, science, and surprises • Friendly competition • Great atmosphere • Prizes for the winning teams Quiz starts at 20:00 and finishes around 22:00. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 WHO ARE WE? Ljubljana International is Ljubljana's largest international community with more than 1,500 members and 200+ events organized over the past two years. Our events attract people from all over the world. Most attendees are between 18 and 40 years old, with a mix of internationals and Slovenians. Whether you're an expat, digital nomad, Erasmus student, remote worker, entrepreneur, engineer, researcher, freelancer, or simply looking to expand your social circle, you'll fit right in. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 JOIN THE COMMUNITY The pub quiz is just one event. The WhatsApp community is where the real magic happens. That's where people organize dinners, hikes, trips, sports activities, language exchanges, and spontaneous meetups throughout the week. 👉 https://linktr.ee/ljubljanainternational ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📍 HOW TO FIND US Look for the biggest international group in the venue or ask the staff where the Ljubljana International Pub Quiz is happening. No need to be perfectly on time — join whenever you can. Meet people. Challenge yourself. Make Ljubljana your own. See you Tuesday! 🍻

**History** [Chestnut Ridge Metro Park](https://www.metroparks.net/parks-and-trails/chestnut-ridge/) is historically significant because it sits on a 300-million-year-old outcropping of Blackhand sandstone. Geographically recognized as the very first foothill of the Appalachian Mountains, the ridge rises 1,116 feet above sea level. Long before European settlement, the land served as a sacred site for ancient civilizations. The park contains the Old Maid's Orchard Mound, an eight-foot-tall burial mound constructed by the Adena culture between 1000 B.C. and 100 B.C. This ancient landmark has remained largely intact and is now protected on the National Register of Historic Places. The documented modern history of the land began with an official survey conducted by Ebenezer Buckingham in 1801. Original land deeds of sale from this period notably bear the signatures of United States Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In the 1830s, Irish laborers arrived at the ridge to quarry its rich Blackhand sandstone. The blocks they hewed were used to build the crucial locks for the nearby Ohio and Erie Canal. Remnants of this early sandstone quarrying operation can still be spotted by sharp-eyed hikers along the modern trails. Agricultural transformation defined the ridge throughout the mid-to-late 19th century. Settlers discovered that the high elevation created a natural air flow that prevented late-season frost damage to crops. Extensive fruit orchards were planted across the slopes between 1860 and 1880. One notable orchard was established by John Wagner, a Spanish-American War veteran who chose the ridge specifically for its proximity to the bustling Columbus market. The park's current name pays homage to the massive American chestnut trees that once dominated the ridgeline before a devastating ecological blight wiped them out in the early 20th century. The conservation story of the modern 486-acre park began in March 1962. The Metro Parks board announced land acquisition plans to block developers from building a residential housing development called Chestnut Heights. Director-Secretary Walter A. Tucker advocated heavily for the purchase, citing the ridge's immense value as a scenic overlook for central Ohio. The district systematically purchased multiple agricultural parcels over the next two decades. After operating strictly as undeveloped farmland through the 1970s, Chestnut Ridge Metro Park officially opened to the public on December 18, 1988. In recent decades, the park has evolved from a quiet hiking spot into a premier regional destination for outdoor sports. A major turning point occurred in 2010 when the Central Ohio Mountain Biking Organization (COMBO) partnered with the park district to develop new infrastructure. Volunteers worked extensively to construct a single-track mountain bike trail, which officially opened in October 2011. An expert gravity and flow trail featuring advanced jumps was later integrated into the loop in 2016. Today, the park successfully balances its deep ancient, industrial, and agricultural history with active recreation. **Map of the Park** Here is a [map of Chestnut Ridge](https://www.metroparks.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/CHR_map_1980px_2026.jpg). **Summary** For this event, we will hike the Ridge, Meadows, and Homesite Trails, and Law's Lane, which is unmarked on some maps. None of these trails is individually very long, so we will hike a few permutations and loops until we get in 4-5 miles. The hike will be moderately strenuous. **Where We'll Meet** Drive to the rearmost picnic area at the back of the park. There's a latrine here, but there's no water fountain here or anywhere else at Chestnut Ridge. I strongly recommend you bring some water of your own, at least for after the hike. Cell service at the park is spotty, although your GPS will get you there just fine. The map pin I've provided here is exactly where we'll be meeting and should be able to be used directly in Google Maps, although Chestnut Ridge isn't big and you're unlikely to get lost here. **After the Hike** Afterward, we'll head over to [BrewDog DogTap](https://drink.brewdog.com/usa/brewdog-dogtap-columbus) for [drinks](https://usa.brewdog.com/pages/brewdog-lineup) and [food](https://usa.brewdog.com/cdn/shop/files/DogTap_Menu_2025_65e1ff8b-97d4-4f26-80f1-68321d482025.pdf?v=17356939232910340498). They also have an outdoor area that's extremely popular. I've had their burgers and their pizza, and I think they're both very good. I also really like their [Cold Beer](https://usa.brewdog.com/products/cold-beer-2024) (that's its actual name), which is their American light lager. BrewDog's actual address is [96 Gender Rd, Canal Winchester, OH 43110](https://www.google.com/maps/place/96+Gender+Rd,+Canal+Winchester,+OH+43110/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88387c06afa21a85:0x804c611d373d8c54?sa=X&ved=1t:242&ictx=111), and they have a large, free parking lot. We should be there by 5 if you can't make the hike and just want to join us for drinks.

Join us for a full three mile hike this Thursday (6/11) at 6:30 pm at Sharon Woods Metro Park. This scenic hike includes dirt trails (with hills) through the woods, grass trails through the meadows and paved trails along the pond. Please be able to hike at least at a moderate pace so that the group doesn’t have to wait for you often. We don’t want to lose you!

Hi ladies. Let's hike the Edward Thomas, Spring Creek, and a little multi-purpose trail - approximately 4 miles so please wear your shoe of choice. Please bring a water bottle as needed and appropriate shoes. Meet in the Maple Grove Picnic area.

This is a small but pretty park with a 1.7-mile loop. We will walk it 2 times. It goes along a ridge and has moderate elevation changes.

Hi Ladies , Let's Hike Blendon Woods Metro Park . We will meet at the nature center parking lot. Hiking about 4 miles completing the blendon woods loop and the sugarbush trail . Wear appropriate footwear and bring water for hydration .

Meet near the shelter house by the boat ramp off Africa Rd. We'll hike the multipurpose trail, which is mostly grass. 4.1 miles.