the city parks and recreation department is responsible for 275 acres of parkland including 9 major parks. established in 1948 the first franklin county metro park opened in reynoldsburg, blacklick woods and blacklick woods golf course; a 643-acre park with golf, several multi purpose trails, one of the oldest beech-maple forest in central ohio, a winter sledding hill, a nature center and the walter a. tucker state nature preserve located inside blacklick woods.