Metea County Park

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Website: allencountyparks.org/parks/metea
Phone: (260)449-3777

Metea County Park is a 250 acre park in northcentral Allen County near Leo-Cedarville, containing the 120 acre Meno-aki State Nature Preserve. The north and south areas of the park are separated by Cedar Creek, a state designated scenic river.

Metea County Park was named for the great Potawatomi leader whose village on the north bank of Cedar Creek near its mouth was close to the boundary of the current park. Metea's village was called Muskwawsepeotan, which means "town on the old red wood creek". The village, the southeasternmost Potawatomi village in Indiana, was settled sometime after 1795, when the Potawatomi tribe first moved into northeastern Indiana from the area of the St. Joseph River of Lake Michigan near modern South Bend.

Metea County Park includes the Gloria Goeglein Nature Center with classrooms and conference room available for rental, education offices, gift shop, exhibits, indoor bird watching area, and restrooms, five miles of walking trails, 1.5 acre lake with swimming beach, fishing, playfield, picnic shelter, and cross country skiing in the winter with four inches of snow or more.