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The FOLH Board will meet on Wednesday, 10 March 2010 at 5:30pm at the Park Office. All are welcome. Check out the meeting minutes of the last meeting.

You are invited to attend the 6th Annual Spring Symposium on Saturday, 10 April 2010 at the Maumee Bay Lodge and Conference Center, featuring the First Lady of Ohio, Frances Strickland.

There was an Open House on Monday, December 21 at 7pm at the Vinton County Community Building, in McArthur, OH. ODNR was seeking public input on the Lake Hope Lodge design.

Welcome to the new web site for the Friends of Lake Hope. Our mission is to foster a partnership between the general public and Lake Hope State Park to enhance, preserve, protect, and promote Lake Hope State Park and adjacent areas for present and future generations.

Of course, we hope that you'll come an enjoy Lake Hope State Park. But we also hope that you'll come an help us. Wow, how many times can I say hope in one sentence.

In this newsletter:

• Fall events
• Coming events
• Nature Center Addition
• New website, blog and Facebook
• Supporting FOLH
• Board Meeting Highlights
• New 2010 FOLH Board
• Dining Lodge Update
• Dedicated Funding
• Stationary Archery Range

Visit the Holiday Trail of Lights at Lake Hope State Park with over 100,000 lights and featuring animated displays, decorated trees, landscape lighting and holiday music along a quarter-mile trail near the park’s nature center . . . Check out the rest of Dave Sapienza's latest blog post.

Check out the new photo gallery. Pictures from last year's Fall Hike and the Trail of Lights have been posted, as well as pictures from the Lake Hope Lodge fire in 2006.

More pictures will be posted soon. So, come back often.