The islands on the Ohio River hold significant natural heritage and local history. And some are publicly accessible, offering recreational opportunities for boaters, paddlers and anglers.

WILLIAMSTOWN — Park Ranger Michael Schramm led his weekly bird walk on Saturday at the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge in Williamstown. Schramm noted that the winter walks usually ...

The refuge encompasses 22 islands spread over 362 miles of the Ohio River through West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, including Buckley, Middle, Muskingum and Neale islands in the Mid-Ohio ...

The 85-acre riverine island, named for its distance from the Falls of the Ohio, was dedicated as a nature preserve in 1979, and “was protected so that it would be allowed to return to its ...

NEW RICHMOND, Ohio — A new hot spot along the Ohio River is making a splash among local boaters. A sand bar that formed as result of dredging in the Ohio River has become a popular destination ...

The winter of 1917-1918 was one of the worst on record when the Ohio River froze along its entire length. The ice gorge crushed and sank the Princess, one of the passenger steamboats to Coney Island.