Beautiful place with nearly every walking path you could want. Surprisingly quiet and serene despite being smack dab in the middle of campus. Iconic view from the High Street end down to the library, even prettier at night. Current construction is making it ugly though.

The Oval is one of my favorite places on campus. I love seeing buckeyes playing, chatting with friends, or rushing to the Thompson library or other buildings.

Beautiful green space, well organized and taken care of...

A signature location on the campus of The Ohio State University. The long walk and historic trees and buildings of campus are a great spot to relax or stroll. Lots of pokestops for people who play pokemon go.

Look how pretty it is on campus.

Fun fact: the road that marks the east border of the oval wasn’t there when the classroom buildings along the south side were built. City planned it so it cut in between the two eastern buildings and shortened the oval. You can see the effects to this day. The oddly curved sidewalk on the other side of the street used to be a continuation of the walkway in front of the other buildings, and the infamous “staircase to nowhere” used to be the front/oval facing entrance of the building.

A lovely green space through the center of campus. It receives fairly regular use by the student population during warmer weather. Nice place to see people just enjoying being outside and socializing. I wish there were designated bike paths through the area to promote use of bikes on campus while not forcing bikes to go around such a large green space.

I stop here at night to think about life.. or before work to start my morning right. it's very quiet and the lights reflecting on the water is relaxing to look at when it's dark. Sometimes iI get stressed out and this is a go to place set right on the river. Also if you enjoy walking, jogging or stretching, this is a great spot.

Simply stunning

Great place to walk, get some fresh air, contemplate life’s dilemmas, and become inspired… I used to play on the oval as a little kid growing up in the Clintonville area, accompanying my older siblings while they attended school here…To read: "I also remember seeing the Ohio National Guard tanks rolling down High Street, and the Ohio State Patrol and Ohio National Guard confronting students protesting expansion of the war in Southeast Asia in the Spring of 1970 Sometimes I walk these paths just to ponder and reminisce those nostalgic memories and wonder what could have been…

The OSU Faculty Club is a great restaurant with wonderful live music. The Rambler's were playing New Orleans jazz! 🎺

Great spot on OSU's campus. Plenty of space. My dog loves it too!

Very peaceful and calm. Marked O for individual spaces.

Park in the middle of Ohio state campus. Open space… um trees five of them given a plaque and called the give brothers. Ok here’s the story about that. A long time ago someone planted give trees gave them a plaque on a rock and called them the “five brothers”… fascinating. There is some great architecture and the little museum in the geology building is worth a quick stop in.

The oval is a large park space in the middle of Ohio State. It's essentially just a flat, grassy area with trees around. It's not useful if you want a playground or anything, but for sports, activities, events, or anything like that it's really nice.

Graduated in 1966. Really different place except for the oval. We’d walk across the oval back to dorms after class.

Great park

Watch for the turn *One way*

Nice relaxing park great water views.

quiet and cozy place.

Great place for a walk and enjoy the river views.

Nice city park along river.

A beautiful place to go for a walk any time of the day.

Great place to hang n enjoy nature

Cool place to walk around!

It's a very beautiful scenic park, perfect for run, walks, or having picnics

Love to visit

Great place to picnic, fish, walk or just relax.

Delicious 😊

I walk here almost every weekend. When I lived closer I walked almost daily.

Nice disc golf course

Experience with nature

Nice disc golf course

The waterfall is not as beautiful as the pictures show.

Good place to get your mind right

It was beautiful and very quiet.

Standard university quad, except that this one is an oval. Many major buildings including the library are around this area. Peaceful during the evenings.

Very nice place to lay down and work or read on a sunny day.

Whenever I go pee there, people start yelling and screaming saying I am 'indecent' and 'disgusting'. Terrible Bathroom

Relaxing and Beutiful

Nice open space to walk or jog through, plenty of shade or sunny areas for studying or relaxing.

Nice place. Worth to take a look.

Great campus for walking, reading, relaxing and spending time together

I've been to circles and squares before but this strange oblong circle is a feat of engineering genius. Who else could build this strange stretched circle? Is it a large 0 or an O? It is a question that will inspire people of all ages. Also this is a decent place to play PokeMon Go and you can hide in the shade of the trees.

Nice trails and views

Always relaxing. Very nice in the Fall

Quite a yummy place if i do say do my self

Its a beautiful park, dont think be there

Good place for gathering with family and friends. Pet friendly Hard to find the restrooms and bbq grills.

It's beautiful out here

Loved going here as a kid, i used to think it was a real waterfall. It’s a great place to go for walking, running, jogging and biking with a nice view and some fresh air

Nice place to walk and beautiful for photos!

Beautiful and scenic.

Nice walk along the river on a road, next to McMansions that are too close together. Lots of locals walking their dogs. No rowing because of coronavirus.

Absolutely beautiful during the fall. Tons of trees, plenty of parts by the river where you can get right up to the water and skip rocks or even go fish. Wonderful experience

Go Bucks!

One of Ohio State's iconic places on campus

Cooolest library ive seen

Come see the involvement fair!

Beautiful and quintessential Ohio State.

Doesnt not need to exist, would be better if it was a parking garage due to lack of parking

Now that the construction is cleared, the oval is completely open again and has all the green space available to use. It's such a great, open area and you can even bring your dogs!

This is the 35th year since I visited this place for the first time as a grad student. Time flies!

The pokestops here at great, pokemon isn't super diverse but still great

Buckeye trees

Easily the prettiest lawn in any of the universities.

Very nice facility for a small group of 50 or less.

Great place to smoke on campus!

Great place to be while on the OSU campus...

Awesome

iconic

Classic college campus.

Nice place especially during summer

Oval

What is there to say? It's the oval.

Fabulous landscape!

There are plenty of good trails to hike along, though most of them are not "official"--just paths cut through undergrowth near the river by many visitors. There are great views of the river, with lots of wildlife, especially birds. In the fall, the colors on the trees here are fantastic. More than enough parking, unless you visit on a nice weekend in the fall. Also in the fall, on weekends, some of the local high schools have crew races, and that can congest the area.

Great scenery

Lovely calm views of the river

Beautiful place!

(Translated by Google) Excellent place to be in family (Original) Excelente lugar para estar en familia

Need a place too enjoy a lovely fall day? Then you'll love taking a nice walk here, Spring, Summer or Fall.

It was beautiful. Mu families first time there. Being from NY City its amazing to see people relax ans see so many trees. Great for the kids. Definitely a get out of the city for a while kind of place. Dam was great to see. My kids skip rocks. We want to go back and explore more next time we go.

Went for some paddle boarding in the no wake zone only. Cloudy and cool evening so not much water traffic. Nice wide river. Enjoyed watching OSU skullers practice. Very busy on sunny warm weekends. Not fun for paddle board then.

Lovely place to walk along the river. Many people walk there. It is very safe.

I live 8 minutes away from this place and I just love coming here to walk, jog, relax, or just simply getting some fresh air all the time. It is so beautiful here. I just love everything about it. ツ😍

A refreshing local getaway. The sight and sound of the waterfall of the reservoir is tranquil and inspiring.

Beautiful campus

Great place to fish and walk, real community feeling here. Safe and welcoming. Only porta-potties if you need to use the restroom and there are multiple picnic areas. You can drive all the way through from the south to the north end but a lot of people walk so be careful if you do and drive slowly. Also there is a ton of wildlife here. Please be mindful and don't move the snails, or any wildlife out of their natural habitat. You can usually watch the rowing teams in the morning which is really cool too. Enjoy your time here!

Nice to walk along the river and see the Griggs dam. The river banks across the way look taller than expected for Columbus. Areas by the disc golf course are also very scenic. Start by the Fishinger road bridge, walk to the disc golf lot and back and you have a decent length walk.

What can i really say about it? its a oval.

It's mighty grassy and has a statue of an old dude

Everyone welcome

Great place to set up a hammock and chill! If you love puppies - this is where it's at

Very nice place to spend a quiet day.

Go Bucks

A beautiful open area within the large University