Johnstown to Alexandria. (Jersey Road to Mounts Road, 6 miles)
This stretch is mostly farm fields in uplands north of Raccoon Creek, with occasional small woodlots. The largest of these sits between Concord Road and Windy Hollow Road and can be worth checking for forest birds, including Barred Owls, Acadian Flycatchers, and Scarlet Tanagers. There is a nearby Great Blue Heron rookery along Raccoon Creek near OH-310, so seeing flyover herons is not unusual here in Spring.

The T.J. Evans trail is one of Ohio’s first rail trails and features great scenery and history from Newark to Johnstown in Licking County.

Restroom facilities are located at the Johnstown parking lot, Wildwood Park in Granville, and Flory Park in Newark.