Wyman Woods

With 14 acres, Wyman Woods is the largest park in the Grandview Heights park system. It was originally dedicated in 1954. Today, the park includes a multi-use field, sand volleyball court, playground, sledding hill, and walking paths around the park and through a small forested hill. A StoryWalk with reading stations was installed in 2020. Wyman Woods Shelter can be reserved and seats 144 people comfortably.  

Sketch of the original Shelter House from the 1954 Dedication Program; the park was called Grandview Woods at the time. The original shelter house was renovated extensively in 2010.   

Children climb onto the 12-foot tall rock at Wyman Woods in 1968. The rock and the material that comprises the geology of Wyman Woods hills are the result of glacial activity that brought deposits from Canada to the area nearly 20,000 years ago during an ice age.     

Boy Scouts use cardboard for summer sledding down Wyman Woods sledding hill in July 1969.  

Former Grandview Heights Mayor Joseph Wyman prepares to take a run down Wyman Woods sledding hill, aided by City Secretary Kitty Bangham. The Grandview Heights Municipal Building is in the background.  

A gently-sloping alluvial fan at the mouth of a ravine provided the site for Wyman Woods.  

Park's namesake Joseph Wyman in 1970 with former U.S. Senator and astronaut John Glenn (1921-2016) who lived in Grandview Heights for a time.