Many marriages take place at Side Cut Park. There is an especially beautiful site on a high rise overlooking the Maumee River that is perfect for festive occasions. Wedding receptions are held in the shelter house and guests throw bird seed instead of rice.

The Side Cut Park area has long been popular to Prehistoric cultures who used the area for hunting and fishing for thousands of years. In 1794 The Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought between the troops of General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and Native Americans under the leadership of Chief Little Turtle. The battle got its name because it took place in a woodland where the trees had been blown down in a storm. They fought fiercely among those fallen trees, hense the name, fallen timbers. After the battle, a treaty signing took place in Greenville, Ohio. Native Americans ceded approximately three-fourths of their Ohio lands to the US Government. A monument to the Battle of Fallen Timbers stands on Fallen Timbers Lane, located along Highway 24 at the Jerome Road Exit, West of Maumee, Ohio.

Another important part of the history of Side Cut Park are the remains of the Side Cut Canal which consisted of six limestone canal locks dating back to 1843. These locks connected the Miami and Erie Canal with the City of Maumee. Three of those locks still stand and can be seen by following the Canal Locks Trail.

The Audubon Islands were purchased in 1988, east of the main park along the Maumee River. The islands offer prime nesting and wildlife habitat that will be managed to provide many different habitats including meadows and tallgrass prairie, scrub growth, and mature floodplain woodland. Naturalist-led programs with boat transportation are occasionally scheduled for Ewing Island.*

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