The Bruce Trail!
When you are looking for outdoor family fun, look no further than the Bruce Trail. The Niagara Escarpment is a tremendous natural treasure in southern Ontario and the Bruce Trail is a great way to explore it with your family. Time to put down your cellphones, iPads and DS3s and get out and enjoy all the natural treats the Bruce Trail has to offer.
Their website http://brucetrail.org/ is very informative and will help get you started. You can find interactive maps of the trails, places to see, upcoming events, photo contests, and games for the kids. The Bruce Trail has so many great little spots to explore, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some of our favorite Bruce Trail destinations for families.
Caves & Crevices
•Mount Nemo Conservation Area
•Keyhole Side Trail (Nottawasaga Bluffs Conservation Area)
•Metcalfe Crevice Side Trail (Duncan Escarpment Nature Reserve formerly known as Duncan Crevice Caves)
•Bruce’s Caves (Bruce’s Caves Conservation Area)
Lime Kilns
•Limehouse Conservation Area
•Hoffman Ring Kilns (Forks of the Credit Provincial Park)
Lookouts
•Mount Nemo Conservation Area
•Dufferin Quarry Bridge
•Kimberly Rock (Old Baldy)
•Lion’s Head Provincial Nature Reserve
•Cape Chin
•Dyers Bay
Waters Edge
•Colpoys Bay (Spiral staircase to beachfront)
•Hope Bay
•Rush Cove
Hills
•Falling Waters Trail (Hoggs Falls, Eugenia Falls, Wodehouse Karst)
Waterfalls
•Rockway Falls
•Decew Falls (Morningstar Mill)
•Ball’s Falls Conservation Area
•Webster’s Falls – Spencer’s Gorge Wilderness Area
•Inglis Falls
•Falling Waters (Hoggs Falls, Eugenia Falls, Wodehouse Karst)
Old Growth Forests
•Skinner’s Bluff
Other Cool Stuff
•Devil’s Monument (Sea Stack / Flower Pot)
•Lion’s Head (Pot holes)
•Battlefield Park
•Hermitage (Dundas Valley Conservation Area)
Stroller Friendly
•Crawford Lake Conservation Area
Snow Shoeing & Cross Country Skiing Hot Spots
•Woodend Conservation Area
•Shorthills Provincial Park
•Beamer Memorial Conservation Area
•Royal Botanical Gardens
•Dundas Valley Conservation Area
•Crawford Lake Conservation Area
•Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area
•Hilton Falls Conservation Area
•Mono Cliffs Provincial Park
•Spirit Rock Conservation Area
Special thanks goes out to Lisa Church Visser for suggesting the Bruce Trail be added as one of the best things to do in Burlington and surrounding area. If you have an event, favourite restaurant or place you enjoy that you would like to share with our readers, please let me know and I will be happy to add it to one of the 365 Things to do in Burlington! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call Sean Kavanagh @ 905-220-9198.