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Albion Hills Conservation Area 8

Ball’s Falls Conservation Area 9Cataract Trail 10Twenty Mile Creek Valley Trail 10Bruce Trail Side Trail 11

Cootes Paradise, Royal Botanical Gardens 11Captain Cootes, Marshwalk,

Macdonell, Pinetum Trails 12Hopkins Trail, North Shore 12Arnotts Walk and Chegwin Trails,

South Shore 12Ravine Road and Calebs

Walk, South Shore 13Ginger Valley Trail, South Shore 13Sassafras Point Trail, South Shore 13

Crawford Lake Conservation Area and Iroquoian Village 13Crawford Lake Trail 14Woodland Trail 14Pine Ridge Trail 14Escarpment Trail 15Nassagaweya Trail 15Snowshoe Trail 15Bruce Trail 15

Darlington Provincial Park 15Burk Trail 18McLaughlin Bay Trail 18Robinson Creek Trail 18Waterfront Trail 18

Dufferin Islands, Niagara Falls 18

Dundas Valley and Tiffany Falls Conservation Areas 19

Durham Regional Forest 24

Ganaraska Forest 25

Glen Haffy Conservation Area 26

Humber Valley Trail 27

McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve and Second Marsh Wildlife Area 28The McLaughlin Bay Second

Marsh Shoreline Trail 28McLaughlin Bay Loop 29Dogwood Trail 29

Mountsberg Conservation Area 29Wildlife Walkway 30Nature Trivia Trail 30Sugar Bush Trail 30Lakeshore Lookout Trail 30Pioneer Creek Trail 30

Niagara Glen 31Cliffside Path 32Eddy Path 32Woodland Path 32Terrace Path 32Trillium Path 32Cobblestone Path 32River Path 33

Niagara River Recreation Trail 33

Rouge Trail 34

St. Catharines Trail System 35Port Dalhousie Harbour

Walkway Waterfront Trail 36Merritt Trail 36Green Ribbon Trail 37Participark Trail 37Welland Canals Parkway Trail 37

Seaton Hiking Trail 37

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How to Use This Guide Within each chapter, hiking loca-tions are placed in alphabetical order. In each location, trails appear in recommended order. The only exception to this is for trails that begin in the middle or at the end of another trail. In those cases, the trails are listed in the order they are encountered.

The description of each trail includes everything needed to plan a trip, including interesting features, trailheads, services and facilities in the area and contact information for the organization or club in charge of trail main-tenance. When dogs are permitted on a trail, this is mentioned. Most parks allow dogs on trails as long as they are kept on a short leash.

The length of the trail, in kilo-metres and miles, is followed by either the word linear or loop to indicate how a hiker will travel.

The estimated time for comple-tion is extremely generous and often includes time for lunch and sightseeing. It is often followed by return to indicate that the hiker is completing a loop and expected to return to the trail-head in the time specified, or each way when a hiker will likely double back along the same trail, or begin another trail rather than returning to the trailhead.

We hope that, with this guide-book, you’ll have a mean-ingful personal journey hiking through the natural splendour of Ontario.

Happy trails!

Trail Rating Information

M Easy trails can be completed by just about anybody, including a four-year-old child or a parent wearing a child carrier.

MM Moderate trails have uneven, rocky or root-covered pathways or include sections that might be difficult for children, backpackers or someone with a mild knee injury, for example.

MMM Difficult trails attract experienced hikers, who don’t mind rocky climbs and uneven or wet paths. They often include dangerous sections.

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Acknowledgements:Author: Thanks so much for all of the outdoors enthusiasts who’ve shared Ontario’s natural wonders with me over the last several years. In particular, I’d like to thank the people who answer the phone and greet visitors at parks and conservation areas. These unsung heroes share their passion for a place with everyone who visits and many of them helped me discover highlights I might have overlooked. Thanks also to the staff at great local bookstores, who really care about their customers, including Terry Needham from Novack’s and Nan-cy Frater at Booklore. Thanks also to three exceptional high school teachers: John Nephew for introducing me to glaciers, Hal Babcock for helping me ap-preciate history and the late Ina Healey, for inspiring my love of words. Thanks also to mom, dad, Lorrey, Kimm, Keelan, Chloe, Manny, Pedro, Paul and Arial for exploring the trails with me.Publisher: Thank you to Lori Waldbrook of Ontario Parks, Jeff Truscott and Guy Thériault of Parks Canada and Suzanne McFarlane of the Morris Island Conservation Area for their help in updating this guide’s maps. We acknowled-ge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Pu-blishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for ur publishing activities. We would also like to thank the Government of Québec – Tax credit for book publishing – Administered by SODEC.

Hiking in Greater Toronto and the Niagara Peninsula, ISBN ���-2-����5-�22-2 (PDF version), is a chapter taken from Ulysses guide Hiking in Ontario, ISBN ���-2-�����-�2�-� (printed version), published and legally deposited in 2010.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.

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Author: Tracey ArialEditor: Pierre LedouxCopy Editors: Pierre Daveluy, Matthew McLauchlinComputer Graphics: Pascal Biet, Marie-France Denis, Philippe ThomasEditing Assistance: Annie Gilbert

This work was produced under the direction of Olivier Gougeon.

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