21 May, 2007
Hilton Falls
Posted by: Katie Kish In: Environment| Out Doors| Samie| Summer| You Rock, Rock
Samie and I took a trip down to Hilton Falls on Sunday. The area is part of Conservation Halton a community and area that is based on environmental agency. This helps protect and restore the Halton area of the Escarpment. The forest that we were in is currently the largest natural forest in all of Ontario, which was very cool.
More specifically, the people who run the Halton Conservation area are devoted to having a healty watershed, which reaches out to strong, clean and natural streams forests and green space.
Here is a map of the area that we were in:
We got a few pictures, but they’re all on my camera…. and I didn’t bring my camera cord here to Sam’s to get the pictures off of it, so you’ll have to wait until I get home for those pictures to be up. Here is a picture that someone else took of the actual waterfall…
It wasn’t all that big, but the walk there and back was so quiet and beautiful that it was worth the trip just for the trails. It really made me miss BC. The Niagara Escarpment is pretty much the closest thing we have out this way to mountains and BC like scenery.
It is the logest escarpment in the US and Canada running for New York up to through Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois. It was formed by unequal erosion in the Silurian age and is mostly dolostone, shale and granite. The Bruce Trial runs along the escarpment from the Niagara Peninsual up to the Bruce Beninsula up in Tobermory… something I would most definitely like to hike one day. I had a geography teacher back in grade 11 who had hiked it, he said it was really amazing and makes you appreciate the geography, topography and landscape of Ontario a lot more… Maybe some day.
