Hike Schedule

Mississauga: Old Meadowvale Village Pumpkin Pie Tour

Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Urban Walk
Location (Google Maps): Meet at Kipling Terminal by 9:00 a.m. for a 9:09 a.m. departure on MiWay bus # 11 to Goreway Dr & Derry Rd. We will be transferring to Bus # 42 leaving at 9:48 to Derry Rd at Bellshire Gate arriving at 10:14 to begin the hike, a 1.4 km walk-in. Or if driving your car to the hike, meet the rest of us at 10:35 in the parking lot of the Credit Valley Conservation Authority, 1255 Old Derry Road.

Hike Leader(s): Andrew Proczek Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Leisurely
Terrain: Flat
Distance: 6.5 km car users; 9.3 km transit users

Description

Come and join us for an encore tour of Meadowvale Village with local resident, Terry Wilson, and sample some homemade pumpkin pie in the bargain.  If you’ve missed the previous tours, here is your chance to meet and hear a wonderful storyteller. To begin Terry will guide us through his replica miniature pioneer village, a labor of love created with his late mother Rosemary in a desperate and loving response to what was quickly being lost in an ever-encroaching city. After exploring his miniature Meadowvale Village, Terry will accompany and guide us through the life-size one. If you have an interest in Canadian Painting and the Group of Seven you will find the tour all the more interesting. It is said, if Meadowvale Village hadn’t existed, a collective of artists would have had to invent it. Fred Haines, a colleague and friend of the Group of Seven, is probably the village’s most revered artist who lived there for 26 years until 1930.

Starting from the Credit Valley Conservation Authority parking we will hike a section of the former Radial Railway within the Meadowvale Conservation Area and then back and over the pedestrian bridge spanning the Credit and work our way East to the Old Village. Together, the hike/tour will take approx. 3.5 hours including a 30-minute lunch/pumpkin pie stop in Rosemary’s Garden.  Terry’s latest volume of stories, titled, “Home with Rosemary” 2022, can now be purchased from Amazon.ca.  I will be raffling a few copies of this volume and some premium bakery goods. Please bring loonies or twonies. Each ticket will cost only $1. I will also have a few copies of Terry’s book on hand for a $30 reduced price for any takers. Terry does not charge for his tours, so it is always with hope that you purchase his stories. The tour will be done in two loops and car users will also have the opportunity to drop out early on the second loop shortly after lunch.

Public Washrooms available inside the Conservation Area grounds that we can access before and after our village tour. Please bring minimum 1.5 L of water, a lunch or snacks, and your questions for Terry.

You can watch Terry’s YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv3xliKZtYE

2:00 pm Side Trail Challenge #4 Make-Up Hike - Upper Canada Heritage & Alfred's Trot

Hosting Club: Niagara
Category: Loop
Location (Google Maps): Concession 2 & York Road. Park on York Road just west of Concession 2.

Hike Leader(s): Sam Rutherford Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Medium
Terrain: Moderate
Distance: 8 kms

Description

If you are working towards the side trail badge and missed the hike on Oct. 3 now is your chance to make it up. This hike follows the Upper Canada Heritage Trail to the main trail and includes a loop along Alfred’s Trot side trail and back. This hike will count towards the NBTC Side Trail badge. Required photos include: drystone wall and ruins of lime kilns.

Biodiversity Nature Walk: Insects Preparing for Winter

Hosting Club: Caledon Hills
Category: Nature Walks
Location (Google Maps): 5 Sideroad Parking Lot

Directions: From Airport road head east on 5 Sideroad. Drive for 600 metres. The parking lot is on the left/north side.

Hike Leader(s): Gary Hall Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Leisurely – 3 km/hour or less
Terrain: Moderate – some hills and/or some poor footing
Distance: 4.5 km

Description

Insects Preparing for Winter – should “we” cocoon, hike, fly away, bury ourselves in the sand, or give up? Expect to observe lots of insect action along parts of the main Trail and Hockleycrest Side Trail. 

9:00 Cave Spring Witch Hunt

Hosting Club: Niagara

Location (Google Maps):

Parking lot Quarry Road Beamsville

Hike Leader(s): Bill Russell Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Leisurely
Terrain: Moderate
Distance: 6k

Description

Discover the history of the 19th Century Quarry Pioneers and the Cave Spring Witch.

9:00 International Hike

Hosting Club: Niagara
Category: Loop
Location (Google Maps): Park in the Dufferin Islands, south of the Falls, on the Niagara Parkway (near the bottom of Burning Springs Hill). Paid parking. Niagara Parks Parking passes suggested.

Hike Leader(s): Margaret Northfield Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Medium
Terrain: Moderate
Distance: 15km

Description

See Niagara Falls from several angles on this trek around both sides of the border.

Bring your passport/Nexus card as well as $1 to walk across the Rainbow Bridge.   You may have to present your vaccination status.

Urban Walk: 16 Mile Creek, Oakville

Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Urban Walk
Location (Google Maps): Starts and ends at Oakville GO Station

Hike Leader(s): Ginny Giraudi, Wayne Crockett Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Moderate
Terrain: Other (Refer to Description)
Distance: 15 km

Description

If you are planning to travel by GO train to Oakville please meet Wayne Crockett by the information desk with the clock over it in Union Station in the Great Hall (off Front Street). You will be taking the 8:44 am  westbound train, so please arrive 15 minutes prior to that.  Please use the bathroom while on the GO train as there is little time for it at the Oakville GO station. You can also drive to the Oakville Station and meet us there. Parking is free on the weekends.

We will all meet at 9:25 am at the Oakville Transit Bus Platform 27 at the Oakville GO Station (click here for station diagram.) From here we will board Bus 13 at 9:40 am and take a short bus ride to the start point of our hike. Oakville Transit buses accept Presto, and if you have paid for the GO train, the fare for the Oakville bus will register as zero. We will walk a 15 km looping trail through the 16-Mile Creek ravine (click here for route map), stopping at the halfway point for lunch (port-a-potties only; bring hand sanitizer and tp) and return to the Oakville GO Station. The trail is stone dust gravel or asphalt and mostly flat except for two steep declines and two long climbs. There is one long set of stairs to descend. The after-hike pub stop is at the Beertown Public House (click here for menu) near the Oakville GO Station.

#2/3 Toronto Bruce Trail Club 60th Anniversary Badge Hike - 22km

Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Car Hike
Location (Google Maps): Limehouse Conservation Area – west of km20.4 at the baseball diamond. Access from the Fifth Line, just southeast of the village of Limehouse.

Hike Leader(s): Alina Lin

Pace: Moderate
Terrain: Challenging, Hilly, Rocky, Variable
Distance: 22km

Description

Founded in 1962, Toronto Bruce Trail Club is 60 years young ! To celebrate its birth year and the first blaze painted on the Bruce Trail, the Club has launched the 60th Anniversary badge. We are going to do a series of three hikes for a total of 60+ km to earn this badge.  If you are a badge hunter, or simply just want to enjoy a long hike along  the Niagara Escarpment during this golden season, join us!

Depart 9:30 am. Please arrive a bit early to give yourself enough time to get ready.  Prepare to walk for around 7 hours with only a 15-minute lunch break. Hiking poles are highly recommended.

Terrain: hilly, rocky, variable and challenging
Difficulty – intermediate to advanced
Pace – 4km/hour
Bring lunch and at least 1.5L water
No dropouts
No dogs
Hiking boots