- HikeType Urban Walk
- HikeIcon https://hikes.brucetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/7/marker_urban-walks.png
- PaceTypes Moderate
- TerrainTypes Other (Refer to Description)
- PaidOuting No
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.