- HikeType Car Hike
- HikeIcon https://hikes.brucetrail.org/wp-content/uploads/formidable/7/marker_car-hikes.png
- PaceTypes Moderate
- TerrainTypes Variable
- PaidOuting No
Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Car Hike
Location (Google Maps): Greenwood Conservation North Entrance, 5th Concession Rd, Pickering, ON. From Toronto, take Don Valley hwy 404 northbound and get on 401 hwy eastbound towards Pickering. Take exit 399 to hwy 1 Brock Road and head northbound. Take a right at 5th Concession road. If there is no parking in the parking lot, park on the north side of the street.
Hike Leader(s): KJ Chong; Jacqueline Van Dyke Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)
Pace: Moderate
Terrain: Variable
Distance: 11 km (EDIT: distance may be lower eg. 8 km depending on conditions)
Description
An educational hike into Greenwood Conservation Area, a beautiful area with forests, creeks and a look outpoint. This hike will have multiple stops to share information about environmental protection, wildlife in the area and interesting plants and invasive species. We will also visit a barn ruins and see farm remnants along the way. It is expected to be icy but generally gentle slopes. There will be two times in which we cross over some (likely frozen) water with wooden logs and one area in which there will be a rope along a few feet of slope. Please note one section will be hiking around an off leash dog park to reach a look out point.
Mandatory equipment: icers – if you do not have at trail head, you will be turned away.
Please leave your dogs at home.
Drop out at around 8 km.