School Bus Hike: Rama Powwow and the Ganaraska Trail

Trip Information
Departure Time: 08:00
Return to City Time: 19:00
Departure Point: York Mills Bus Pickup

Registration Required:

Registration Costs
Members - $30.00
Child Members - $15.00
Non-Members - $37.00
Child Non-Members - $19.00

Long Distance Fees apply
A late return is anticipated
Registration opens on 2025-08-10 at 07:00 PM

Please Note: Refunds are not allowed for this hike

Optional Items

Hosting Club: Toronto
Category: Bus Hike
Location (Google Maps): Orillia

Hike Leader(s): Nijole Mockevicius, George Lennon Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

Pace: Leisurely (2-3 km/hr)
Terrain: Level 1 (Easy - mostly on flat, well maintained trails with hard-packed surface)
Distance: 8.5 km

Description

Rama PowWow is one of the biggest and best in Ontario. We have planned this hike to take in the Grand Entry at 1 pm when all the contestants will be dressed and dancing in their finest. Our morning hike takes place in the Scout Valley Park along part of the Ganaraska Trail. We will provide a shorter hike of 3 km for naturalists and photographers to observe the flowers and vegetation and birdlife in its woodlands of pine and hardwood with scattered wetlands. There is an option as well for a longer hike of 5.5 km. After a short noon-hour bus ride to the nearby Rama Reserve, we will have a couple of hours to watch the festivities and shop in the market stalls. We will then return to Orillia to begin our hiking again at the site of the remains of 5000-year-old Mnjikaning fish weirs. A late-afternoon 3 km hike along the Ganaraska Trail will take us past the Gordon Lightfoot sculpture park to a stop for ice cream before we head back to Toronto.