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 Click here to contact Hike Leader(s)

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

Description

Not a big fan of dry turkey or your in-laws? Tell them you can't attend, you have booked a hike for Thanksgiving Sunday and it is too late to cancel!

This hike explores the Lion's Valley ravine created by the 16-Mile Creek in Oakville. The hike starts and ends at the Oakville GO Station.

If you are planning to travel by GO train to Oakville from Union Station, you will be taking the 8:44 am  westbound train. Please use the bathroom while on the GO train as there is little time for it at the Oakville GO station.

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.

You can also drive to the Oakville Station and meet us there. Parking is free on the weekends. You may also choose to park in a parking lot located at the intersection of McCraney St. W. and Old Upper Middle Road approximately 1 km from where we enter the trail system. Please park by 9:30 am and walk to the trail entry to meet us there by 9:50 am.