The Bruce Trail in Ontario Canada runs from Niagara Falls to Tobermory. It is one of the great hiking trails in North America. This two day workshop will focus on a small section of the trail located just north east of Orangeville Ontario and the nearby Mono Cliffs Provincial Park.

https://headwaters.ca/trip-planning/headwaters-trails/hockley-valley-provincial-natural-preserve/

This 378 hectare Reserve has unique habitat and landform characteristics – including of forested moraines, open meadows with swamp, bottomland and forest on the floor of the valley and beautiful views from the Niagara Escarpment.

https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/monocliffs

Mono Cliffs Provincial Park

Several Trails meander through this 750-hectare natural environment park on the Niagara Escarpment, including a 6-kilometre section of the Bruce Trail.  The carriage Trail is short and has a wooden staircase that lets you climb to a cliff-top viewing platform.  It’s the main access point to four of the park’s seven trails.

Walk through a canyon on the Spillway Trail or past 30-metre cliffs on the Cliff Top Trail.  Look for the differences in the trees, shrubs and wild plants through the park.  These are caused by climatic variations that can occur in a small area.  In the canyon’s rock crevices there still may be snow and ice in July.  Some of the plants are rare and very sensitive.

Warm air currents from the cliffs create thermals that attract Ontario’s native turkey vultures.  These wonderful flyers ride the air to circle and watch as you hike.  Their large, upswept wings, black bodies with light colours underneath and small heads separate them from other soaring birds.  The trails here are moderate with natural rocks that can be slippery when wet.