Scotsdale Farm. The magical colours of autumn on the trails
Scotsdale Farm is one of the most beautiful spots in Halton Hills and favourite spot for photographers and filmmakers. 531 acres of rolling hills, woodlands ...
Trails & Nature
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Georgetown and Barber Mill Dynamo. The first long-distance transmission of hydro power in North America
Did you know that the Barber Mill Dynamo in Georgetown, built in 1888, was the first electrical generating plant in North America use for long ... -
Silver Creek. Rocks, cliffs, pond, sunny forests, lookouts spots
Silver Creek’s lookout spots offer spectacular views of the escarpment especially in the fall when all the leaves change colours. Silver Creek Conservation Area has ... -
The Bruce Trails is marked for hikers. What the blue and white blazes marks mean.
Philip Gosling, one of the four “founders” of the Bruce Trail, marked the first blazes marks in July 1962. The use of markers in the ... -
Churchill 414m. The highest peak of Halton Hills
Ontario is a plain, endless sky and endless plain, highlighted most notably by gullies, ravines and unassuming elevations, the most famous of which is the ... -
Cheltenham Badlands. Red landscape 400 million years old
This distinctive and seemingly dead landscape in Caledon badlands was formed at the bottom of an ancient sea more than 400 million years ago. Caledon ... -
Georgetown’s Old Seed House Garden and Dominion Seed House
The Old Seed House Garden is a 1.8 acre civic garden honouring the legacy of the Dominion Seed House in Georgetown, Ontario. A haven for ... -
Limehouse trails, rock cracks at the site of the historic limestone kilns
The beautiful limestone kilns at the Limehouse Conservation Area make this trail very special. Less than 5 kilometres of trail might refrain some hikers from ... -
Scotsdale Farm frozen landscape
Frozen in time and cold Canadian winter the Scotsdale Farm is glowing in the beauty of ice and snow. Enter from Trafalgar Road and begin ... -
Rockwood limestone cliffs, caves and glacial potholes
Towering limestone cliffs, caves and glacial potholes, including one of the world’s largest, are a few of the natural wonders at Rockwood. You can view ... -
Scotsdale Farm, home of old-growth forest and Ontario’s oldest trees
Scottsdale Farm is situated north of Georgetown, on Trafalgar Road. This 531 acre heritage property is a popular hiking spot where you can see some ... -
The original name of the Credit river was as Missinnihe, the trusting creek
Have you ever thought about where did Credit River get its name? The name comes from the time when the Mississauga First Nations people that ... -
Devastating ice storm in Georgetown, Ontario, 2013
Freezing rain begun to fall on Halton Hils on December 20, 2013. Over 30mm of ice covered the trees and hydro lines. Much of the ... -
Hungry Hollow Trail in Georgetown
Hungry Hollow trail runs along the Silver Creek branch of the Credit River, nestled in a valley to the south of Georgetown. It is known ...