This week I am featuring some of the Huron County’s unadvertised trails.  These include the Front Road trail just East of Clinton, the John Goldie Reserve, East of Benmilller Line, The Rogers Tract trail East of Hoover Line, and the Nature Conservancy Blacker property trails NE of Huron road aboutmore…

This week I am featuring the Falls Reserve Conservation Area.  On Saturday November 18th nine hikers enjoyed the Maitland trails that go through this property.  The Maitland Trail Association makes a donation to the Falls Reserve, and in return members can hike on (and only on) the Maitland trails inmore…

This week I am featuring the Wawanosh Valley Conservation Area. If you have not been there lately,  you will notice a very big change. The Visitor’s centre in the old barn has been completely removed, all that remains is some of the stone from the foundation in a pile thatmore…

On Friday November 3rd I joined three other hikers to hike the G2G from Clyde Line to Blyth.  The weather was great, and we were glad to have the wind mostly behind us.  There were lots of apple trees, with many apples still on the trees.  There were also severalmore…

First a reminder – many trails are closed for Deer gun hunting.  (Nov 6-12, and Dec 4th -10th). Ones that remain open include the Maitland Woods, Millennium trail, Sifto loop, Naftel’s Creek Conservation area, Clinton Conservation area, G2G/GART, the MacNaughton-Morrison , Morrison Dam, Bannockburn Conservation area, Varna  and the Fallsmore…

One of the best loved Huron County landowners Murray Lobb died recently, and will be greatly missed by the hiking community.  Not only did Murray allow the public to hike on his property but he also spent numerous hours maintaining the trails. He, usually with the help of his sonmore…

Another fifty trees have been planted on the GART/G2G just west of Lucknow Line.  This effort is thanks to funding by the Maitland Trail Association and Huron Clean Water Project.  The tree planters on this latest effort were Cam Whiting, Brian McCulloch, John Beaver, Cathy  and Phil Paquette, Roger Goddard,more…

There was quite a sudden change in weather from warmth and sunshine to cold and wet.  On October 5th our flowers were full of bees, Eastern bumble Bees and Western Honey Bees, I thought it strange how the East and west met in our garden.  There was also a latemore…