Spencer Gorge Conservation Area

Spencer Gorge Conservation Area is a protected section of the Niagara Escarpment in Dundas, Hamilton, valued for sweeping escarpment views, a trail network, and two of the city’s most notable waterfalls, Tew’s Falls and Webster’s Falls. Centered on a Y-shaped gorge about 1 kilometre long and up to 100 metres deep, the area exposes a near-complete rock sequence from the Queenston Formation to the Lockport caprock. Meltwater streams carved the gorge near the end of the Wisconsin glaciation about 10,000 years ago. Tew’s Falls is Hamilton’s tallest and highest waterfall, while Webster’s Falls is its largest, and former fall positions preserved in bowl-shaped basins reveal long-term waterfall recession.

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