Heber Down Conservation Area

Heber Down Conservation Area in Whitby, Ontario, preserves a landscape shaped after the Wisconsin glaciation, when Lake Iroquois left sandy and gravelly beach deposits that later helped create extensive marshes and swamps. Within the Lynde Creek drainage basin and the provincially significant Heber Down Wetland Complex, it includes treed and thicket swamps, a steep creek valley, and groundwater seeps that support specialized plant communities. The area also retains traces of local history, including Devil’s Den folklore and remains of a Canadian Northern Railway bridge completed in March 1910. Today it is valued for both recreation and its rich natural and historical character.

Ontario · Canada