Dundas Valley Conservation Area

Dundas Valley Conservation Area in Hamilton, Ontario, protects a Niagara Escarpment landscape shaped before the Ice Age, altered by the Wisconsin Glaciation, and refined by later streams into today’s kame-and-kettle terrain. Within the Carolinian forest zone, it supports 585 plant and animal species, including 55 endangered ones, and is crossed by a 40-kilometre trail network linked to the Bruce Trail and Trans Canada Trail. The area also preserves important cultural sites, including remnants of historic railways, the ruins of the Hermitage, the former Sulphur Springs resort, and Griffin House, purchased in 1834 by Enerals Griffin, who had escaped slavery and built a family farm there for generations.

Ontario · Canada