An hour north of Toronto, in the Caledon hills, there are two conservation parks about fifteen minutes apart. The bus stops at both on the way up and both on the way back, so you choose which one you spend the day in. Glen Haffy is small and high up with a view over the whole valley. Albion Hills is five hundred hectares with room to walk all day. Nobody leads you around either of them.
The bus leaves from 34 Asquith Avenue, just north of Yonge and Bloor, at 9:00 AM.
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A short, flat walk on even ground, at your own pace.
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Glen Haffy sits on Airport Road at the top of the Niagara Escarpment, where the land drops away north and east. The conservation authority says its trails "offer some of the most panoramic vistas in southern Ontario", and the end of October is the time of year that claim works hardest, because there are no leaves in the way.
There are three marked trails and they are all short: the Green is 0.85 km and takes about half an hour, the Blue is 2.5 km and about forty five minutes, the Red is 2.7 km and about an hour. Walk all three and you have done roughly six kilometres, which leaves plenty of the day over.
There are also trout ponds, stocked from a hatchery on the property. Fishing costs extra and is paid at the park, not to us.
Small, high up, and shut for the winter the day after we come.
Albion Hills is the big one: 538.5 hectares of conservation land on Regional Road 50, about fifteen minutes from Glen Haffy. Where Glen Haffy is a view and three loops, this is a whole forest with hills in it.
There are more than fifty kilometres of trail. Most of it was built for mountain bikes, a mix of wide double track and narrow technical single track, and walkers use the same network, so expect to share and to step aside now and then. There are also two disc golf courses, an eighteen hole and a nine hole.
Unlike Glen Haffy this one is open all year, which is why it is the second half of this page rather than the first.
Big, wooded, and open every day of the year but two.
Pick one. The bus calls at both in the morning and at both in the afternoon, in the same order each time.
We pick you up
Just north of Yonge and Bloor subway station. Come up the Asquith exit and look for the bus.
The small one, at the top of the escarpment. Three marked loops of 0.85 km, 2.5 km and 2.7 km, trout ponds stocked from a hatchery on site, and the long view north and east that the conservation authority calls one of the most panoramic in southern Ontario. It runs weekends only from September and shuts for the winter on 1 November.
Good to know:
Note: Collected here at 3:45 PM. The park's own last admission is 4:00 PM and it closes at 5:00.
The big one. Five hundred and thirty eight hectares of forest and hills with more than fifty kilometres of trail through it, most of it built for mountain bikes and shared with walkers. Two disc golf courses as well. Open all year, unlike its neighbour.
Good to know:
Note: Collected here at 4:00 PM. The park closes at 5:00 on an October Saturday.
We drop you back
The bus returns to the same place it left from, so you go home the way you came.
This is our estimated return time, not a guarantee. Traffic can change it and some trips do run late, so please leave yourself some room afterwards rather than booking something tight against it.
Shoes, a lunch and a warm layer. That is most of it.
Be realistic about this one. Forks of the Credit, the nearest park Ontario Parks reports on, was at 100 percent colour change on 22 October, and the peak for this corner of Caledon ran from about the 13th to the 21st. By our Saturday the maples will be bare.
What is left is still worth the bus: oak and beech hold their rusty leaves for weeks after the maples drop, the whole forest floor is covered, and the long view from Glen Haffy is better without a canopy in front of it. This is a late autumn walk, not a leaf-peeping trip, and we would rather say so.
The conservation authority runs Glen Haffy weekends only from mid September, and the season ends on 1 November. Saturday the 31st is the second to last day it is open until spring.
Those dates are the park's and they can move for weather. Albion Hills is open all year and is not affected.
One date, Saturday 31 October. Tickets are not up yet; the date and the fares come straight from the booking system when they are.
Placeholder dates · the real ones come from our booking system
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The bus calls at Glen Haffy and then at Albion Hills on the way up, and at both again on the way home. Get off wherever you like.
The conservation authority runs it weekends only from September and closes it for the winter on 1 November. Ours is one of its last two days open.
Dropped mid morning, collected at 3:45 at Glen Haffy and 4:00 at Albion Hills. Long enough to walk everything at Glen Haffy twice over.
No group to keep up with and nobody talking at you. Walk fast, walk slow, or sit at the lookout and eat your sandwich.
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It shuts for the winter on 1 November and opens again in the spring. Albion Hills is there all year, so if you can only do one of them, there is an argument for doing the one that closes.
Not quite the right fit? These all leave from the same spot downtown.
