Take a hike! Explore trails in Bradford and beyond
There are plenty of great hiking trails in and around Bradford where you spend an hour or two, or more, getting exercise while enjoying the great outdoors.
Here are five:
Nokiidaa Trail
Part of this trail network includes an easy 4.5-kilometre on the west side of in East Gwillimbury. It starts on the south-west side of a dam and winds along the Holland River through mixed bush, meadow and a small wetland.
Scanlon Creek Conservation Area Trail
A moderately challenging, 3.5-kilometre, located just north of Bradford, takes you along rolling terrain, across the creek, through a wetland and forest.
Spring Creek Trail
This two-kilometre, , accessed off in Alliston, follows Spring Creek. Along the route you’ll pass a wide variety of trees including beech trees, hard sugar maples, Manitoba maple, red pine, red dogwood, hemlock, cedar and white ash.
Thornton Bales Conservation Area
Want a challenge? Nicknamed this King conservation area, off west of Bathurst Street, offers trails for the physically fit. Part of the Oak Ridges Moraine, it has an elevation that drops 54 metres. A side trail provides access to the Koffler Scientific Reserve at Joker’s Hill.
Welsh Tract
Dubbed , this 2.2-kilometre trail, off west of 5th Side Road, winds through old growth forest and boasts rolling hills plus a secluded pond nestled among a cedar grove and sumacs.