Round The Lake Trail - Christie Lake

We park in a parking lot which is along Crooks Hollow Road

you pay $2 per hour

You walk up the street to the  Darnley Grist Mill and walk up the trail past the bridge go to your left and start doing the Christie Lake trail

It took us almost 2 hours to walk the trail that is with stopping and taking photos, enjoying scenery and wondering if we were going the right way as you finally do walk through Christies conservation area.

There was no signage or markers on the conservation area that we could see to get us back on the trail.

If you plan on doing this trail you might want to Google map it first to have a good understanding of where the trail leads to.

We knew ahead of time that we had to follow along the lake to get back to the Christie Lake Dam

but we could not find trail markers easily to get back on the trail.

We eventually found the trail that led us through the Christie Lake disc golf course which led us back to the dam.

Darnley Grist mill

 Darnley Cascade

along the  trail

Christie Conservation Area

Along the trail 

Christie Lake Dam

See the opposite side that is what we walked around

Leaving now

Here is a picture of the map

Hamilton Waterfront Trail

You want to get out and get some exercise from walking, jogging, bicycling or rollerblading

this trail is smooth and great to do.

We park over at  Bayfront Park

as of now it has been free parking 

If you park on the Princess Point side you pay for parking

We walk from Bayfront to Princess Point and than walk back.

It matters your pace but it takes us about an hour and 10 minutes 

We were not walking fast paced

 

Closer to the Cootes side is these stairs that you can do

if you go up them you can go towards Dundurn Castle and some nice look outs to see

We sometimes do the stairs. I did them this time.

At Cootes Paradise there is an impressive staircase with a cycling trough leading to Dundurn Park and some amazing lookouts. From here you can connect to Burlington via York Street- extreme caution is needed when crossing the ramp from the 403. - See more at: http://www.waterfronttrail.org/hamilton#sthash.vYVNQxuF.dpuf

You might find more information of the trail here

Waterfront trail /Hamilton

Princess Point

Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park

Bayfront Park

Webster and Tews Falls and Dundas Peak

Webster Falls

 

You only can se Webster Falls from the top as of now as they have the stairs closed off to see the bottom.

Tews Falls

 Now going towards to

Dundas Peak

It has been many years since we have been to Dundas Peak.
We were talking about going and with the fall colours we thought it would be nice to see.
It was a nice day with great scenery and I enjoyed spending it with my husband. 

  

From Hwy 403:

• Take Hwy 6 north (towards Guelph) to Hwy 5.
• West on Hwy 5 to Brock Road
• South on Brock Road to Harvest Rd.
• East on Harvest Road to Short Road.
• South on Short Road to Fallsview.
• Follow the signs all the way to the parking lot. 

It costs $10 to park