on May 28th, 2010

Roundtrip: 4km Difficulty: Easy Location: Dorion, ON Click here for Google Map. Hurkett Cove Conservation Area is an excellent  place to spend an afternoon enjoying a picnic and a short hike.  It is a popular location for birding and exploring the Lake Superior shoreline.

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on April 2nd, 2010

Roundtrip: 1 km Difficulty:  Difficult Location:  Dorion, ON Click Here for Google Map These waterfalls are fun to visit any time of year.  You can usually walk right up to the falls and even in behind them. The Upper Wolf River Falls are located near Dorion.  From  highway 17, take Fish Hatchery Road west and [...]

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on November 27th, 2009

Roundtrip: 4km Difficulty: Moderate Location: Dorion,ON Click Here for Google Map This was one of the hikes I took while I was searching for the river under the rock.  The hike takes you down a logging road to an old bridge and back along the creek.  There are some nice rapids on this creek as [...]

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on October 26th, 2009

Like many hikers I make a tick list of hikes I intend to do each season. This summer I wasn’t able to tick off all the hikes on my list because I spent several outings searching for a place called “The River under the Rock” that I had heard about from an old-timer. To my [...]

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on July 17th, 2009

Roundtrip: 2 km Difficulty: Difficult Location: Dorion, ON Click here for google map. This is a gorgeous little known location with a marked trail to the top of a long cliff band known as Claghorn providing spectacular cliff top views.  This is one of several trails in the area. The Observer Rock Trail was created [...]

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