is part of 'Cape Chin' on the Bruce Peninsula
It´s the largest land based flowerpot on the Bruce Trail!
The site of the lookout and cairn is a natural viewing platform.
How to get there and Where to Park:Take the Cape Chin North Road off the East Rd., and just before it turns down the Escarpement, follow Bochardt Rd. to the north. Shortly after the white blazes of the Bruce trail turn towards the water, there is a small parking lot on the left.
From this vantage point on the Niagara Escarpment, you can see a large vase-shaped pillar of stratified rock. This is the Devil's Monument, a stack formed about 5,500 years ago by wave action from glacial Lake Nipissing, an ancestor of Lake Huron, with the lookout consisting of a 12-ft railing with stone pillar structures and an interpretative cairn for the 'Devil's Monument' feature on the Bruce Trail.
Also known as the Devil's Pulpit, this feature is the only documented Nipissing-level or "flowerpot" on the Bruce Peninsula. Accordingly the Devil's Monument has been designated an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest by the Province of Ontario.
The Monument stands approx imately 14 metres tall, its upper surface almost level with the brow of the Niagara Escarpment. The Monument is composed of layers of dolomite cap rock. This dolomite, a type of limestone, was formed million years ago from the skeletal remains of marine animals at the bottom of a shallow inland sea.
Approximately thousand years ago, when glacial meltwater covered most of the Bruce Peninsula, the rock that composes the Monument was actually a headland that jutted out into the lake. The level of Lake Nipissing was 17 metres higher than current lake levels. Water levels receded about 4,000 years ago.
Near the co-ordinates you can find an information plaque.
To Log this find please e-mail me the answers to he following questions:
1) How many thousand years ago was the most of Bruce Peninsula covered with glacial meltwater?
2) What kind of rock is the Monument made of?
3) How many million years ago was this dolomite formed?
Go down to the basement:
4) Explain why the stones left of the Monument have the same strata as on top!
5) Estimate the diameter at the base of the Monument!
Optional: Taking pictures of yourself at the Devil´s Monument!
You must return via the staircase. Then take the Devil´s Monument Side Trail for a short distance directly west to join the Minhinnick Side Trail. Here turn south and follow the old cart track back to your car.