I placed a few caches here, and there is another cache just east of mine called Lower Purple Woods GC3XEJ1. I suggest heading east and then south to complete the loop and all of the caches along the trail. The caches here are meant to be family friendly.
The conservation area is open dawn to dusk all year although trails and parking lot are not maintained through the winter.
Purple Woods Conservation Area sits at the crest of the Oak Ridges Moraine which is one of the largest moraines in Ontario. It extends over 160 km from the Niagara Escarpment in the west to the Trent River System in the east.
64 rivers or streams begin on the Moraine and run either south directly into Lake Ontario, or north to Lakes Scugog, Simcoe or Georgian Bay (Lake Huron). Some of these watercourses include The Credit, Humber, Don, Rouge, Ganaraska, Pigeon, Nonquon, Beaverton, Black, Holland (East and West) and Nottawasaga Rivers; Etobicoke, Duffins, Lynde, Oshawa, Bowmanville, Burnley and Innisfil Creeks. The Oak Ridges Moraine is a very important part of the health of the watershed that provides drinking water to 250 000 people.
It also has a mature sugar bush that hosts a Maple Syrup Festival every spring. When I was placing this cache the lines to collect the sap were already in place.