Beare Hill Park is considered a natural area park, surrounded by Rouge National Urban Park. Originally called Beare Road Landfill, the park has been developed to include both easy and intermediate groomed trails for hiking and biking. Scenic Lookouts are placed along the trails to provide views of the City of Pickering, and the City of Toronto.
The Beare Road Landfill was operational until 1983, when it was capped. It is still managed by the City Solid Waste Management Division as a closed landfill. Since that time, natural regeneration and volunteer tree planting have created rich, natural areas of forest, meadow and wetland habitats used by wildlife, including four species at risk.
Whether hiking or biking on the trails, enjoy the spectacular views at the scenic lookouts as you hike up the trail to the top of Beare Hill, where you will have a 360 degree view of the surrounding countryside.
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Multi-cache Instructions
This is a three stage multi cache that starts at the posted coordinates. Round trip to reach all stages and return to the parking is approximatly 3 km and involves some elevatioin changes. Trails range from easy with a 15% grade, to moderate with a steeper climb. All trails are well marked.
Stage 1 - You will find a sign board at the start of the trail. Under the heading "Former Landfill" determine the year the landfill opened. This number is ABCD. Next determine how large is this site in hectare's. This number is EF.
To find the second stage you will need to do some simple math.
Stage 2 can be found at N 43 48.589 + BCD W 79 09.592 + EF
Digital root for the last three digits of the north is 7 and for the west is 1
Stage 2
At stage 2 you will find a sign facing giving you the Easterly views from Beare Hill. Use the following formula to determine the location of the final cache which is at N 43 49.GHI W 79 09.JKL
115 x (Townline Swamp + City of Pickering) + 1 = GHI
203 x Pickering Nuclear Generating Station = JKL
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.