The Elgin Trail runs 41 km from Port Stanley on Lake Erie to Southdel Bourne, following Kettle Creek and Dodds Creek, along some country roads for several kilometres, and then goes over the 401 and crosses a forest near the Green Lane landfill site. The trail is well marked with white blazes, but is not well-used, so it is overgrown at times.
This new series highlights the best hikes around the world, trails that we would someday like to hike on and enjoy. There are an assortment of caches along the Elgin trail commemorating these other trails.
About 600,000 tourists a year visit Petra in Jordan, and almost every single one of them follows the same itinerary: Take a bus to Wadi Musa on the edge of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, buy a $70 ticket at the entrance, and walk 15 minutes down a slot canyon known as the Siq. But in recent years, locals—called Bedouins, or “desert dwellers”—have developed a little-known alternative that lets visitors hike 40 miles over five days, tracing an ancient caravan route that predates Petra itself and entering the archeological site through a backdoor canyon rarely seen by anyone but goatherds.
Opa Norshley helped me with the hides and the listing. Hope you like these.