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.
The HIghline Trail in Glacier National Park in Montana is the best hike in the park. It can be done as a 15-mile out-and-back hike, or an 11.5-mile hike to the Loop at the Going-to-the-Sun Road, at which a shuttle bus can take you back to the starting point. Described as the ‘bucket list of all hikes’ for anyone serious about trekking, the Highline Trail is an 11.5 mile trek that brings you through the best views of Glacier. Winding around rugged cliff edges and through vibrant vegetation, the trail climbs above the Going-to-the-Sun Road. Walking on top of former glaciers displaying snow from an opposite season, it never weans away from the epic landscape of the northern Rockies. Between mile 5 and 6 is the junction to the Garden Wall. Free of switchbacks, deceivingly rugged and steep, the Garden Wall challenges your legs but also supplies you with one of the most epic views in all of Glacier. Within a half mile, you’ll gain over 800 feet in elevation. At the summit you’ll have panoramic views of incredulous ice fields, the teal waters of Grinnell Glacier and the lakes of Many Glacier.
Opa Norshley helped me with the hides and the listing. Hope you like these.
This cache is in a tree just below the trail.