Section 1:
Guelph Humane Society to Whitelaw Road - 3.7km
Parking Area: Outside Guelph Humane Society gates. NO parking on roadway to quarry or wastewater treatment plant. Also small parking area on Niska Road
High Water Side Trail - 200m
- Loop trail that crosses a creek
Lookout Side Trail - 60m
- In and out trail to Speed River lookout
John Woods Side Trail - 1 - 2km
- Trail passes huge oak trees, then through cedar forest
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Vernal Pool Side Trail - 150m
- Loop trail
John Woods Side Trail - 2 - 800m
- Loop trail through wet, then stoney cedar forest
Imperial Drain Sidetrail - 200m
Section 2:
Whitelaw Road to Wellington Rd. 32 South, 5.1km
Parking Area: Niska/Whitelaw/Side Rd. 10 intersection ends at a barricade where there is limited parking
Section 3: Wellington Rd. 32 to Blackbridge/Roszell Rd - 4.6km
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Riverside Side Trail - 200m
- Runs alongside river through exotic cedars
Carmeuse Side Trail - 300m
- Route is along former edge of the Guelph spillway and features gnarly cedars, boulders and outcrops
Abutments Side Trail - 1 - 50m
- Features views up and down river atop old approaches to a bridge that once led to the “company town” of Glen Christie and its quarries on the opposite side of the river
Workaround Side Trail - 1 - 175m
- Has been re-blazed orange and is now part of the main trail.