Lynde Shores – Nature Walk

Date: Jul 23, 2024 at 10:30
Meeting Location: New parking lot for Lynde Shores, 623 Halls Rd South in Whitby.

Join us on Tuesday, July 23rd at 10:30 AM for 4 hour, 8 km circular walk over mostly unpaved and uneven fairly flat surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs. Walk route has impediments for those with mobility devices. 

Lynde Shores – Nature Walk – Public Walk

Leader: Stephen Kamnitzer

Meeting point: New parking lot for Lynde Shores, 623 Halls Rd South in Whitby.

Getting there: From Toronto ~ Exit Hwy. 401 at Lakeridge Road [exit #406]; turn right and travel south to Victoria Street [a T-junction]; turn left, proceed east on Victoria Street and travel approximately 1 km to Halls Rd. Turn right onto Halls Rd and the NEW DAILY PARKING LOT is a short distance on your left.  

Walk Details: A 4 hour, 8 km circular walk over mostly unpaved and uneven fairly flat surfaces with some gentle slopes. No stairs. Walk route has impediments for those with mobility devices. 

Walk Description: Lynde Creek Marsh and Cranberry Marsh provide many important functions that are typical of the few remaining coastal wetlands found along this northern section of the Lake Ontario shoreline. As a result, these two marshes are designated as provincially significant wetlands.  

We will follow the trails down to Lake Ontario will hike across the beach to the viewing platforms on the west side of the marsh where we will have lunch at a picnic bench.

Come prepare for a joint effort to identify as many species of plants, trees and birds as possible.

What to bring: Lunch; water, camera; binoculars if you have them.

This walk is only one of more than 140 that TFN will host this year alone! TFN members enjoy a complete listing of walks in our newsletter. Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of membership now!

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Toronto Field Naturalists wishes to acknowledge this Land through which we walk. For thousands of years, the Land has been shared by the Wendat, the Haudenosaunee, and the Anishinaabe. Toronto is situated on the Land within the Toronto Purchase, Treaty 13, the traditional and treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is also part of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum, a covenant agreement between Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Wendat peoples and allied nations to peaceably share the land and all its resources. Today, the Land is home to peoples of numerous nations. We are all grateful to have the opportunity to continue to care for and share the beauty of this Land.