I’m enough lucky to be living on the Bruce Peninsula for the summer, about a half hour drive from the small town of Tobermory and Bruce Peninsula National Park. There are tons of gorgeous lakes and trails in the area, and I’m hoping to do a lot of hiking and water sports. I’m going to be for working a company that does canoe and kayak rentals, and my family has a few kayaks, stand up paddleboards and a canoe at our cottage, with lake access. My boyfriend grew up in Tobermory, and has also worked for Parks Canada up here, so he knows the area incredibly well. Lucky for me, he takes me on lots of amazing walks and hikes, some of them to secret places.
My hope is to be able to share one new Bruce Peninsula hike a week on the blog, so if you’re planning a trip here, watch this space for some awesome adventures you can try out!
We arrived in the area last Saturday afternoon, and went on our first hike on Sunday. We did the Burnt Point Loop, which is part of the Bruce Trail, and is easy to access from the Bruce Peninsula National Park visitor’s centre. You can start or end your journey with a trip up the observation tower as well, for some awesome panoramas of the area.
Justin told me that most people don’t do the loop, and just walk down the trail that goes straight out from the visitor’s centre to the “look out point” and back. What these people don’t know is that the Burnt Point Loop is a fairly easy 4.5 km loop that takes about an hour, if you’re walking an average pace and spending a few minutes stopping at each of three different look out points along the way. You get amazing views of some small islands and Lake Huron, and can even catch a very far away glimpse of one of the flowerpot rock formations on “Flowerpot Island”. We even stumbled across one of the visitor’s centre’s geocaches.
This is one of the easiest Tobermory area hikes to find, because you start on the trail right at the visitor’s centre, follow the signs, and the blue Bruce Trail blazes on the trees.
(to get to the visitor’s centre, going north on Highway 6, you turn right/east onto Chi Sin Tib Dek Road, just before the town of Tobermory. If you’re coming from town, south on Highway 6, turn left onto Chi Sin Tib Dek. Simple!)
Currently loving: My Nike Frees. I usually hate the look of running shoes, but I actually like the Frees enough to wear them out in public and not just on hikes or at the gym! Check out a pair for yourself below.