| The Simcoe/Dufferin area offers a different type of Escarpment experience. Remarkable views over miles of rolling countryside. Small, rushing rivers set in intimate valleys in history. Textbook examples from the age of the glaciers. Often the only evidence of the Escarpment is the softy, easily-recognized red clay of the Queenston shale, visible at roadcuts or where rivers have eroded through the sediments to expose this Escarpment formation. The Escarpment's familiar rocky heights are often nowhere in sight! The dramatic cliffscapes that one finds up to the north and south are buried under deep glacial deposits in this area, prompting geologists to this section as "the buried escarpment".
The Bruce Trail provides some of the best access to this section of the Escarpment. If day-tripping by car is more your style, you can pull over to enjoy views, visit the region's picturesque hamlets and villages and artist studios, browse through antique, craft and pottery shops, even visit a micro brewery.
Visit:
Georgian Triangle Tourist Association
Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority
The Hills of Headwaters
Bruce Trail Association
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 Photo by Richard Armstrong
 Photo by Niagara Escarpment Commission
 Photo by Richard Armstrong
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