Name: Beginner Sunset Hike 🌄 Chedoke Bruce Trail
Start: 2024-11-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-18T21:00:00-05:00

Enjoy an easy paced hike filled with beauty and scenic views and waterfalls. Approximately 2 hours.

We will be seeing Cliffview falls, Scenic Falls, Westcliffe Falls along the way as well as some great views of the west end of the Hamilton city. Wildlife to look out for are deer, roosting turkey vultures.

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Aprés Hike:

\*Democracy on Locke Street?

Carpooling:
No carpooling but parking is free.

Please bring the following:

• snacks.

• water

• proper footwear for the conditions (runners are OK)

• OPTIONAL: lights as it's dark without snow to reflect moon and starlight.

• Dress for the weather

• Your first event is free and then if you decide to join us for more fun our membership is ten dollars for twelve months. Payable to the event leader or by e-transfer to organizer@hamiltontrailblazers.com

• a positive attitude and a willingness to have fun!

And remember:

Never be afraid to try something new; amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic. \~Author Unknown

Location History

In the past the electric interurban or “radial” railways provided passenger and freight service between Hamilton and the neighbouring communities of Ancaster/Brantford, Grimsby/Beamsville, Burlington/Oakville, and Dundas. Four lines, making 78 miles of track extended outward from Hamilton. The Chedoke Radial Trail was developed on the area’s fourth and final radial line, the Brantford & Hamilton (B&H) Electric Railway.

Construction of the B&H line began in 1906. Hundreds of tons of rock were blasted from the face of the escarpment to create a ledge for the track. Some of the rock was used to fill the Chedoke Falls ravine. The line extended from Main and Hess Streets, extended along Hess, continued along a private right of way just beyond Herkimer Street, then climbed the mountain.

The B&H was completed to Ancaster in 1907 and extended to Brantford in 1908.

Competition from automobiles, buses and trucks brought an end to the radial system and in 1931 the B&H made its final run. The tracks were removed in 1932 and some consideration was given to converting it into a highway. (A wall was erected along the trail to protect passengers from bullets ricocheting from the rifle range below the escarpment. It remains to this day.) Eventually it came under the control of Hamilton’s Board of Park Management, which sold some portions for housing in the 1950s.

On February 23, 1993, Council gave approval to develop the pathway from Hillcrest to Scenic Drive. In 1995-1996, the heavily used existing pathway between Dundurn Street and the Chedoke Golf Course was extended and seating areas were built at the bottom of the Dundurn Stairs and at the parking lot on Scenic Drive. Funding for this development was shared equally between the City of Hamilton and the Province of Ontario (through the Waterfront Regeneration Trust)

The Chedoke Radial Trail was officially opened on May 25, 1996, to coincide with the first anniversary of the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail.

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