Getaways & Day Trips GuideDay trips: Nature Spots

Glen Haffy Conservation Area

  • 19305 Airport Rd. View on map »
  • Caledon East
  • 416-667-6295
Less than an hour up Airport Road, these 800 acres of buried escarpment are the stuff of high school geology lessons. The park is a mix of rocky slabs, verdant hills, and pine and deciduous forests. Lookout Point offers a long vista east over the Caledon Hills. Three picnic spots cater to day trippers. Hikers can get a workout on the park’s hilly network of paths (which connect to the Bruce Trail). Yet Glen Haffy is perhaps best known as a fisher’s paradise. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s fish-rearing facility is located here, and two stocked public trout ponds are jumping (though a two-fish-per-angler rule applies).
When:
April to Oct., M–Su, hours vary.
How Much:
adults $5, seniors $4, children under 15 free; activity fees vary.
Parking:
free on-site.
Location
  • map marker #1
    19305 Airport Rd. ,
    Caledon East
  • 416-667-6295

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