Silent Valley - Sydenham Bruce Trail

Tucked between the gentle slopes of a long-vanished glacial landscape and the soaring cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment is an oasis of peace and tranquility-Silent Valley.  The peaceful forests, flower-rich meadows and sparkling wetlands belie its turbulent past, a past that extends 12,000 years to a time of glacial scouring and upheavel, through to the settling by pioneers in the 1800's and later the industrial harvesting of trees for commercial use.  Evidence of this turbulence is found in the hills of glacial debris, scouring of the Escarpment rock, there are ruins of a sturdy homestead with it's apple trees and tangled gardens.