Wed.
27 January: Lanark Highland Landscapes
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| In the Lanark Highlands |
Driving north from Perth up the Lanark Road is always exciting. You are heading for the Lanark
Highlands.
Just north of the sleepy village of Lanark, you start to enter a
different world of rolling hills and deeper forests. The highway starts to twist and turn, on its
way towards Calabogie and the Madawaska.
Here, a few kilometres north of Lanark, near Heron Mills, is Baird Trail,
a set of three short loops through the woods, joined by a boardwalk across a small
wetland valley. The bare trees allowed
us to appreciate the hilly country all around us. The snow was hard packed along the trail,
deeper on the more rugged blue loop. A noisy raven flew overhead. Rail fences told of
the time that this was a working farm, now a forest of red pines.
It was over all too soon - and with plenty of time for coffee in Lanark
on our way home.
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| Rail fences and old farm fields |
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| Ancient maple |
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| Different trail signs guide you through the forest |
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