The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 13. Conlon Farm (10D) to Port Elmsley (11C-)

Sat. 4 August: 

The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 

13. Conlon Farm (10D) to Port Elmsley (11C-)

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We’ve left the Canadian Shield behind us.  Granite outcrops have been replaced by flat fields and woodlands. 

The Town of Perth is one of the brightest jewels of the Rideau Trail, with the trail passing right beside Town Hall on its way east along the Tay River towpath. 

East of Perth, after turning away from the banks of the Tay River, the hiker enters fields of corn or grass, and refreshingly cool woodland pathways.  

Towards Port Elmsley, the trail is forced onto the side of busy Highway 43, until a better route can be negotiated with a supportive landowner (if we can find one).  It was for this reason that, for the first time in this series of hikes north from Kingston to Ottawa, we travelled in the opposite (north to south) direction.  This allowed us to walk the highway section earlier in the day before the traffic built up.  It was a good decision.

By the end of this hike we had moved 16.3 kilometres closer to Ottawa:

Hiked to date from Kingston    = 198.5 km

Remaining distance to Ottawa  = 129.6 km

Percentage complete                 =  60.5%

These photos are in the north-to-south sequence as hiked.

Port Elmsley:  turning off Station Road onto Stone Road

Stone Road, heading for Hwy 43

Hwy 43 - light traffic

Happy to leave the highway behind us

Enjoyable walking

Well-known landmark:  the blue Ford truck

Colorful route

Enjoying the fruits of the labour of the "weed whackers union"

As high as an elephant's eye?  Just checking.

Lunch beside the Tay Canal

A hot, humid day for walking

Beside the Tay River, entering Perth

At Perth Town Hall

Well-earned short break in Perth

Stewart Park

Rainbow Bridge

On the bridge

The biggest hill on our journey!  Conlon Farm, Perth.