2016 Four-Season Visitors' Guide
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FREE LESS THAN AN HOUR FROM TORONTO 2016 FOUR- SEASON VISITORS’ GUIDE More day. Less trip. A rustic medley of honest tastes, It’s also real close. Plan a day epic fall vistas, 23,000 horses and or a weekend up here, and your even more hills. All less than an precious time isn’t spent driving, hour, and a world, away. but being. Headwaters is barely Welcome to Headwaters, where 45 minutes from Toronto and even Ontario gets real. That’s something closer to the GTA. A dozen or so that a lot more people seem to be songs in the car and you’re here. looking for, even for just a day. The raspberry pie’s ready and the Real is pure, clean food grown green hills are calling. just a few yards from your plate, Stroll these pages. Read about made with old respect and young the nature that nurtures us all year passion. Towns that have kept their long. Listen to the craftsmen and souls, untouched natural beauty, horsewomen, the art-makers and landscapes and people that don’t the cider-makers who have found quit. And age-old country fun, like their real in Headwaters. Then hit timeless country fairs, graceful the road, and sooner than you ever tea-times and Christmas parades thought possible, you’ll be rolling where the tractors light up and the through here and on your way to people slow down. finding your own. Welcome to real. HEADWATERS.CA 3 Just 35 minutes from everywhere, a quality of life like nowhere else. This is Erin. Charming villages and cozy hamlets. Inspired shopping, eating and old-fashioned fun. Endless hills and trails for hikers, riders and nature lovers. All surprisingly close to major centres and highways. To find out why so many visitors, new residents and smart businesses are choosing Erin’s peaceful rural lifestyle, take a short drive soon. It might turn into a long stay. Photos by: Martin Lamprecht erin.ca erin ad.indd 1 2015-04-16 12:28 AM MADE UP HERE This Guide was grown and raised in Headwaters by these folks. Published by: Headwaters Tourism Leader, energizer, whip-cracker: Michele Harris, Headwaters Tourism, Mono headwaters.ca Wrangler, unearther, head worrier: Diane Murenbeeld, Headwaters Tourism Ideas, design, words: Shawn, Jim and Chris Touchwood Design, East Garafraxa touchwooddesign.com Proofreader, stone turner: Kelly Myles, Orangeville Researcher, fact checker, fine-tooth comber: Dean Tea, Mono Take-no-prisoners sales team: Wayne Townsend, Orangeville Grant Harris, Mono Roll with it. When life gives you ups and downs, come to where they’re beautiful. Mono Centre Road & Fourth Line, Mono. John Woolner, Orangeville Principal photography: James MacDonald Photography, Caledon jamesmacdonaldphotographer.format.com Additional photography: Sandra Traversy Inside your guide The man who knew too much (and shared it with our writer): Wayne Townsend, Orangeville Headwaters Tourism partnership manager Our Headwaters map will prove just You’ll get a real kick out of our and cheer-us-on-er: 07 28 Stephany St.Louis, Orangeville how close we are to you classic Fun & Festive events Printed once again by: Keith Luder, PointOne Graphics Inc. Your self-guided tour of our Towns, Saddle up and explore our point-one.com 08 Villages and Hamlets starts here 34 Horse & Country equestrian hub Creative di!erences solved over Nutellacinos at: Tin Roof Cafe, Erin tinroofcafe.ca Explore our ruggedly beautiful We’ve found you some unique 10 Nature & Leisure attractions 38 places to Shop, See and Stay While Headwaters Tourism has made every e!ort to depict accurate and current information, there may be discrepancies or errors that are unintended. Taste, pick and sip our celebrated How do you put a Guide like this 16 Fresh and Local fare 50 together? With folks like these Proud to be part of the See why we’re one of Ontario’s 22 richest Arts & Heritage regions Next time you buy some fresh veggies at one of our incredible farmers’ markets, just drop a few on the ground, okay? Much appreciated. On our cover: From oldest to youngest, Aliyah, Mariah and Savannah Leahy. Just three of the six Leahy children joining parents Frank and Chanda in the family music and dance troupe, Rhythmfoot. HEADWATERS.CA 5 WELCOME 1. 4. Electric car not to scale 2. 3. COMING SOON: EVEN MORE WAYS TO RECHARGE. In the nearish future, you may drive up to meet these fine folks on Headwaters’ new electric vehicle tourism highway, now in the works. Join us on social media to stay updated. But you can still come up anytime to get unplugged. 5. If idle hands are the devil’s workshop, that’s even more proof it’s heaven up here. Match the numbers on that map over there with these busy people: 1. Pick up a brush with Mark Grice, Alton Mill Arts Centre 2. Visit Grand Valley distiller Jamie Stam’s Bootlegger Barn, Grand Spirits Inc. 3. Don Coats will steer you right. Caledon Hills Cycling 4. Need a meal? Need 500? It’s all good. Adriana Roche, Gourmandissimo Catering & Fine Food Shop 5. Curator Sarah Robinson being careful, Dufferin County Museum & Archives 6. The Adamos are waiting for you, Adamo Estate Winery 7. Meet Daniel Clark, Cithara Guitars’ one-man assembly-line Learn about these people and more at headwaters.ca/QandA 6. 7. 6 WHERE ONTARIO GETS REAL. WELCOME Honeywood Ruskview Dundalk Redickville JUST 51 KM FROM TORONTO Terra Nova AS THE CROW FLIES 10 Hornings Mills Mans!eld … or as the SUV rolls, and you’re in Ontario’s highest elevation and countriest beauty, Headwaters. Wherever you’re coming from, 7 Stanton 89 Violet Hill you’ll find us surprisingly easy to get to SHELBURNE Primrose 5 Rosemont and just as hard to leave. Get news, events and much more about us at headwaters.ca. DUFFERIN In case you’re wondering: whenever we Mono Centre mention a distance-to-Toronto in this Guide, COUNTY Camilla we used the CN Tower as our starting point. Hockley Laurel Our views are so great, you can see it from 6 almost anywhere. GRAND VALLEY 2 Waldemar Mono Mills 109 9 ORANGEVILLE Palgrave 1 10 Marsville Alton TOWN OF Caledon Village Orton TOWN OF CALEDON Cataract Hillsburgh ERIN CALEDON EAST ERIN 4 BOLTON Belfountain Inglewood 3 400 Brisbane Cheltenham Ospringe VAUGHAN Terra Cotta 410 407 NORTH YORK 404 BRAMPTON 401 Whaddaya mean, crow? We’re wild turkeys. There’s like a zillion of us here. Quiet, Wayne. They haven’t figured out how tender and full-flavoured we are yet. 401 TORONTO MISSISSAUGA MILTON 407 OAKVILLE 403 LAKE ONTARIO BURLINGTON HAMILTON HEADWATERS.CA 7 WELCOME MAIN STREET LIVES HERE. Headwaters’ proudly preserved-towns, villages and hamlets are alive and weller than ever. And while there are eight distinctive destinations below, there are almost 40 on our map and double that in total. You never know which one will have a waterfall, a café, or a history that will strike a chord with you, so use these as points on a map of real. And when the road in-between them reveals somewhere new, follow it. Because you just never know. The dramatically restored Alton Mill Arts Centre, atop rushing water Looking for authentic, small-town Ontario? u Grand Valley might be it Time stops in the classic Cheltenham General Store u Easy, rider: there are bikers and cyclists galore in Erin u u Village of Erin Alton Founded: 1820 Founded: 1855 Population: 2,674 Population: 895 Km from Toronto: 81 Km from Toronto: 77 Charm epitomized, Erin is a postcard: What seems like a quiet, historic village rolling hills, meandering rivers, cozy Cheltenham on rolling water is full of surprises. Like Grand Valley hamlets and villages. Its bustling Founded: 1822 the Alton Mill, Ontario’s most beautiful Founded: 1855 downtown is a medley of adorable shops Population: 479 arts centre filled with open-to-the-public Population: 2,726 and lovingly preserved buildings. Must- Km from Toronto: 60 artist’s studios; Osprey Valley Golf, Km from Toronto: 101 see: the epic Erin Fall Fair, October 7-10, Canada’s best three course facility; and 2016; the Erin Town Crier, who announces Cozy, picturesque and historic, with many unassuming Ray’s 3rd Generation Bakery. Grab a lunch (don’t forget the fries & big news; lovely, strollable trails like the designated heritage properties. The Goodies, yes, but also raved-about gravy) from classic diner Kelly’s Korner, Elora Cataract Trailway. 1887-built General Store overlooks the gourmet meals. then picnic along the gentle Grand River Credit River and sits on the Bruce Trail; which snakes through a town that hasn’t IMPORTANT: after your hike, drive three minutes to IMPORTANT: changed in a century. The ecologically No crocodiles allowed (bylaw 13-34). refresh at the stunning Spirit Tree Estate If you need to replace your marriage important, bird-paradise wetlands of Cidery; four more minutes and you’re in license here, it’s $50.00. Luther Marsh are also a must-see. the hot-tub at the 180-year-old Top of the Hill B&B. IMPORTANT: The schnitzel at The Grand River Chop IMPORTANT: House is bigger than your head. While many municipalities forbid annoying yelling and shouting, Cheltenham also forbids hooting. 8 WHERE ONTARIO GETS REAL. WELCOME Jelly Craft Bakery’s carrot cake has Take in top-notch Canadian theatre, been known to make farmers cry in a restored opera house u u Photographers love this hamlet, right on the Bruce Trail at its most scenic u Awnings, gourmet shops, lovely small homes: just plain pretty u Shelburne Orangeville Founded: 1879 Founded: 1863 Population: 6,500 Population: 27,975 Km from Toronto: 103 Km from Toronto: 79 This authentic farming community keeps Of course you’ll stroll downtown with two important historical traditions very Mono Centre its superb restaurants and funky shops, Caledon East much alive: the Heritage Music Festival Founded: 1823 but there’s more to this artistic, tree- Founded: 1820 (formerly The Shelburne Fiddle Fest) is Population: around 500 lined town.