Outdoors with Kids Log

I am a busy professional with 3 young children. This account is about the joys and challenges of staying active and outdoors with a young family, including the how to, where to and what to.

Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parksmap_icon

This is a long overdue post about the family's activities in 2008. We were fairly active with our weekend hikes: we explored sections of the Bruce Trail near Dundas, Ontario (Spencer Gorge, Tew's Falls and Webster's Falls) as well as other trails (Lime Kiln Trail) near the Forks of the ...

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Best of the Bruce Trail - Waterdown Trailmap_icon

I have been inactive for a few months making it through the crunch of yearend. The family did remain somewhat active with weekend dayhikes in the Greater Toronto Area. We did hikes in the following areas: -Kortright Conservation Centre, near Woodbridge, Ontario, one half hour north of Toronto; -Rattlesnake Point ...

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Cottage Country with the Family map_icon

I took the family to the parents' cottage in Kipawa, Quebec for a week's vacation and then on to a friend's cottage in Haliburton. We spent the week swimming, boating around, hiking in the back woods, fishing and tanning on the dock. My three year old got a big kick ...

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Canoeing in Ashbridges Baymap_icon

A couple of weeks ago I took my 3 year old daughter on a little day paddle in Ashbridges Bay, near Woodbine Beach in Toronto. I strapped the canoe (a standard issue 16 foot fiberglass Prospector, nothing special) to the SUV and we drove the approximately 1.8 kilometres from my ...

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Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario, Day Hikemap_icon

On Sunday we drove to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario (website http://www.rbg.ca/) to see the sights and check out some subsidiary hiking trails that link up with the main Bruce Trail. Traffic from downtown Toronto to Burlington was unusually heavy for a summer Sunday afternoon, but we arrived ...

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