Beginning the Bruce Trail : Queenston Heights to St. Catharines
Beginning the Bruce Trail Niagara Section and the Laura Secord Legacy Trail Our third day in the Niagara region would have us backtrack to the town site of Queenston where we got an ice cream at the Laura Secord Homestead prior to setting out. Once prepared for the day ahead we climbed back up the steep staircase to Queenston Heights Park. We have hiked this section several times, as part of a family outing in 2013, as part of an organized End to End hike of the Bruce Trail in 2015, as a day trek in 2017, again as part of the 2018 Laura Secord hike from Queenston Heights to Decew House in St. Catharines in 2018, and finally in 2019 prior to heading out onto the Trans Canada Trail. In many ways, it is fair to say that it is Ontario’s epic Bruce Trail which runs through this region and puts us on the way toward walking across Canada! Today’s route we would be following part of the 30 km trekked by Laura Secord during the War of 1812 from Queenston to St. Cathrines whic...