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While taking the
Walk-In-The-Clouds Canopy
Tree Tour at Haliburton Forest, consider staying here with us at
Chalet
In-The-Woods Bed and Breakfastin Haliburton village. It is
a short drive of
about 25 minutes by car to the Tree Top canopy tour.
Please note: This is
an information page about Haliburton Forest's famous Walk
In-The-Clouds canopy walk. For additional information, or to book,
contact
Haliburton
Forest directly
by telephone at 705-754-2198. E-mail them at:
haliburton forest @ sympatico.ca. Here is a link to their website:
Haliburton Forest Walk-In-The-Clouds Trees Canopy Tours
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Walk
in the
Clouds Canopy Walk is suspended 20-meters above the forest
floor in the
treetops on a catwalk structure, surrounded by massive, 200-year-old
White Pine trees. The catwalk is made of 25 cm-wide Hemlock planks
suspended
between steel cables in a sling of nylon cords. The four-hour
excursion begins with a hike at the Pelaw River to the end of Marsh
Lake. The canopy walk begins at the shoreline of Marsh Lake. Haliburton
Forest is a privately owned, 23 000 hectare wilderness property near
the southwest border of Ontario's Algonquin Parks, in Haliburton
County. At 500 meters in
length, the walk in the tree tops is the only one of its kind in North
America.
A 15-minute paddle
down Marsh Lake in a 17-seat voyageur canoe to a beach on a rocky
peninsula where a grove of old-growth White Pines. Most of Southern
Ontario's old-growth forests were destroyed between the mid-1700s and
the early 1900s by logging, forest fires and settlement clearing. Only
a few small pockets of old growth forest remain today. Temagami, north
of North Bay, is another location worth visiting.
You will learn how to
walk from treetop to tree top while maintaining your balance. Partway
around the walk, a large platform that can hold about a dozen people,
marks the highest spot on the canopy tour. Here, everyone can enjoy the
splendid view over Marsh Lake while the guides handed out snacks and
drinks.
German-born
Peter
Schleifenbaum, who owns and operates Haliburton Forest, inherited the
property from his father, who purchased the wilderness land from a
Canadian timber company in 1962 for $7 an acre. There are
hiking/walking trails, walks
in the treetops, mountain bicycle paths, snowmobile trail during the
winter, and a host of other recreational activities on the property.
They
raise wolves at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre.
Haliburton Forest also have a submarine.
Haliburton
Forest is open year round and is best known for the destination
attractions of the Wolf Centre, Walk In The Clouds forest canopy
adventure and the unique underwater Submarine Tour. Halliburton Forest
also
has many other outdoor adventure opportunities including mountain
biking, dog sledding, groomed snowmobile trails, hiking, astronomy
& wildlife observation.
Here is a link to an article in The Star
about the Walk In-The-Clouds:
Haliburton Forest Walk-In-The-Clouds Trekking Among the Treetops
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