Dragon's Tooth

Coordinates: Lat 45.439737°N, Long 65.349975°W

Dragons-Tooth Description: A large boulder that looks like a dragon’s tooth, precariously balanced near the edge of the escarpment, deep in the fog forest not far west of Seely Beach along the Fundy Footpath, between Big Salmon River and Little Salmon River.

Nature Notes: A great landmark along the Footpath, this structure is likely a glacial erratic.

Image by Marc Leger

 

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Dickson Falls

Coordinates: Lat 45.586912°N, Long 64.974174°W Dickson-Falls

Description and directions: This 1 km long trail is a combination of nice boardwalk and fine gravel trail offering many nice views and a picturesque waterfall in a small gorge.It is accessible from the Point Wolfe road, approximately 2 km from park headquarters on the way to Point Wolfe.

Nature Notes: The trail has many interpretation signs that give lots of background info on the “big picture” of the landscape of Fundy National Park. Besides the lovely cascades here, perhaps the most notable feature of the Dickson Falls trail is that it effectively illustrates what much of the Fundy National Park landscape is all about « in miniature », discussing the formation of the gorges that line much of the Fundy coast since the last ice age.

Image by Denis Doucet

Links: Parks Canada Fundy NP home page
Fundy NP summer map

 

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Cradle Brook

Coordinates: Lat 45.456559°N, Long 65.317589°W

Cradle-Brook

Description: A small, sheltered cobble beach at the mouth of Cradle Brook.

Nature Notes: As is the case with most of the rivers between St Martin’s and Alma, the upper section of Cradle Brook flows chiefly through Precambrian volcanic bedrock, here mostly comprised of rhyolite and dacite, whereas the lower section nearest the beach flows through less consolidated, sedimentary or metamorphic bedrock composed mainly of quartzite, conglomerate, slate and siltstone. This explains the predominance of the latter types of stones in the beach cobbles.

Image by Marc Leger

 

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Crooked Creek Look-Off

Coordinates: Lat 45.764803°N, Long 64.745295°W

Crooked-Creek-Lookoff

Description and directions : A look-off situated a few kilometers north of the junction between route 114 and Forestdale Rd (which becomes Crooked Creek Rd) in Riverside-Albert. From the look-off platform, one can take in a totally Amazing View of the Caledonia Gorge.

Nature Notes: The Crooked Creek Look-off, which takes in a good proportion of the Caledonia Gorge, is located in a Class 2 Provincial Protected Natural Area (PNA), looking down at Crooked Creek. Hawks and Eagles can sometimes be seen riding thermal air currents above the spectacular gorge, especially while migrating along the ridges in spring and fall. It is also a great place to witness the fall colours in late September to mid-October. Other than the viewing platform, there is a picnic area with dry toilets and the head of small loop trail that goes through a pleasant little section of Acadian Forest.

Image of gorge and fall foliage by Ben Phillips

 

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Caribou Plain

Coordinates: (viewing platform for the bog): Lat 45.620507°N, Long 65.060011°W

Caribou-Plain

Description: A well-groomed, wheelchair accessible trail, with sections of boardwalk that pass through some very nice, mature stands of mixed forest, as well as past an old beaver pond where frogs and dragonflies abound in summer. The trail leads to a wonderful viewing platform at the edge of a bog lake and a domed bog.

Nature Notes: The domed bog is the “Caribou Plain” where these majestic ungulates were once found, at least as late as the 19th century. These days, the bog and surrounding forest are great places to see moose, an excellent variety of forest birds and some of the fascinating carnivorous plants that thrive in sphagnum bogs.

Image by Brian Townsend/Parks Canada

 

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  1. Cape Enrage
  2. Bore Park and the Tidal Bore
  3. Big Salmon River
  4. Black Hole

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