Sheppard's Bush Conservation Area

Activities: Free Admission, Lake River Reservoir, Heritage Museum, Facilities Rental, Picnic Facilities, Hiking, Sports Fields, Cycling, Off-road Cycling Trails, Cross Country Skiing, Explore the Outdoors

Sheppard’s Bush Conservation Area is 26 hectares and has over three kilometres of hiking trails, thirteen soccer fields, two picnic pavilions and several historic buildings including the Sheppard family house - home of Windfall Ecology Centre. Aside from the playing fields, the majority of the property is forested, and includes mature pine plantations, mixed forest, an old sugar bush, and a ravine along the East Holland River. Sheppard’s Bush Conservation Area is also part of a larger network of public lands and recreation trails along the East Holland River. From here you can go as far as Holland Landing on the Nokiidaa Trail or from Palgrave to Rice Lake on the Oak Ridges Trail.