Shaw Woods Outdoor Education Centre

Shaw Woods is a gorgeous nature preserve located near Cobden, ON. Stretching over 200 hectares and managed by the Shaw Woods Outdoor Education Centre, it has a 13-kilometre network of self-guided walking trails that meander through woods and wetlands, over boardwalks, beside water, and up to a lookout.The “West Side” of the preserve is a protected old-growth forest where a trail leads through towering hemlock, beech and maple trees, some 200 years old or more. The trail includes a “boulder garden,” a scattering of hulking stone (“glacial erratics”) left by retreating glaciers millennia ago.The “East Side” trail runs beside the Snake River before climbing past a mix of old-growth pine and younger trees to the lookout. That lookout perches high above Shaw Pond along the Dore Scarp, an escarpment named for nearby Lake Dore and dating back about 500 million years.Shaw Woods is open year round. There is no formal admission fee but donations are greatly appreciated.
Visit the Shaw Woods website
Location: 2065 Bulger Road, Eganville, Ontario K0J 1T0
Contact: shawwoods.edu@gmail.com

Balsam Hill: Horton Women’s Institute

A non-denominational group of women whose work supports a vibrant community. Monthly meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the Admaston/Bromley Municipal Council Chambers.
477 Stone Road. (No meetings in May or December)
Each meeting has an educational program.
Further info available at 613-432-6317.