This Ontario trail is lined with snow-covered trees leading to a cascading waterfall

Cedar Falls Conservation Area will have you feeling like you’re walking in a winter wonderland!

Picture this: It’s a calm winter day. The air is cool, you’re bundled up and heading out to explore a snowy trail in a stunning evergreen forest. As if it could get any better, the trail leads you to a cascading waterfall. Are you sold?

Grab your favourite walking buddy – it’s time to set out on a winter adventure.

Getting to Cedar Falls Conservation Area

Cedar Falls is a bit of a drive from Toronto/the GTA, but it’s worth it for those wintery views. You can find the park nestled in O’Connor, Ontario, a township about 35 minutes by car from Thunder Bay.

Getting there from the Toronto area will take you around 15 hours but it’s a gorgeous drive, passing through scenic towns and villages such as Bala, Port Severin, Blind River and Batchewana Bay.

Parking is available on site and costs $5 per vehicle.

The Cedar Falls Conservation Area Trial

There’s only one trail to follow here and it’s well-marked, so you don’t have to worry about getting lost.

Spanning about one kilometre, the hike takes you through an evergreen forest, described as both picturesque and pleasant – the combo every hiker wants to hear.

Once you’ve weaved through the forest you’ll be treated to arguably the best part of the adventure – the cascading falls.

You will certainly be able to hear the flowing falls coming as you approach them and it makes for an amazing photo opportunity.

More waterfalls near Cedar Falls Conservation Area

If one waterfall wasn’t enough, don’t worry. There’s another massive one just 10 minutes away at Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park.

This Ontario Park is open year-round, with a day-use charge of $12.25 per vehicle.

Head over to see the second-highest waterfall in Ontario, Kakabeka Falls. Once completed, you can blast Waterfalls by TLC on your drive home and know that you did in fact go chasin’ waterfalls.

Cedar Falls Conservation Area

Where: Broome Rd O’Connor, Ontario

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