Mono Cliffs is a unique area containing fascinating bedrock and glacial geology, as well as a wealth of natural history features. From the parking area, head north, west and then north again along the farm lanes on the west side of McCarston’s Lake. Here you are crossing the Orangeville Moraine.

When climate conditions became less severe, glaciers would often stagnate, and sand and gravel from the melting ice was deposited at the nose of the glacier in knobby ridges called moraines. In the Mono area are two very extensive moraines: the Orangeville Moraine to the west and the Singhampton-Gibraltar Moraine to...