The starting place, Scotsdale Farm, was bequeathed to the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 1982 by Stewart and Violet Bennett, owners of the farm for more than forty years. Encircled by tall maples, the modest white clapboard house and its garden of flowers and lawn sit comfortably behind a low dry-stone wall.

Rolling fields, some dotted with grazing cattle, surround the house, and a large barn dominates the farmyard. Begin your hike by following the blue blazes of the Bennett Heritage Trail as it heads east. Just beyond the barn is a pond created by a dam over Snow’s Creek, a tributary...