The Black Creek Valley is a good example of an urban green space transformed. Through the hard work of community members, led by the Black Creek Conservation Project, the valley has been changed from sterile, groomed parkland into a more natural state of wildness, if not exactly wilderness. Start your walk from the visitor parking lot at Black Creek Pioneer Village by heading down the delivery vehicle access road that leads into the valley from the road down to the valley and start walking south.

Don’t feel you have to stick to the paved path; there are often more...