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PAGE 24. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002.
Local picnic areas o er opportunities or casual meals
Blyth's Greenway offers picnic spots beside Blyth Creek. Auburn's Manchester Gardens offers a lookout over the Maitland River.
If you don't have to rush from work
to the theatre, there are several
opportunities to take a more leisurely
approach to a performance - at the
Blyth Festival, perhaps stopping for a
picnic either in Blyth or along the
way.
Blyth offers two stops with picnic
facilities.
Lions Park, just off Queen St. on
Wellington, has been a favourite quiet
spot for years. If it's an inclement day
there's a picnic shelter to stay under.
For curiosity's sake, there's a spruce
tree stump that has been chain-saw
sculpted into an eagle.
More recently the former CPR track
and station area on the north side of
the village has been turned into the
Blyth Greenway project, opening up
the Blyth Creek area to public access.
With the entrance off main street
(Queen), just behind Bainton's Old
Mill, the Greenway offers a couple of
locations with picnic tables, one near
the road beside Blyth Creek and the
old railway water tower, another
farther down the trail. near an area
where the trail follows the banks of
the river.
The Greenway has become a
popular-spot for Blyth residents and
visitors alike (many members of the
Festival company use it for running,
walking and biking), combining
nature and history. There are signs
along the way that identify the
different varieties of trees, some of
which grew naturally along the
stream, others of which have been
planted.
The Canadian Pacific diverted the
river to the north to make room for the
station, sidings and cattle pens when
the railway was built from Guelph to
Goderich in 1907. At the south side of
the former railway lines two of
Blyth's largest industries had their
start. Bainton's moved the tannery
portion of their business to a location
southeast of Blyth in the 1960s but
Howson and Howson just keep
expanding their flour milling business,
keeping a fleet of huge bulk tankers on
the road drawing flour to pasta making
plants all over eastern Canada.
If you follow the trail to the east
you'll eventually come to "the arch"
where the north-south "Butter and
Eggs" railway passed over the CPR. If
you want to climb to the top of the
arch (which was partially destroyed
when the CPR pulled up the tracks in
1988), you can enjoy a panoramic
view of the village and Blyth Creek.
Though there is no picnic area, you
can also travel west of Queen St.
along the Greenway trail. There are
separate trails that go down to the
river and a neighbour who keeps
fallow deer as a hobby.
Three miles north of Blyth there's a
shady roadside park on a former
school grounds that many people stop
at in their travels.
Just south of Belgrave you can take
Nature Centre. Road to the Wawanosh
Valley Conservation Area and the
Wawanosh Nature Centre.
If you're coming from the east, the
Brussels Conservation Area offers a
beautiful area for a picnic. The picnic
area is on the east side of the Maitland
River and can be reached by travelling
south on Albert St. from Queen St.
(County Rd. 16). There's a picnic
pavilion for inclement weather and a
wide green space for strolling.
Nearby the water tumbles over the
Brussels dam, originally constructed
to power Logan's Mill, which still
stands on the west side of the river.
The dam was reconstructed in 1984
when the conservation area was
created. South of the dam the broad
mill pond is as large as a small lake
and provides small craft boating
opportunities for local residents.
If you're coming to Blyth from the
west, the Auburn Lions Club has
created a delightful roadside picnic
area south of the village off County
Rd. 8. Manchester Gardens (Auburn
was formerly called Manchester),
hugs the bank of the Maitland River,
offeribg both picnic tables with scenic
views of the river and two lookouts,
where you can stand right out over the
steep banks. To the south you can see
the remnants of the dam which once
powered the early industry that was
the reason for Auburn/Manchester - s
founding.
Farther afield there are also the Falls
Reserve Conservation Areas at
Benmiller, the Clinton Conservation
Area along the Bayfield River east of
Hwy. 4 at the south edge of Clinton
(with a picnic pavilion), the Seaforth
Lions' Park on Hwy. 8 at the eastern
edge of Seaforth and the Pioneer
Conservation Area beside the