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THE SUDDEN SPLENDOUR
OF THE ELORA GORGE

A Canyon in Farmland

SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY, in the flat farmlands northwest of Guelph, there appears a crack. No ordinary crack, the Elora Gorge is a canyon 2 kilometres long and more than 20 metres deep a wonderland of hanging gardens, caves, caverns, dry valleys and odd-looking rock formations.
The gorge represents the outcropping of a dolostone formation known by geologists as the Guelph Formation, rich in fossils and reefs, and four hundred million years old. When the glaciers left the area about twenty thousand years ago, the waters began to wear down the rock until a long gorge took shape. The remnant of that postar-glacial torrent is today's Grand River.
The various shapes and formations found in the gorge have fanciful names. Dividing the river into a foaming waterfall, the Tooth of Time is formed by the remains of an eroded ledge. Close by, the Lovers' Leap promontory juts into the fork formed by Irwin Creek and the Grand River. Farther downstream, the waters of a long-vanished river that plunged over the edge of the cliff carved a series of rock columns that resemble castle ramparts. An extinct waterfall has carved out a 40-metre-wide amphitheatre known as the Punch Bowl.
The Cascade is the filmy plunge of a small creek into the gully. Across from it the Hanging Gardens shows off various mosses and ferns drooping from an overhanging cliff. Several caves along the riverbank make unusual swimming holes, and the Hole in the Wall provides passage for a trail right through the rock itself.
But hidden under the nearby farmlands there also lies an earlier, pre-glacial gorge, which parallels today's defile. While the existence of this mystery gorge is revealed only through the drilling local wells, it can be seen near Fergus where the route of the earlier gorge crosses that of the newer one, causing the rocky wall of today's gorge to vanish at this point.
The strange beauty and the appeal of the rushing river have turned the gorge into a popular park. Trails follow both riverbanks and wind along the bottom of the gorge. Inner tubes are rented to those who wish to cool off on a hot summer day by floating downstream and viewing the gorge in its entirety and without obstruction.
The Elora Gorge Conservation Area, which also has campgrounds, is a short distance southwest of the popular village of Elora (Ron Brown, "Top 150 unusual things to see in Ontario", THE BOSTON MILLS PRESS, 2016).

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