The Nokomis Trail sits just inland from Old Woman Bay in the northern limits of Lake Superior Provincial Park. Providing a wonderful intruduction to the boreal forest environment which dominates from this point north, the trail also offers wonderful southern vistas of the surrounding forested hills and stunning Old Woman Bay to the west. The 3-mile trail served as my initial introduction to Lake Superior Provincial Park over a decade ago. This time I returned with a couple youngun's and found the trip to be every bit as wonderful as the first time I visited. Pictures are worth more than my babbling, so enjoy the album...
Mileage Hiked: 3.0 miles
Trailhead Temp: 50'F
Min. Elevation: 605'
Max Elevation: 1,050'
Mileage Hiked: 3.0 miles
Trailhead Temp: 50'F
Min. Elevation: 605'
Max Elevation: 1,050'
The trailhead, located across Hwy. 17 from the parking lot for Old Woman Bay...
The inauspicious trailhead so common in Ontario Provincial Parks...
Gathering some info...i thought three hours for a 3-ish mile loop seemed a bit inflated, even for my 6 and 8 year old companions...
This part of the park lies firmly within the northern Boreal Forest which stretches from here up to the tundra...the botanist in me was enthralled...
Hadn't seen this one in two years...Twinflower...and it was growing everywhere along the trail...
Something about this trail had me captivated from the very beginning...
Spanish Moss lookalike...the famous southern resident actually isn't a moss or lichen but an actual plant. This, on the other hand is an actual lichen which is hard to explain but, trust me, much different ;)
A particularly serene bit of trail...
For a short while the trail follows the high banks above the Old Woman River...
Two neighboring forms of club moss...not a moss, not quite a fern, this is a plant without a true family...quite sad...
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