Seeing Life from a Different Perspective!
I grew up in this vast space called Superior Country, hiking trails, waterfalls, fishing streams, swimming holes and Ouimet Canyon visits! Before the boardwalk was constructed our family would visit and hang onto a tree and peer over the edge, jump the foot wide cracks in the ground and lay on our tummies to look over the cliff! Now that was a different perspective! Living on the edge and not knowing it!
Fun Facts about Ouimet Canyon
The canyon was named after the former railway station of Ouimet, today an unincorporated place and railway point,[2] located nearby on the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The station itself was named after the Canadian Minister of Public Works from 1892 to 1896, Joseph-Aldric Ouimet.
Panoramic views of a 150 metre wide gorge and sheer cliffs that drop 100 metres straight down to the canyon floor
A trail and boardwalk connects two lookout platforms with spectacular views of the canyon
The gorge is 100 metres (330 ft) deep, 150 metres (490 ft) wide and 2,000 metres (2.0 km; 1.2 mi) long
There are rare alpine flowers that are considered especially beautiful and arctic plants normally found one thousand kilometres further north, survive in the unique environment at the bottom of the canyon. The canyon is shown in the IMAX film North of Superior.
The canyon is believed to have formed when a diabase sill dating from a billion years earlier was split open, either by the weight of advancing glaciers or the large volumes of water released during their retreat. Erosion by wind and rain continued the formation of the canyon. A large rock column known as the Indian Head can be seen from the northern viewing area.
