.....Our Heritage Roads

Our provincial government has ‘preserved the past’ by designating select roads ‘Scenic Heritage Roads’.  While enjoying these drives, let your imagination wander to earlier days of transportation in horse drawn carriages or sleigh.  How different the sounds and scents would be! 

Jack’s Road is a narrow, winding trail, and a reminder of simpler times past.  Wildlife flourishes in the hardwood forests.  The road runs a distance of 3 km from Rte 1 in Flat River to Rte 207.   Watch for the provincial flower - the Lady’s Slipper in June.  Take photos but it is illegal to pick these.

The County Line Road, which begins at Caledonia at Rte 315 and runs north for 2.6 km, derives its name from the fact that it borders two counties, Kings and Queens. 

The Klondyke Road travels uphill and down through a border of sugar maple, birch and spruce.  Sawmills and homesteads once dotted the area, and rumrunners hid contraband in the woods!  This road travels for 4.9 km in an east west direction from the Selkirk Road   (Rte 23)south of Iona, to the Murray Harbour Road (Rte 24). 

The hedgerow bordering the Mellish Pond Road leads to an old mill pond.  Just east of New Perth, this road runs south from Rte 3 for 3 km to meet the Mellish Pond.