Ruckle Park Farm Circle (Salt Spring) - Retreads
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.08 mi
- Elevation gain
- 502 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 456 ft
- Max elevation
- 256 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 25 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 21 minutes
- Time
- 3 hours one minute
- Coordinates
- 1024
- Uploaded
- October 8, 2021
- Recorded
- October 2021
near Beaver Point, British Columbia (Canada)
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Itinerary description
This hike circles the working Ruckle Heritage farm in the Provincial park of the same name. The first half is along the coast and the rest is through the forest surrounding the farm.
The shoreline stretch looks out onto a busy shipping channel, with many boats passing by - it is the sea route of mainland & Gulf Island ferries. The hike's return point is a great spot for lunch, looking over to Pender, Mayne and Galiano Islands. (note: we did lose the trail just after the 6th waypoint and had to backtrack a bit)
Return is through a mature maple and cedar forest. Some of the trees here are huge! Skirting the farm, you are likely to see sheep and cattle. On the day of this hike we also saw goats and turkeys!
There are toilets at the trailhead and also at the heritage farm
The Retreads Hiking Club gives this hike an AVA rating of 2C.
Looking for a hike in the Cowichan Valley? Or, looking for hiking companions? Google "Retreads Hiking Club CVRD".
The shoreline stretch looks out onto a busy shipping channel, with many boats passing by - it is the sea route of mainland & Gulf Island ferries. The hike's return point is a great spot for lunch, looking over to Pender, Mayne and Galiano Islands. (note: we did lose the trail just after the 6th waypoint and had to backtrack a bit)
Return is through a mature maple and cedar forest. Some of the trees here are huge! Skirting the farm, you are likely to see sheep and cattle. On the day of this hike we also saw goats and turkeys!
There are toilets at the trailhead and also at the heritage farm
The Retreads Hiking Club gives this hike an AVA rating of 2C.
Looking for a hike in the Cowichan Valley? Or, looking for hiking companions? Google "Retreads Hiking Club CVRD".
Waypoints
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Car park
Information point
Intersection
26 ft
Go right here (we didn't)
We lost the coast trail for a bit here and had to return to this point
Risk
26 ft
Warning sign
We went a little further past this point and found that the trail was not any more rugged than what we had already experienced. It probably changes to "rugged" further on.
Intersection
52 ft
Go right (and then come back)
This is the turn to go back around the other side of the farm. We went past this a short way to a nice spot for lunch.
Picnic
Provisioning
Waypoint
62 ft
Heritage farm buildings and the friendly turkeys (toilets too!)
There are good interpretive signs here explaining the history and significance of Ruckle Farm
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