Getting Around Caledon

GO Transit operates two bus routes in Caledon;

* serving Bolton, Ontario from Nobleton Vaughan through Kleinburg and Woodbridge with the Etobicoke North GO Station on the Georgetown line.
* serving Orangeville and Brampton connecting with Brampton GO Station or Bramalea GO Station via Main Street/Highway 10.

Brampton Transit recently extended Route 30 Airport Road into the Tullamore Industrial Area within the Town of Caledon, with a total of six trips per day.

The town currently has no government-supported local public transit system. However, growing population prompted local resident Darren Parberry to start a trial bus service with two routes, called Métis Transit Limited, which ran briefly in 2006. Caledon Township also ran a commercial bus operations in 1999 under the name Caledon Transit Incorporated, but it ceased operations due to low ridership.

Transit services for the elderly, disabled, and infirm are provided by Caledon Community Services Transportation and Transhelp (run by Peel Region).

Taxi service is also available in the Bolton, Ontario area.

The highways in the municipality are:

* Mississauga Road or Peel Regional Road 1
* Airport Road or Peel Regional Road 7
* Hurontario Street or Highway 10
* Peel Regional Road 50 (formerly Highway 50)
* Highway 410 to Highway 10

Visiting Caledon Ontario

By T. Payne

Boasting a population of about 60 000 residents, Caledon can be found in the municipality of Peel, Ontario. Caledon is home to an emerging urban centre, but is primarily rural in nature.

Caledon has become known as a retreat for the rich. Many of Toronto’s wealthiest residents have country homes in Caledon. This list includes Norman Jewison and the Eaton family. Although not from Toronto, Elton John is also rumoured to have an estate in the area. It is also Canada’s safest town as rated by Maclean’s.

Caledon is not just an escape for the rich though, it has a wealth of attractions geared towards a more everyday lifestyle:

1. Cheltenham Badlands: “Badlands” is a geological term for an area of soft rock devoid of vegetation and soil cover that has become molded into a rolling landscape of rounded hills and gullies. This type of formation is not very prominent in Ontario, which makes this site very rare.

Areas like this are much more popular in Southwestern USA. This particular “badlands” is full of red hued rolling hills. It feels like you are on the surface of Mars. The badlands are a popular hiking destination that offer a beginner-intermediate level hike coming in at 11 km. It is also a very popular spot for photographers since this geology is so rare in Ontario.

2. Belfountain Conservation Area: No one will blame you for hyperbole if you called this one of the 519 area codes most beautiful places. This conservation area includes waterfalls, gorges and the stunning forks of the credit river area.

Where the badlands offers a beginners hike, Belfountain offers something for more experienced hikers. The trail includes a suspension bridge across a river gorge. Once across the bridge, the trail winds along the steep sides of the Escarpment. You definitely want steady feet for this one.

3. The Caledon Trailway: This trailway follows the path of an unused rail line that at one time stretched from Barrie to Hamilton. In 1989 Caledon purchase 35 km of the rail line for a trail. In 1995 that stretch became the first officially designated portion of the Trans Canada Trail.

Caledon’s (east) Stationlands Park has a Trans Canada Trail pavilion, which is also the first of it’s kind. Here you can check out commemorative panels, ponds and a developing arboretum. You can also peruse Caledon’s very own Walk of Fame!

It is no surprise that the three attractions I mentioned all involve nature. That is the allure of Caledon. It is a quick drive to Toronto, but it offers a completely different landscape. That is the reason why Torontonians seem to flock to the Caledon countryside. It is Canada’s most earth friendly city as well, that means the residents are keen on keeping Caledon a green retreat.

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