Devil's Punchbowl Conservation Area

The Devil’s Punchbowl is one of the Niagara Escarpment’s most amazing sights, created at the end of the last ice age by huge melt-water rivers that plunged over the Stoney Creek Escarpment, thus carving the Punchbowl and gorge.

From the lookouts, one can see the many different coloured rock layers of the Escarpment.  The Punchbowl is the only area where one can view such a large vertical display of Ordovician and Silurian stratified rock.  Some of the layers include Queenston Formation red shale, Cabot Head grey shale, limestone and shale dolomite.

The conservation area has a viewing platform that affords excellent panoramas of The City and Stoney Creek.

Source:
Hamilton Conservation Authority➹