LONG BEACH BROOK FALLS
Baxters Harbour, Kings County
N 45° 12.883 W 064° 32.477 
UTM: 20T E 378978 N 5007959

RIVER: Long Beach Brook

CLASS: plunge

SIZE: 30'

RATING: excellent (****)

TRAIL: woods road, some bush whacking

DISTANCE: 200m

HIKING TIME: 15 minutes

CONDITIONS: moderate

Geocache: none

NS Atlas Page: 46/Z1

NS topo map: 021H02 (Berwick)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: Take EXIT12 north off HWY101 towards the town of New Minas. Follow the New Minas Connector Rd 1.6km to the intersection, continuing straight on Cornwallis River Crossing. Continue straight 2km and continue straight as this road becomes Middle Dyke Rd as it crosses Belcher St. Drive 4.9km along this highway, turning left onto HWY341, then right again immediately (90m) onto the continuation of Middle Dyke Road. Continue 2.4km, turning right onto HWY221, which is signed for Baxters Harbour.Follow this road 1.1km, turning left onto Black Hole Road, again signed for Baxters Harbour. Follow Black Hole Rd about 5km and turn left onto Gospel Woods Road. Drive 2.2km, and turn right onto Long Beach Road. Follow this road 4.1km, watching for an overgrown ATV trail on your left, just past where Long Beach Brook passes underneath the road. Park off the side of the road.

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: follow the trail to the brook (about 150m) and head downstream. When you reach the falls, the easiest way to the base is to move along the top of the cliff to your right, picking your way down into the deep ravine where you can. Stay to the left side, along the cliff wall, to avoid the rotting steps from the old trailer above, they are not safe by any means.

These falls drop over a twenty - twenty-five foot cliff, spilling onto a shelf just above the plunge pool. You can approach and get behind these falls by picking your way close in along the base of the cliff. 

HARTVILLE RAVINE FALLS
Hartville, Hants County
44N56.945  64W01.805
20T E0418742 N4977810

RIVER: St. Croix River
CLASS: cascades, rocky canyon
SIZE 12', 10'
RATING: average (***)

TRAIL: old rail line, downstream rockhopping
DISTANCE: 800m
HIKING TIME: 1 hour
CONDITIONS: difficult

NS Atlas Page: 57/Z1
NS topo map: 021A16 (Windsor)

DRVING DIRECTIONS: take Exit off HWY101, westbound towards Windsor,1.4km and turn left onto Hartville Road. Follow this ro.

ad 1.7km to a level train crossing immediately before a sharp left-hand turn in the road. Park past the tracks well off the road. 

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: follow the tracks towards the trestle, and make your way down to the forest floor on the right hand side where convenient. Bushwhack your way through open woods to the edge of the river. The top falls are just downstream of the train bridge above you.

CAUTION! even though this is a disused portion of the rail lines in canada, there are no rails alongside the bridge above and a fall here, into the canyon, would be catastrophic. Use common sense when visiting this site.

The top cascade at the head of the ravine is a pleasant twin fall, about 12 feet high all told, which drops into a long stillwater pool that runs the length of the canyon leading downstream. Make your way along the right hand side of the stillwater, climbing up and over a protrusion of bedrock halfway along, or make your way to the ravine edge above and hike along the animal trails there to the lower falls, another small seet of cascades as the river turns around the dominating upthrust of bedrock that forms the far side of the ravine here.

Wonderfully pictureseque, these falls, although small in stature, are large on location. A perfect landscape to take your breath away

BELCHER BROOK FALLS
Martock, Hants County
45N57.097  64W07.803
20T E0410860 N4978197

RIVER: Belcher Brook
CLASS: slide (steep)
SIZE 12', 15'
RATING: average (***)

TRAIL: woods trail
DISTANCE: 800m
HIKING TIME: 1 hour
CONDITIONS: moderate

NS Atlas Page: 57/Y2
NS topo map: 021A16 (Windsor)

DRVING DIRECTIONS: take Exit5 off HWY101, westbound, towards Windsor and Three Mile Plains. Follow this road, HWY14, to its conclusion about 1km along. (Across from the gas station) Turn left onto HWY1 and drive 650m to Three Mile Plains Cross Road. Turn right onto this and drive 850m to its intersection with Windsor Back Road. Turn right again, and drive down Windsor Back Road 2.8km to a dirt road on your left. Pull down this and drive down to the big old trees by the pond. Park here.

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: Follow the road around the small quarry to a fork in the trail about 75m along. Turn left along this trail that runs along the powerlines, and follow it to where it crosses Lebreau Brook, an easy fording. Continue along this old dirt road, trending to the right (up the hill) when you come to the first fork in the trail. (The left fork drops down to the power lines and peters out quickly) 

When you come to the power lines again, as you arrive at the bottom of the hill you just climbed over, continue on a path along the edge of the powerlines to your right. Follow this trail to an inactive slate quarry. Cross in the woods along the high side above the quarry to Belcher Brook, which abuts the workings. 

The first falls have a small 2 foot plunge into a charming slide of about ten feet in height. Approximately 100m upstream the main falls drop over a twisting slide into a number of small cascades. I feel that these falls should be considered "At Risk" due to human intervention in the nearby area. The quarry is excavated below the brook level and a break in the levee between brook and quarry would harm this ecosystem irreparably.

GIVANS BROOK FALLS
N 45° 07.002 W 064° 47.062 
UTM: 20T E 359650 N 4997463 

RIVER: Givans Brook

CLASS: steep cascade

SIZE: 85`

RATING: excellent (****)

TRAIL: woods path

DISTANCE: 100m

HIKING TIME: 5 minutes

CONDITIONS: moderate

Geocache: GC1A9TT (archived)

NS Atlas Page: 46/X3

NS topo map: 021H02 (Berwick)

photo by Cheryll Kelley (2014)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: from Kentville, take HWY12 (Chester Ave.) south 3.6km, and turn right onto HWY101. Follow the freeway 17.7km to Exit 15, turning north onto HWY360, towards Harbourville. Drive 8.5km along this road, and turn left onto Barley St. Drive 600m down this road, parking at the obvious pull off where Givans Brook crosses under the road.

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: follow the path on the left side of the brook into a small ravine next to the falls, and make your way to the base of these impressive cascades. The Faribault/Fletcher maps for the Geological Survey of Canada list these falls at 100 feet, but my measurements pegged it at closer to 85 feet. No matter the size, when the water is running through the brook, you will be awed. 

The viewpoint for these falls is directly below the falls, making them one of the more accessible falls in the area. Further falls listed at 20' and 15' are listed further downstream but I have not had opportunity to get to them yet. 

HOLLOW BROOK FALLS
Five Mile Plains, Hants County
44N57.151 64W04.196
20T E415603  N4978232

RIVER: Hollow Brook
CLASS: stepped cascade
SIZE: 12'
RATING: average (***1 /2)

TRAIL: bushwhacking, upstream
DISTANCE: 300m
HIKING TIME: 30 minutes
CONDITIONS: moderate

Geocache: none

NS Atlas Page: 57/Z1
NS topo map: 021A16 (Windsor)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: from Windsor, take Exit5, west, off HWY101 towards Three Mile Plains. Drive about 1 km to the intersection with HWY1 , turn left. Drive 4km and turn left onto Green Street. Follow this road approximately 1 km to where Hollow Brook crosses under the road. Park off the road.

Trail description. Follow the brook upstream, crossing over this small watercourse as neccesary, approximately 300m to the falls.These are very attractive falls, the hike in is thru a mature forest.
Along the way, a larger seasonal tributary also falls into the stream.

OLD SANDFORDS BROOK FALLS
West Gore, Hants County
45 N 04.994 63 W 47.893
20T N437180 E4992507

RIVER: Old Sandfords Brook
CLASS: steep cascades
SIZE: 15', 30'
RATING: nice (***)

TRAIL: ATV trail, upstream
DISTANCE: 2.2km
HIKING TIME: 1 hour
CONDITIONS: moderate to difficult

Geocache: none

NS Atlas Page: 48/X4
NS topo map: 011E04 (Kennetcook)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: take Exit 5 off HWY101, east, onto HWY14. Follow this road 8.6km to the village of Brooklyn, and turn left (up the hill) at the war memorial in the middle of the road to remain on HWY14, for 750m. Continue straight at the next intersection (next to the Petro Canada service station, onto HWY215 for 1km and turn right onto HWY236 (towards Kennetcook) and follow this road 19.8km to the community of Clarksville. Turn right towards HWY202/Gore, and fo202llow this road 1.7km. Turn right again onto McInnis Rd/Hwy202. Park off the shoulder of the road in the available space next to the first bridge, about 100m along.

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: Pass thru the gate in the fence onto the old road crossing the field headed upstream. Follow this road 330m to a fork in the tral below an old hunters cabin. Follow the left hand fork, along McInnis Brook. Follow this ATV trail to the confluence with Old Sandford Brook, a tributary coming in from the right. Follow this stream along a more rugged ATV track, making several stream crossings, to the mouth of the ravine and continue hiking upstream, hopping back and forth when the shale walls of the canyon abut the brook.

The larger falls along this brook flow in from a tributary over the steep ravine slope on the right at 45N05.029 63W47.983 and the main falls along this brook are upstream along the ravine at the posted coordinates.

The main falls are about 15' high with a small pool and elbow about halfway down on its left hand side. Ascent of these falls is difficult. There are a set of nice cascades about 150m upstream of the main falls, and are most easily reached by climbing in switchbacks up the ravine on the left side and following the mature woods with a fairly clear understorey upstream to where the upper cascades can be seen. An easier scramble down to the stream here is possible to get closeer to the base of these to take photos.

BLACK HOLE BROOK FALLS
Baxters Harbour, Kings County
45 N 13.965 64W 29.291
20T N383224 E5009883

RIVER: Black Hole Brook
CLASS: steep cascades
SIZE: 15'
RATING: average (***)

TRAIL: old road, upstream
DISTANCE: 500m
HIKING TIME: 1 hour
CONDITIONS: rugged

Geocache:n none

NS Atlas Page: 46/Z1
NS topo map: 021H02 (Berwick)

DRIVING DIRECTIONS: take Exit11, North onto HWY258. Follow this highway 11km to the village of canning, turning left onto HWY221. Continue another 3.9km and follow to the right onto Black Hole Rd. Drive 10.4km to a sharp left had turn and park off the road here.

TRAIL DESCRIPTION: foloow the well defined tril to the left into the woods. Hike down this trail to the stream crossing. Downstream (to the left) is found Haunted Falls, a spectacular 60 plunge into Black Hole Harbour. Turning upstream (to the right) and hiking up the brook itself will take you to these pleasant falls. The upper fall was not accessed beyond, owing to the huge, sheer cliffs that surround it. The road that continues along from where you crossed the brook goes up the hill, and a short but steep bushwhack at the top of the hill into the ravine will reward with these falls as well