A.J. Wagg Memorial Park “Wagg’s Woods” - Accessibility Trail, Fossil Trail and Escarpment Trails are now open!
September 2, 2021 Update
The 1/2 km Escarpment Trail is now open at AJ Wagg Memorial Park! This is such a beautiful trail and worth the hike. Please note that the trail dead ends and does not have a loop onto the Alvar Plateau yet but we wanted to have this trail section open for the September long weekend! Temporary signage is in place for the early opening. Please leave the park as you found it and enjoy!
AJ Wagg Memorial Park Trail Map
August 24, 2021 Update
A.J. Wagg Memorial Park (Wagg’s Woods) is now open! The lower section of the 42 acre Mindemoya park includes the new Accessibility Trail approximatley 1/2 km is perfect for those with mobility issues. The Fossil Trail approximately 1/2 km is also open to the public. The new trail head is on Forest and Thorne Streets. A designated ten car parking lot is on Thorne Street.
Temporary signage and some other temporary measures are up so the park can be enjoyed as summer dwindles and the fall colours begin.
and Alvar Trail are still under construction. Thank you for your conitnued patience.
Thank you to all the volunteers, personal and business donations coming in for the park. The levelling and installation of the screenings was carried out by James Millette Forestry (JMF). Volunteers worked hard prepping the trail pre and post enhancement stage clearing trails and installing edge protection.
View the new map!
Enhancement work:
Future plans also include creating a trail system to the upper part above the escarpment on the Alvar plateau which contains approximately 2/3 of the park area.
In 2020, the Municipality created a Trail Committee comprised of 5 residents and 2 council members. The new committees initial focus will be the enhancement of A.J. Wagg Memorial Park known as "Wagg's Woods." Updates will be provided as they become available. For any other questions please contact Central Manitoulin Community Development/Outreach Coordinator Marcus Mohr at 705-377-5726 or email centralecdev@amtelecom.net.
About the Park:
"Wagg's Woods" is a mostly undeveloped 42 acre park area located in Mindemoya, Ontario. The new trail head access point is at the corner of Forest and Thorne Streets. The park has some distinct topographical levels. The seasonal creek bed running diagonally through the lower portion of the park, that has many fossils to discover. Above that level is an accesibility trail system that runs below the ridge of the escarpment. The escarpment itself raises up about 95 feet to the top of the canopy and beyond that the alvar plateau!
Fall Colours
The fall of 2021 shows the park bursting with colour as shown in this drone footage video https://youtu.be/QF02ehjq8PM.
Wagg's Woods Plant Species
Species catologued so far:
| Herbaceous & other ground vegetation | |
| agrimonia, hooked | Agrimonia gryposepala |
| aster, calico | Aster lateriflorus |
| aster, flat-topped | Aster umbellatus |
| aster, panicled | Aster lanceolatus |
| baneberry, red | Actaea rubra |
| baneberry, white | Actaea pachypoda |
| basil, wild | Clinopodium vulgaris |
| beggar-ticks, nodding | Bidens cernua |
| bloodroot | Sanguinaria canadensis |
| bunchberry | Cornus canadensis |
| burdock, common | Arctium minus |
| buttercup, hooked | Ranunculus recurvatus |
| buttercup, kidney-leaved | Ranunculus abortivus |
| buttercup, tall | Ranunculus acris |
| cardinal-flower | Lobelia cardinalis |
| cohosh, blue | Caulophyllum thalictroides |
| coltsfoot | Tussilago farfara |
| coral-root, striped | Corallorhiza striata |
| dandelion | Taraxacum officinale |
| dogbane, spreading | Apocynum androsaemifolium |
| Dutchman’s breeches | Dicentra cucullaria |
| elderberry, eastern red | Sambucus racemosa ssp. pubens |
| fern, bulblet | Cystopteris bulbifera |
| fern, intermediate wood (Common or Glandular) | Dryopteris intermedia |
| fern, ostrich | Matteuccia struthiopteris |
| heal-all (self-heal) | Prunella vulgaris |
| helleborine | Epipactus helleborine |
| hepatica, sharp-lobed | Anemone acutilobia |
| Herb-Robert | Geranium robertianum |
| jack-in-the-pulpit | Arisaema triphyllum |
| leeks, wild (scapes) | Allium tricoccum |
| lettuce, white or wild (white rattlesnake-root) | Nabalus albus |
| lily, trout | Erythronium americana |
| lopseed, slender-spiked | Phryma leptostachya |
| meadow rue, purple (tall) | Thalictrum dasycarpum or T. pubescens |
| milkweed, common | Asclepias syriaca |
| moonseed vine | Menispermum canadense |
| nightshade, enchanter's | Circaea alpina or C. lutetiana |
| nipplewort | Lapsana communis |
| parsnip, cow | Heracleum lanatum |
| polypody, rock | Polypodium virginianum |
| Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot) | Daucus carota |
| rattlesnake-plantain, menzie’s (large western) | Goodyera oblongifolia |
| solomon’s-seal, false | Maianthemum racemosum |
| Solomon’s-seal, hairy | Polygonatum pubescens |
| speedwell, common | Veronia officinalis |
| spring beauty | Claytonia caroliniana |
| squirrel corn | Dicentra canadensis |
| St. John's-wort, common | Hypericum perforatum |
| starflower | Trientalis borealis |
| tansy, common | Tanacetum vulgare |
| toothwort, broad-leaved | Cardamine diphylla |
| toothwort, cut-leaved | Cardamine concatenate |
| trillium, nodding | Trillium cernuum |
| trillium, white | Trillium grandiflorum |
| violet, Canada | Viola canadensis |
| violet, dog | Viola conspera |
| violet, wooly blue | Viola sororia |
| violet, yellow forest | Viola pubescens |
| virgin's bowers | Clematis virginiana |
| water-horehound, cut-leaved | Lycopus americanus |
| water-horehound, tuberous (Northern Bugleweed) | Lycopus uniflorus |
| woodsorrel, common yellow | Oxalis stricta |
| Trees & Tall Shrubs | |
| ash, black | Fraxinus nigra |
| ash, red | Fraxinus pennsylvanica |
| ash, white | Fraxinus americana |
| aspen, largetooth | Populus grandidentata |
| aspen, trembling | Populus tremuloides |
| basswood | Tilia americana |
| birch, white | Betula papyrifera |
| birch, yellow | Betula alleghaniensis |
| cedar, eastern white | Thuja occidentalis |
| cherry, black | Prunus serotina |
| cherry, choke | Prunus virginiana |
| currant, black bristly | Ribes lacustre |
| dogwood, alternateleaf | Cornus alternifolia |
| elderberry, eastern red | Sambucas pubens |
| elm, white | Ulmus americana |
| fir, balsam | Abies balsamifera |
| hazel, beaked | Corylus cornuta |
| honeysuckle, fly | Lonicera canadensis |
| ironwood | Ostrya virginiana |
| leatherwood | Dirca palustris |
| maple, Manitoba | Acer negundo |
| maple, mountain | Acer spicatum |
| maple, sugar (hard) | Acer saccharum |
| oak, bur | Quercus macrocarpa |
| oak, red | Quercus rubra |
| serviceberry species | Amelanchier spp. |
| spruce, white | Picea glauca |
