Enjoy a day surrounded by nature, right in the city: swimming, canoeing, hiking, fishing, and picnicking in a 177-hectare park.


Founded in 2001, the rare Charitable Research Reserve exists to preserve, intact in perpetuity, a 913-acre land reserve along the Grand and Speed Rivers. Located within the designated Blair-Bechtel-Cruickston Environmentally Sensitive Landscape, rare’s goal is to preserve the land for future generations by focusing on research, education, conservation, and ecological restoration.