Lion's Head Provincial Park

Lion's Head Provincial Park
IUCN category Ia (strict nature reserve)

Location	Bruce County, Ontario, Canada
Nearest city	Lion's Head, Ontario
Coordinates	44°59′49″N 81°12′04″W / 44.997°N 81.201°W / 44.997; -81.201Coordinates: 44°59′49″N 81°12′04″W / 44.997°N 81.201°W / 44.997; -81.201
Area	5.26 km² (2.03 sq mi)
Governing body	Ontario Parks

Lion's Head Provincial Park is a nature reserve in Ontario, Canada, located near the town of Lion's Head on Georgian Bay. The park contains portions of the Niagara Escarpment and is noted for its glacial features, especially potholes.^[1] Part of the Bruce Trail runs through the park.

References

↑ Wake, Winifred Cairns (1997). A Nature Guide to Ontario. University of Toronto Press. p. 158. ISBN 9780802027559. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

Protected areas in Ontario

National parks	Bruce Peninsula Fathom Five Georgian Bay Islands Lake Superior Point Pelee Pukaskwa Thousand Islands

Provincial parks	Algonquin Bon Echo Finlayson Point French River Frontenac Killarney Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Lake Superior Polar Bear Quetico Sandbanks Sleeping Giant more...

Conservation areas	Boyd Claireville Cold Creek Guelph Lake Heber Down Kortright Centre Lake Laurentian Mer Bleue Mount Nemo Rattlesnake Point Spencer Gorge / Webster's Falls more...

UNESCO Biosphere Reserves	Georgian Bay Littoral Long Point Niagara Escarpment (including Cheltenham Badlands) Thousand Islands - Frontenac Arch Wasaga Beach

National Historic Sites of Canada	Central Experimental Farm Dundurn Castle Laurier House Massey Hall Montgomery's Tavern Osgoode Hall Parliament Rideau Canal Rideau Hall more...

Other areas	Ontario Greenbelt Ottawa Greenbelt Rouge Park

Continental glaciations

General

Landforms

Erosional

Depositional

Glacifluvial	Diluvium Esker Giant current ripples Kame Kame delta Kettle hole Outwash fan Sandur

North American
places

Canadian	Arrowhead Provincial Park, Ontario Big Rock (glacial erratic), Alberta Cypress Hills (Canada), Saskatchewan Eramosa River, Ontario Eskers Provincial Park, British Columbia Foothills Erratics Train, Alberta Lion's Head Provincial Park, Ontario Origin of the Oak Ridges Moraine, Ontario Ovayok Territorial Park, Nunavut

United States	Chippewa Moraine State Recreation Area, Wisconsin Coteau des Prairies, South Dakota Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin Glacial Lake Wisconsin, Wisconsin Glacial Lakes State Park, Minnesota Horicon Marsh State Wildlife Area, Wisconsin Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail, Idaho, Oregon & Washington Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, Wisconsin Ice Age Trail, Wisconsin Interstate State Park, Minnesota & Wisconsin Kelleys Island, Ohio Kettle Moraine State Forest, Wisconsin Lake Bonneville, Utah Lake Lahontan, Nevada Lake Missoula, Montana Mill Bluff State Park, Wisconsin Oneida Lake, New York Two Creeks Buried Forest State Natural Area, Wisconsin Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field, Washington Yosemite National Park, California

Eurasian and
Antarctic places

Time periods

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