Ben Eoin Provincial Park Hemlock Grove

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Description: : This gallery is about a protected area in Canada, Wikidata item Ben Eoin Provincial Park (Q4885607). English: This is a small grove of hemlock trees along the Ben Eoin Provincial Park Trail. Ben Eoin Provincial Park is a small secluded park on an old farm against hardwood-covered hills in the community of Ben Eoin, Nova Scotia, on the south side of the East Bay of the Bras d'Or Lake, Cape Breton Island, Canada. This picnic and hiking park is managed by the provincial Department of Natural Resources and is situated on a heavily wooded 225 acres (91 ha) parcel of Crown land. The Ben Eoin Trail (2.2 kilometres (1.4 mi) return) starts at the Ben Eoin Provincial Picnic Park. A hiker’s sign indicates the trailhead in the park. A very nice steady hike that climbs along a well-worn path. It climbs uphill through large and old Birch and Beech Trees. The trail leads to a well cleared look-off of solid ground and large flat stone on a ridge of the East Bay Hills with a panoramic view of the East Bay of the Bras d'Or Lake 165 metres (541 ft) below. Date: 8 September 2014, 14:13:23. Source: Own work. Author: Ken Heaton. Camera location45° 57′ 30.67″ N, 60° 27′ 29.07″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 45.958519; -60.458076.