Located at the end of along, narrow peninsula that juts 6 miles into Lake Erie, Point Pelee National Park is for the birds. They come year-round, but particularly during the spring and fall migrations, when hundreds of species drop in here to rest up, feed, and prepare themselves for the long journey ahead.

The park’s Marsh is one of the last of its kind in the region. Most other Great Lakes wetlands and marshes have been drained and turned into arable land.  Pelee’s Marsh covers almost 70 per cent of the park, and can be accessed either by foot along the boardwalk or by canoe.

The rest of the park is forest and beach. Three distinct kinds of forest grow here: the Carolinian forest is dense and dank with clinging vines of wild grape, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy. The open fields are populated by the occasional red cedar, cottonwood, and honey locust or hop tree.

The park contains more than 70 species of trees, 27 species of reptiles, 20 species of amphibians, and 50 species of spiders and insects not found in any part of Canada.