![Devil's Punchbowl](https://ontarioconservationareas.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Devil_s-Punchbowl.jpg)
About This Area
The Devil’s Punchbowl is one of the Niagara Escarpment’s most amazing sights, created at the end of the last ice age by huge melt-water rivers that plunged over the Stoney Creek Escarpment, thus carving the Punchbowl and gorge. The Devil’s Punchbowl is the only area where one can view such a large vertical display of Ordovician and Silurian stratified rock – many different coloured rock layers of the Escarpment. From the lookout platform, there is a spectacular view of Stoney Creek and Hamilton Harbour, not to mention the view down into the seemingly bottomless gorge.
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