Meet your guide, Catrina, at the Valley Waters Fossil and Information Centre to learn about the many fossil discoveries in the region. From there, drive to the walking trail that leads to the Moosehorn Creek Covered Bridge, a locality associated with the discovery of the Norton Fossil Forest, the oldest and largest fossil forest in Canada and one of the key geosites for Stonehammer UNESCO Global Geopark.

Proceed to hike the location, exploring sections of rock exposed along road cuts and old rail lines that contain hundreds of fossilised trees and other fossils associated with a forest that was growing near the equator over 300 million years ago.

Learn about this ancient ecosystem and how it got preserved, and discover evidence of how an earthquake led to the exquisite preservation of a unique tree found only here.

Your guide, Catrina is an enthusiastic and engaging geoscience educator and heritage interpreter with a passion for the region and an ability to bring stories of the Earth, preserved in stone, to life.