Compass Gardens Credit River Mile Zero - Orangeville, ON
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jiggs11
N 43° 55.253 W 080° 04.987
17T E 573608 N 4863494
Stone cairn placed at the headwaters of the Credit River in Orangeville, ON.
Waymark Code: WMNA86
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 01/30/2015
Views: 2
Large mainly granite cairn located in Compass Gardens Park off Hwy 10 in Orangeville. The marker attached to the cairn indicates that this is Mile Zero of the 645 mile-long Credit River, which flows south into Lake Ontario.
Marker text reads:
COMPASS GARDENS
Mile Zero
The headwaters
of the Credit River flow
south from 'Mile Zero" over
103 km (64 mi) to meet Lake
Ontario at Port Credit.
It falls 332 M (1090 ft)
from this point.
The Credit River with all its
tributaries has over 1500 km
(930 Mi) of watercourses forming
a watershed of 950 sq km (376 Sq Mi)
Town of Orangeville Parks
June 30, 1998
Cairn Location: Compass Gardens park, west off Hwy 10 south of Orangeville.
Cairn Purpose: Other (please describe in description)
Type if different from above list: Headwaters of Credit River
Types of rock: medium sized brocken rock, mainly granite.
Cairn Condition: 
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