Thank-you to all the volunteers and voluntolds that made tonight's illumination possible, and to all the people that came out to enjoy it, thank-you as well for the cash donations and food for the food bank, it will be appreciated that is for sure. We handed out free maps, pens, postcards and pamphlets as well. Billy Green was lit all in green tonight, wow he was a … [Read more...]
St.Patricks Day Waterfall illumination
Our annual St.Patrick's Day waterfall illumination will be today at 8pm at ...well were else but Billy Green waterfall!!!! Billy Green will be lit up in green, rumour has it that some Leprechaun's from the nearby woods might even show up... The waterfall is roaring right now and access is good. Wear a set of boots though, and bring your camera. Parking is on the … [Read more...]
It’s March Break Waterfall Week in Hamilton!
So with March Break upon us what are you going to do with the kids!!!??? Well how about getting them out to all our waterfalls in Hamilton, lets make this a contest, who can see the most amount of waterfalls over March Break!? So, here is how it will work... Take a picture with the family and tweet it, facebook it, Instagram it, etc... and use the hash tags of #hamont … [Read more...]
Lower Westcliffe Falls is roaring!
Here is a picture taken yesterday of lower westcliffe falls in full flow, its an easy one to go see just head to the page and take a look. Many thanks to Patrick Barry for this great picture! … [Read more...]
Great Falls illumination Saturday Night at 7pm
Saturday Night at 7 pm at Great Falls we will once again be performing a winter waterfall illumination!!! This one we are planning as we have done before by lighting her up from behind :) Lights will go on at approx 7pm till 8pm. Volunteers, Voluntolds, and Voluntells please show up if you can help out!!!! Rumour has it the Minions will come as well, maybe the Gnomes … [Read more...]
New Video Player now online
We have started to upload videos to our new Vimeo account, you can get to it by following the "V" on our front page were all the other social media icons are. Vimeo has no ads and the quality looks amazing!!! Here is the direct link as well, hope you enjoy the videos :) https://vimeo.com/cityofwaterfalls … [Read more...]
The last of our winter waterfall illuminations
With the big melt coming next week, this will mark the end of our frozen waterfall illuminations for the year of 2015. Its been a great year, we never got as many in as we would have liked because of the dangerous temps though. We are looking at doing a small one Wednesday night, we will see what the weather looks like in the morning and let you all know time, place, … [Read more...]
Ice Climbers at Buttermilk Falls
This past weekend Jay Poel took this great shot of ice climbers climbing the face of Buttermilk Falls in Hamilton. … [Read more...]
Hamilton Street Railway to include waterfall information on their website
One of the biggest questions we get is " What bus do I take to get to the waterfalls?..." Well I am very happy to report that after talking with HSR staff that they will include the waterfall information on their website so Hamiltonians and tourists can find the waterfalls much easier. We will be updating our website with google maps complete with GPS coordinates, and … [Read more...]
Our new website is complete!
After almost a 3 week build our new website is complete!!! Google has now crawled and indexed their servers with our new information as well, but remember always use our landing page as a starting point, do not use a search engine as the old information with still be on servers for months to come. Work is now done on the transition of all pages over to the new format, we … [Read more...]