Caption Large Left Image: Smeatons Ravine with the Queenston Lewiston Bridge in the background, Caption Top Right Image: Smeatons Ravine, Caption Bottom Right Image: Smeatons Falls 

 

 

General Information

The Smeaton's Ravine, called a "Secret Fairyland" in a 1935 newspaper article by Albert H. Tiplin, is located on the Canadian shoreline opposite the Floral Clock in Niagara Falls.

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ecological

It is the site of an infant waterfall that began cutting a small gorge into the side of the existing St. David's Buried Gorge. The gorge of Smeaton's Ravine measures 152 meters long and 46 meters wide. The water fall was only 12 meters to the water down below. The water feeding this waterfall came from the Niagara River which was much wider at the time, and had a small branch flowing in from the west, adjacent to the Niagara Gorge. The creek has eroded back a total of about 500 feet from the edge of the Niagara Gorge to form Smeaton Ravine. The first falls has a drop of about 87 feet. It was followed by a series of rapids and a 40 foot falls and more rapids all the way to the Niagara River. The creek has a total drop of 88m (290 feet). The drainage area of the creek was destroyed by the construction of the Sir Adam Beck Power Plants and storage reservoir.