The Backus trails bring many visitors annually to the area to see the many attractions found within the park. Among them is the prominent heritage village, reconstructed in the 1980’s.

Within this village is a museum built in 1967, two octagonal school houses, an operating flour mill and four original buildings of the Backhouse homestead. John Backhouse owned the land and built the mill in 1798.

In 1955 the family sold the land, mill and homestead to Big Creek Conservation Authority, now called the Long Point Region Conservation Authority. The Floodplain trail can be accessed on the north side of...