Both full-time residents and summer cottagers are conscience about preserving what makes the village a unique place both to live and visit.

What makes Bayfield, ON special? First and foremost it is the people.

No where is this fact more evident than behind the rail fences that outline one of the village’s most prized green spaces: Pioneer Park.

Pioneer Park is a privately owned, public park which sits on the bluff overlooking the Bayfield River and Lake Huron. In 1945, visionary Lucy Woods Diehl, enlisted the aid of eight like-minded individuals - summer folk and permanent residents, Americans and Canadians - to purchase and preserve this last piece of undeveloped lakefront property. She also determined that the land should be owned and operated by an association, not by individuals, and thus the Pioneer Park Association was born. Generations since have worked to keep her vision alive and the space is celebrated each year with such fundraising events as the Pioneer Park Rummage Sale and the 5KM Fun Run, Walk and Roll. Weddings have also become an integral part of the park’s existence – after all, who wouldn’t want to say “I do” from such a vista? And then there is, of course, the sunsets…all the villages and towns which dot the west coast of Lake Huron seem to like to brag that at some time in their history National Geographic Magazine declared them to have one of the top 10 sunsets in the world and this village is no exception. How does Bayfield’s sunset rank? You’ll just have to join the pilgrimage to the park on a summer’s eve to judge for yourself.

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