Escarpment Magazine

Escarpment Magazine Your link to local style, culture and recreation! Escarpment Magazine is the original lifestyle publication in Southern Georgian Bay.

A community favorite for over 30 years, Escarpment Magazine is your local link to style, culture and recreation.

Holiday hosting, made easy 🍽️The Pottery Alpine Restaurant at  is offering a Turkey To Go service Dec 24 & 25. All the c...
12/17/2025

Holiday hosting, made easy 🍽️
The Pottery Alpine Restaurant at is offering a Turkey To Go service Dec 24 & 25. All the comfort and tradition of a classic holiday meal, without the hours in the kitchen.

Visit bluemountain.ca for details and pre-order information. Enjoy a little more time together… and a little less time cooking.

Calling all photographers 📢 we’re on the hunt for our Winter Aftershot! Share your best snowy scene and tag  or email us...
12/10/2025

Calling all photographers 📢 we’re on the hunt for our Winter Aftershot! Share your best snowy scene and tag or email us at [email protected] for your chance to be featured in our upcoming issue and win a gift card to a local restaurant.

Here’s a look at our Autumn/Early Winter Aftershot winner by Serena Kelly of the Sweepstakes shipwreck in Fathom Five Marine Park.

Show us winter through your lens!

Snow day! ☃️❄️👏
11/27/2025

Snow day!
☃️❄️👏

Its comfort-food season, and our latest Epicure feature brings all the warmth. Executive Chef Jesse Bell of Gustav Choph...
11/21/2025

Its comfort-food season, and our latest Epicure feature brings all the warmth. Executive Chef Jesse Bell of Gustav Chophouse and Bar shares three seasonal favourites: velvety roasted butternut squash and maple soup, fall-off-the-bone braised lamb shank, and a classic sticky toffee pudding served warm with rich toffee sauce.

Photographed by Clay Dolan, these dishes celebrate the flavours of the season — delicious, comforting, and perfect for chilly days ahead.

Find the full recipes in our Autumn/Early Winter issue.

When fiery colour meets a dusting of November snow… a quiet reminder that winter is waiting in the wings. Who’s ready?
11/12/2025

When fiery colour meets a dusting of November snow… a quiet reminder that winter is waiting in the wings. Who’s ready?

Today, we pause to remember. To honour those who served and sacrificed. Communities across our region are holding Rememb...
11/11/2025

Today, we pause to remember. To honour those who served and sacrificed.

Communities across our region are holding Remembrance Day ceremonies — check your local town or village website for service times and details, and take a moment—wherever you are—to reflect and give thanks.

Lest we forget.

When seasons collide 🍁❄️
11/10/2025

When seasons collide 🍁❄️

Enjoying this autumn view while we can… Snow is forecasted this weekend 🍂⛄️📸: Clay Dolan for
11/06/2025

Enjoying this autumn view while we can… Snow is forecasted this weekend 🍂⛄️

📸: Clay Dolan for

Happy Halloween 👻 happy birthday to our Publisher Clay Dolan, and GO BLUE JAYS!!
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 👻 happy birthday to our Publisher Clay Dolan, and GO BLUE JAYS!!

Drive the backroads and you’ll come across them without warning — a few moss-covered stones behind a fence, a limestone ...
10/30/2025

Drive the backroads and you’ll come across them without warning — a few moss-covered stones behind a fence, a limestone wall half-hidden in the trees, a wrought-iron gate opening into a patch of quiet ground…

“This was such an interesting story to research,” says Escarpment Editor-in-Chief Cara Williams. “Riding through the countryside on my bike, I often pass these small heritage cemeteries and can’t help but wonder about them. Some are tied to churches that have long disappeared, others to families whose names still echo in nearby towns. Each one is a reminder that the past lingers quietly in the landscape, holding the stories of settlers, pioneers, and communities that once thrived here.”

Read The Quiet Keepers in the current issue of Escarpment Magazine.

Words by Cara Williams
Photos by Clay Dolan

Available online or pick up your free copy at dozens of locations across Simcoe, Grey, and Bruce counties.

Pictured here;
Whites Methodist Heritage Cemetery, Ravenna.
Banks United Heritage Cemetery, Banks.
Bethesda Cemetery, Meaford.
Duxbury Cemetery, Meaford.

In our Autumn/Early Winter Artist Feature, Owen Sound painter Shirra Benson explores how landscape, memory, and material...
10/28/2025

In our Autumn/Early Winter Artist Feature, Owen Sound painter Shirra Benson explores how landscape, memory, and material come together on the canvas. Her textured, expressive oils are full of movement, colour, and feeling—each one alive with her love for the natural world.

From her early spark in Aurora to her creative life along the Escarpment, Shirra paints from the heart, capturing the quiet beauty and rhythm of the place she calls home.

Read Spirited Focus in our Autumn/Early Winter issue.

Story by Deena Dolan
Artwork by
Photo of Shirra by Clay Dolan

The countdown to winter starts now! Whether you’re shopping for new gear, or just soaking up the winter stoke, you’ll fi...
10/24/2025

The countdown to winter starts now! Whether you’re shopping for new gear, or just soaking up the winter stoke, you’ll find equipment, resorts, fashion, lifestyle, and all the spirit of the season at the Toronto Ski & Snowboard Show.

Friday, Oct 24 | 3–9 PM
Saturday, Oct 25 | 10 AM–6 PM
Sunday, Oct 26 | 10 AM–5 PM

See you there!

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Escarpment® Magazine has travelled an interesting road over its first three decades. Several name changes have occurred and the personality has matured, becoming far more sophisticated, growing in size and scope with increased readership and appeal. Gerry Baker was the founder of ‘The Collingwood Condo’ back in 1987. It was a small, 8 page, black and white, monthly periodical with a friendly, personal feel that was intended to keep readers in the know about everything that was going on up here in “Ski Country. It was the first of its kind in the region and was mailed directly to the city homes of Private Ski Club members who had second residences here. In 1989 when illness took Gerry’s life, his wife Joanne bravely kept it in the family, took the reins and ran the business successfully for the next 8 years, and eventually sold the business to Deena Dolan Findlay. Today, Georgian Bay Living – Escarpment® Magazine Inc. owns a reputation as one of the top publications in the region. The Escarpment® team, led by Publisher Clay Dolan have continued to capture the hearts of locals, visitors and part-time residents by constantly producing a publication stamped with unmatched style.

Escarpment® Magazine is your link to local style, culture and recreation in Simcoe, Grey and Bruce Counties. Beautifully illustrated, premium quality, Escarpment is an in-depth guide to Southern Georgian Bay Living from The Blue Mountains, Collingwood, Meaford Owen Sound and the surrounding villages including Thornbury, Clarksburg, Ravenna, Maxwell, Markdale, Wiarton, and the Bruce Peninsula. Our topics include recreation, health, fashion, homes & gardens, food, personalities, current events, history, arts & culture, nature, businesses, finances, real estate and more.

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