It is located within the Lynde Creek drainage basin; it is a part of the provincially significant Heber Down Wetland Complex.

[1] The area is composed of two types of broad terrain units: a valley formed by the creek and the Glacial Lake Iroquois beach.

Due to impervious layers underneath, high water table resulted in formation of large areas of swamps and marshes.

At places where it cuts across the sandy Lake Iroquois beach, groundwater seeps occur, providing an ecological niche for plants growing on the valley's walls.

Local inhabitants interpreted the noises produced by the thieves and horses in a superstitious way: they assumed that the Devil was holding court there.