Trail Wise Newsletter - June 9, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click on title link for all the news

 

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Ontario Trails Council is a charity, led by a volunteer board of directors, that promotes the use, management, development, and preservation of trails and trail-based activities in Ontario.      Provincial Trails Day Mayor's Walks   Some of the results have started to flow in. A number of communities held walks on Provincial/International Trails Day. We will provide links to other walks and trail celebrations that took place June 7, as well as throughout the year. The Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" events are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk in 2025. Tell us when you are having an event in 2025 Event Notification Sheet. With trails in 100's of Ontario Communities this is a great way to showcase your local support while enabling all the Mayor's and their trail friends to get out for a celebration of trails.   We'd like to acknowledge the Town of Grimsby who sent in this photo. It looks like there was a good turn out across Ontario. Ruth Moffat wrote "We had a lovely hike today for the first Mayor’s Walk. Our Mayor, Jeff Jordan, is 3rd from left." Thanks Mayor! Temiskaming Shores celebrated all the dads in our life, with a yummy brunch at the Cobalt Miners Tavern following the event. There was a run or walk 1k, 2k, 5k, 10k or 15k on roads around Cobalt Lake. Afterwards, folks joined us at the Cobalt Miners Tavern for a light brunch! All events started at 9:30am.    The Moraine Adventure Relay is a team challenge race sponsored by the Oak Ridges Trail Association in Ontario, Canada. The Full Relay is a 160 km across the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail or participants entered for a Half Relay 80 km. Participants had the opportunity to explore the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail. Send us details about your Trail Day Celebration!  A few of the Trails Celebrations around Ontario: Oxford County Trails Council            Hamilton Conservation          Bruce Trail Conservancy.                  Niagara Trails Committee  Casque Isles Trail, Terrace Bay               North Bay                                          Friends of Laurier Woods                 Kawartha Conservation                    Quinte Conservation             Windsor Recreation and Leisure Services.    Kincardine Trails  Gatineau Park     Trail Workers of America (shared our post from BTC) Thunder Bay Hiking Group.               Niagara Bruce Trail Club Did you Know? Please search 'Trails Day' on Facebook, Ontario Trails provided 80% of Canadian messaging content about trails day.         Ask for the Mayor's Walk event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca We wish to thank the Town of Temiskaming Shores, Town of Plympton-Wyoming, City of Orillia, Oak Ridges Trail Association, Newmarket, Grimsby and Durham Region for expressing an interest in hosting a Mayor's Walk in 2025!         Add Our Logo We ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! We can provide variety of styles and colours.  We thank Hike Ontario RTO7 Bruce, Grey, Simcoe  Ontario Equestrian and the Rideau Trail Association for posting our logo or a link to our site and social media. We appreciate your support!   Be a Friend We are a trail community made by up of clubs, municipalities, user federations, health units, and many other types of local organizations and individuals. We have a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do. Join or donate today!   Increase your membership   We regularly share the stories of trails on social media, we amplify your local efforts to develop, manage and preserve trails. Our 6 point program for trails in Ontario is better fulfilled with your support. Support us and we'll work to increase your membership.     Get on the map!   Ontario Trails Council members span the entire province and over 24 different uses. We are the only trail organization in Ontario filtering trail best practices on multi-use trails, promoting the safe use by all trail users across all activities.   We also share stories through our weekly newsletter, ‘Trail Wise’ and on our blog.   We hope you would help us through a donation or join the 170 other member organizations supporting our work in Ontario, for more and better trails in Ontario. With your support, we can achieve this one trail at a time, making the case for all of Ontario's trails, together.