Trail Wise - January 5, 2026 Trail News and Events from all over Ontario and Canada.

 

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ONTARIO TRAILS COUNCIL NEWSLETTER - January 5, 2026 • National Trail Conference Go Fund Me - Send OTC to Winnipeg! • • Updates on Winter Activity Trails • Trail Projects  Updates • Member Services • 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.  Please consider supporting us through a donation or a membership. Thanks.   ONTARIO TRAILS NEWS   One of Canada's largest winter festivals is in Ontario - Toronto.com Toronto.com As Ottawa gears up for Winterlude, the festival promises a blend of cultural celebrations and outdoor adventures, drawing visitors to experience ...   'It's like seeing an old friend' as snow bears return to the Kichi Sibi Winter Trail - Ottawa Citizen Ottawa Citizen Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account; Share your thoughts and ...   Things to do in Sudbury, Jan. 3 to Jan. 6 Sudbury Star Hiking: January Hike Club, Rainbow Routes Association, Jan. 3, 2 p.m., 1127 Bancroft Dr.; www.rainbowroutes.com/events/january-hike-club. Article ...   Guelph folks still cycle in the winter, say advocates Guelph Mercury Cycling advocates celebrated in front of Guelph City Hall after winter ... Ontario skywatchers: Don't miss a total lunar eclipse, partial ... 'People just love it': Winter hiking a popular pastime along trails in Halton Hills The Hamilton Spectator ONTARIO NOW NEWSLETTER. Get our free new weekly newsletter.   Discover Dundas Valley: A Scenic Winter Retreat from Toronto - Travel And Tour World Travel And Tour World ... trails, perfect for hiking year-round. ... Tags: Dundas Valley Conservation Area, Dundas Valley trails, hiking trails Ontario, winter getaway from ... This Ontario spot turns into a Nordic-style winter escape with snowy cabins and pine forests Yahoo News Canada ... trails. Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve offers sparkling snowshoe and hiking trails which wind through snow-dusted pines. You can also enjoy ...   Ontario park lets you skate through a snowy forest lit with torches - blogTO blogTO arrowhead provincial park skating trail ontario. Ontario park lets you ... Guests can take part in different races based on skill level once the events ... McGeachie Cross Country Ski Trails Groomed Hi all, just a quick FYI from Carl, the Cross Country Ski Trails have been groomed at McGeachie. The trails are Blue,Green and part of Yellow. Hope you, family and friends have a chance to get out and enjoy the trails.   Local man dead after snowmobile collides with parked trailer - CityNews Ottawa CityNews Ottawa Closed trails make be unsafe and may not be snow-covered. Trail status ... Fans react to Canada's 2026 World Cup draw. Canada has learned who ...   The Rise of eBikes in Canada: A Quiet Revolution on Two Wheels - Programming Insider Programming Insider Mountain biking destinations across Canada are adapting to accommodate electric bicycle tourism. ... Post from ENGR NEWS WIRE. See more. Previous ...     Go Fund Us Help send 10 Ontario Trails Leaders to the National Trail Summit Ontario Trails Council is revitalizing our partnership with the Trans Canada Trail. Recent talks have gone exceedingly well between the OTC Board and leadership of the TCT. We thank the TCT for the opportunity to support our presence at the national event. Unfortunately due to a lack of resources we missed the World Trail Conference 2 years ago. We wish to have a presence in Winnipeg in support of those OTC members that Support the Trans Canada Trail in their communities. With your help we can help shape a better future for trails in Canada. Please donate to get us there. Thank you. The Ontario Trails Council works with Intact Public Entities on trail risk management   You can go on an epic 200-foot snow tubing run through Ontario town's main street - blogTO blogTO Memorial Park, from Kimberley Avenue to Mary Street and Rene Caisse Lane, will feature a skating trail ... Live your best life with blogTO's Top Events ...   For sale: Ursus men's snowshoes - The Millstone The Millstone In excellent condition used 1 time. Seratus zippered snowshoe case included. Asking $50.00 CASH Pickup – Almonte, Ontario Contact Pam 613-324-8937.   Winter camping season is back at Killbear Provincial Park - Parry Sound News Parry Sound News Several kilometres of trails for skating and snowshoeing will be available at the park ... Canada vs. Slovakia World Juniors 2026 quarterfinal ...   Ontario is home to one of the darkest stargazing spots on Earth and the views are breathtaking Yahoo News Canada ... Canada in 2018, making it the second provincial park to earn this ... hiking trails and canoe routes for more night sky viewing. The ...   ICE CLIMBING LESSONS - Sault Ste. Marie - SooToday.com SooToday.com ICE CLIMBING LESSONS. Paid Listing Superior Exploration, Adventure ... Canada · World. More. Live Webcams · Games and Comics · Spotlight · Jobs of the ...   Sault movie lovers, come watch a screening of this Oscar-winning thriller - SooToday.com SooToday.com The Reel Film Forum is bringing The Silence of the Lambs to the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre's Ranger Theatre on Jan. 17. OFA submission regarding the management of Ontario public lands Ontario Federation of Agriculture OFA has provided comments to the Ontario Government's Natural Resources Regulatory and Permit Reform Initiative: Unlocking Ontario's Economic ...   Public advised to avoid riverbanks and low-lying areas amid flood risk - StratfordToday.ca StratfordToday.ca The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority (UTRCA) reminds everyone to use extreme caution near all watercourses and to stay out of any flooded ...   Saviour of swans reminds us 'everything's connected' - Orillia News Orillia Matters I could pull at heartstrings when it mattered.” Lewis is now a board member of Trumpeter Swan Conservation Ontario, president of Garden Aurora, and a ...   I've learned a lot about myself on the slopes - PressReader PressReader Downhill skiing would be ... I'd only downhill skied a couple of times in high school, on tiny Ontario ski hills. I learned to cross- country ski ...   Explore nature free of charge on RRCA trails - Cornwall Seaway News Cornwall Seaway News ... Ontario's Step Into Nature mobile app, which makes it easy to discover over 300 Conservation Areas in Ontario,” adds Munafo. For more information ... Message for 2026: The outdoors can be a green roadway to mental health Niagara-on-the-Lake Local Canadian elections, Trump, Iran, Israel, Gaza, drones, Venezuela, borders, Epstein, Russia, Ukraine, cancel culture, artificial intelligence, 'left' ...   Things I don't want to see in mountain biking in 2026 - Canadian Cycling Magazine Canadian Cycling Magazine Watching crashes like Adolf Silva's Rampage disaster is brutal, not entertaining. In 2025 it felt like every other month brought news of another ...   "The Ontario Trails Council is a valuable advocate for Ontario’s recreational trail system, and Lorimer Publishing is delighted that they have chosen to spotlight our newly released book, Greenbelt Trails: the 36 best west of Toronto, from Oakville and Hamilton to Niagara and beyond by Lindsay Davies. We appreciate their support not only of Greenbelt Trails, but all the work they do to support the Trails community and users of recreational trails across the province." LORIMER PUBLISHING

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Ontario Trails 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.          .             Show your Ontario Pride! - we ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! A variety of styles and colours.  We thank Hike Ontario for posting the logo. RTO7 Bruce, Grey, Simcoe for posting information about our organization. We thank Ontario Equestrian for linking to our equine trail page! We appreciate your help!   Membership Appeal on Now    We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask you for your financial support.  We are a provincial charity with a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do.   We are seeking individuals and sponsoring activity organizations to join us.    We can help promote your efforts. Whether donations, grant seeking, activity events or community meetings why not use the power of Ontario trails to amplify your outreach and impact.   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.    OTC Membership Map - Are you 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.     Host A Mayor's Walk in 2025!   Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk on June 7, 2025. We are asking communities to share their enthusiasm for their local trails by inviting your mayor out for a walk on provincial trails day, June 7, 2025. 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. Sign up sheet. 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!  Ask for the event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca Thanks everyone!   Over 1.4 million unique visitors go to ontariotrails.ca each year. On the website we post trail events that are linked to one of our over 2650 trail listings. We have over 130,000 followers on social media. Send us your event we'll add it to our inventory of over 6,000 trail events taking place in Ontario Annually.  The OTC website has been renewed and updated for about 18 months. Tell us what you think. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/           TRAIL NEWS Well a lot of trail work is undertaken by Active Transportation Advocates, so we are pleased to provide a profile of some Ontario Traffic Council events on the horizon. OTC Active Transportation Committee Meeting Thursday, June 5 (Tentative Date – Invitation to be sent shortly) 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Lunch and Learn: Micro-Mobility from a European/UK Perspective Tuesday, May 20 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. In-Person Free Event   Andrew Maxwell, Director of Bergeron Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University is inviting OTC members to participate in a Lunch and Learn: Micro-Mobility from a European/UK Perspective in-person at the Bergeron Centre for Engineering Excellence, York University. Pizza lunch provided.   RSVP: Please confirm your attendance with Laura Del Fatti: delfatti@yorku.ca. Further info: Andrew Maxwell: bestmax@yorku.ca

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Ontario Trails Council - a provincial charity working for the development, use, management and preservation of trails and trail based activity. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Ontario Trails 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.          .               Show your Ontario Pride!  - we ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! A variety of styles and colours.    Membership Appeal on Now    We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask you for your financial support.  We are a provincial charity with a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do.   We understand that your organization is also involved in trails!   We can help with your efforts. 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.    OTC Membership Map - Are you 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.     Host A Mayor's Walk in 2025! Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk on June 7, 2025. We are asking communities to share their enthusiasm for their local trails by inviting your mayor out for a walk on provincial trails day, June 7, 2025. 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. Sign up sheet. 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!  Ask for the event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca Thanks everyone!   Over 1.4 million unique visitors go to ontariotrails.ca each year. On the website we post trail events that are linked to one of our over 2650 trail listings. We have over 130,000 followers on social media. Send us your event we'll add it to our inventory of over 6,000 trail events taking place in Ontario Annually.  The OTC website has been renewed and updated for about 18 months. Tell us what you think. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/

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Ontario Trails Council - a provincial charity working for the development, use, management and preservation of trails and trail based activity. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Ontario Trails 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.          .               Show your Ontario Pride - we ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! A variety of styles and colours.    Membership Appeal on Now   We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask you for your financial support.  We are a provincial charity with a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do.   We understand that your organization is also involved in trails!   We can help with your efforts. 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.    OTC Membership Map - Are you 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.     Host A Mayor's Walk in 2025! Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk on June 7, 2025. We are asking communities to share their enthusiasm for their local trails by inviting your mayor out for a walk on provincial trails day, June 7, 2025. 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. Sign up sheet. 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!  Ask for the event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca Thanks everyone!   Over 1.4 million unique visitors go to ontsriotrails.ca each year. On the website we post trail events that are linked to one of our over 2400 trail listings. We have over 130,000 followers on social media. Send us your event we'll add it to our inventory of over 6,000 trail events taking place in Ontario Annually.  The OTC website has been renewed and updated for about 18 months. Tell us what you think. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - April 28, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today!

 

Ontario Trails Council - a provincial charity working for the development, use, management and preservation of trails and trail based activity. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Ontario Trails 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.          .               Show your Ontario Pride - we ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! A variety of styles and colours.    Membership Appeal on Now We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask you for your financial support.  We are a provincial charity with a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do.   We understand that your organization is also involved in trails!   We can help with your efforts. 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.    OTC Membership Map - Are you 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.     Host A Mayor's Walk in 2025! Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk on June 7, 2025. We are asking communities to share their enthusiasm for their local trails by inviting your mayor out for a walk on provincial trails day, June 7, 2025. 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. Sign up sheet. We wish to thank the Town of Temiskaming Shores, Town of Plympton-Wyoming, City of Welland, City of Orillia, Oak Ridges Trail Association, Newmarket, Grimsby and Durham Region for expressing an interest in hosting a Mayor's Walk in 2025!  Ask for the event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca Thanks everyone!   Over 1.4 million unique visitors go to ontsriotrails.ca each year. On the website we post trail events that are linked to one of our over 2400 trail listings. We have over 130,000 followers on social media. Send us your event we'll add it to our inventory of over 6,000 trail events taking place in Ontario Annually.  The OTC website has been renewed and updated for about 18 months. Tell us what you think. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - April 22, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today!

 

Ontario Trails Council - a provincial charity working for the development, use, management and preservation of trails and trail based activity. Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.

Ontario Trails 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.          .               Show your Ontario Pride - we ask members to place our logo on your trail pages! A variety of styles and colours.    Membership Appeal on Now We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask you for your financial support.  We are a provincial charity with a volunteer Board and a membership that loves trails and trail activity as much as you do.   We understand that your organization is also involved in trails!   We can help with your efforts. 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.    OTC Membership Map - Are you 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.     Host A Mayor's Walk in 2025! Ontario Trails "Mayor's Walk" are open to OTC member organizations to act as hosts for a walk on June 7, 2025. We are asking communities to share their enthusiasm for their local trails by inviting your mayor out for a walk on provincial trails day, June 7, 2025. 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. Sign up sheet. We wish to thank the Town of Temiskaming Shores, Town of Plympton-Wyoming, City of Welland, City of Orillia, Oak Ridges Trail Association, Newmarket, Grimsby and Durham Region for expressing an interest in hosting a Mayor's Walk in 2025!  Ask for the event planning tool, email us at execdir@ontariotrails.ca Thanks everyone!   Over 1.4 million unique visitors go to ontsriotrails.ca each year. On the website we post trail events that are linked to one of our over 2400 trail listings. We have over 130,000 followers on social media. Send us your event we'll add it to our inventory of over 6,000 trail events taking place in Ontario Annually.  The OTC website has been renewed and updated for about 18 months. Tell us what you think. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/