Ontario Trails News - 5 great places to ski in Durham

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Five places to cross country ski in Durham

Long Sault Conservation Area

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CLARINGTON -- Sue Duncan hit the cross-country ski trails with her family at the Long Sault Conservation Area. January 19, 2014.

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DURHAM -- Motorists may disagree, but those who enjoy strapping wood to their feet and then sliding around the countryside are waiting with bated breath for the snow to start falling.

There are plenty of places in Durham Region where someone can channel their inner Scandinavian and fill their lungs with cold air while cross country skiing. Here are five locations in the region to partake of this winter exercise.

1. Dagmar Ski Resort

This popular Uxbridge resort is a winter wonderland, offering not only cross country skiing, but downhill skiing as well. Those new to the sport can rent equipment and take lessons. The resort offers a variety of passes -- individual, family, 10-day and single day.

2. Ganaraska Forest

The Ganaraska Forest Centre has it all. There are more than 35 kilometres of groomed and track-set trails for the novice and advanced skier, and the trails will challenge all skiers. The forest isn’t in Durham, but on the border with Northumberland, on Cold Springs Camp Road, north of Thertell Road.

3. Long Sault Conservation Area Port Perry 18 km 2/5

The Long Sault Conservation Area is in northern Clarington, just down the road from the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. There are 18 kilometres of trails for beginners, intermediate and advanced skiers. It should be noted the trails are not groomed. Also, the trails are multi-use, so skiers and hikers could be on the trail at the same time. It’s at 9293 Woodley Rd, off of Regional Road 20, near the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

4. Greenwood Conservation Area Ajax 6 km

Country right next to the city. Anyone wanting to try six kilometres of skiing won’t find a better place. Ontario Trails gives a two out of five for degree of difficulty. There is no place to rent skis, so anyone wanting to go will have to bring their own.

5. Trans-Canada Trail Claremont 20 km 2/5

It’s on Regional Road 5, east of the Hamlet of Claremont in north Pickering. There are 20 kilometres of trails and according to Ontario Trails, they carry a degree of difficulty of two out of five.

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Two tarts beat as one: Tasting event aims to end Southern Ontario pastry war

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The Globe and Mail

Published Wednesday, Aug. 07 2013, 9:30 PM EDT

Last updated Saturday, Aug. 10 2013, 8:03 AM EDT

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It was a sticky situation: two Southern Ontario regions jostling over butter tart tourism. A lawyer was even called in.

But the bitter rivalry between the Butter Tart Trail of Wellington North and the Kawarthas-Northumberland Butter Tart Tour has sweetened. The pair is now teaming up for a one-day tart-tasting event in Toronto.

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“We’ve really made an attempt to make this a collaborative effort,” said Karen Theriault, executive director of regional tourism for the Kawarthas area.

The Aug. 15 event was an easy sell to Wellington North.

“Butter tarts are an Ontario quintessential dessert,” said April Marshall, tourism and marketing manager for Wellington North. “We felt it was better to make a positive out of this situation instead of getting wrapped up in controversy back and forth.”

The Kawarthas-Northumberland Butter Tart Tour, started this year, had raised the ire of Wellington North, whose 30-kilometre tart trail was launched seven years ago. Wellington North was worried the competing tart attraction would hurt its tourism and bakeries. The regions, both north of Toronto, are about 180 kilometres apart.

Wellington North turned to a lawyer to issue a cease-and-desist letter to the tart tour, contending it infringed on its trademarked Butter Tart Trail. As a result, Kawarthas-Northumberland was added to the tour’s name, easing tension between the two regions.

They’ll each showcase their buttery desserts at the Toronto event, which will also include tarts from the town of Midland and Tartistry, a west Toronto bakery playing host to the tasting. Midland is home to the Best Butter Tart Festival. Indeed, many communities and bakers have laid claim to having the best tarts.

“Butter tarts are certainly something that no matter where you’re travelling in the province, you’re going to come across a bakery or two or three or more that are making butter tarts,” noted Rebecca LeHeup, executive director of Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance.

The tourism alliance is co-organizing the tart event. Ms. LeHeup believes butter tarts could become to Ontario what beef is to Alberta, lobster to Nova Scotia, poutine to Quebec. The earliest published Canadian recipe for butter tarts is from Barrie, Ont., dating back to 1900.

“Why not, in search for our culinary identity, latch onto the butter tart?” Ms. LeHeup proposed.

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As the document is far from a finished product, I would encourage you to take the time to comment on this proposed strategy.  Feedback on the new strategy is being accepted up until January 29, and is an important aspect of the drafting process . This input will help the province to put forward a new cycling strategy that best meets the needs of Ontarians, and will be most effective at making cycling safer and more enjoyable in the Province of Ontario.

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Norm Miller, MPP

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