Trail Wise Newsletter - June 2, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click through for all the news.

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.  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 thank the Rideau Trail Association for posting a link to our resources on their partners page We appreciate your help!   Membership Appeal on Now      We are writing you from Ontario Trails Council to ask the Ontario trails community for their 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. Join or donate today!                        Ontario Trails Council support increases your club membership and your public 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 Member 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 in 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. Tell us when you are having an event in 2025 Event Notification 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!

 

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - May 26, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click through for all the news

 

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.  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. Join or donate today!                        Ontario Trails Council support increases your club membership and your public 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 Member 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 in 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. Tell us when you are having an event in 2025 Event Notification 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. Our website is renewed and updated weekly. Add your opinion. https://g.page/r/CQ9K9pdhHG6TEBM/

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - May 20, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click through for all this week's news.

 

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.  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

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - May 12, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click here for all the news.

 

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/

Ontario Trails Council - Trail Wise Newsletter - May 6, 2025. Trail News, Events, Advocacy and Membership! Join Today! Click to see all the news.

 

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/