Hello Hikers 🙂 The Town of Goderich is running a recreational needs survey until October 4. If you could take a few minutes to complete it with trails in mind, we’d appreciate it. Here’s info about the project: Community Recreational Needs Assessment – Town of Goderich Here’s the link tomore…
Trail Closures for Hunting Season
Please be aware of where and when the closures are, and adjust your hiking plans accordingly. November 1 – 7 and November 29 – December 5 : Entire Maitland Trail closed for gun hunting October 1 – December 31 : Maitland Trail closed between 7.9 km and 10.5 km formore…
Trail Talk 188 September 22nd 2021
Although the big damage from Tuesday’s August 7th storm was north of the Maitland trail, there were a lot of branches down on the section from River Line to Cherrydale road, though most were easy to clear off the trail except for  a significant windfall at about 25.5 km inmore…
Trail Talk 187 September 15th 2021
From Monday August 30th to Thursday September 2nd  I was staying at Tobermory and exploring a little bit of the Bruce Trail. The big difference about hiking there was that virtually everywhere it is paid parking from $3 an hour for a maximum of 3 hours in town, $11.90 inmore…
Trail Talk 186 September 8th 2021
On Friday August 27th thanks to Cristen Watt’s tender care 35 snapping turtle were hatched from the eggs recovered from the GART. They were launched into the pond just East of CP Line on Friday afternoon by Brian McCulloch and Cristen Watt. Near the launch site we dug up amore…
Trail Talk 185 September 1st 2021
On Friday August 20th I hiked the Riverbend loop, there was a bit of a puddle at the gate on Black Hole road and a puddle on the trail at the edge of the pond, both were avoidable. Unfortunately I lost my ball cap, so on Saturday I returned, butmore…
Trail Talk 184 August 25th 2021
On Friday August 13th we hiked from Morris Tract to Benmiller. On walking up Benmiller Line we saw a Great Blue Heron at the pond. It did not fly off as was we crossed the bridge, which is very unusual for herons in our area. It was the first timemore…
Trail Talk 183 August 18th 2021
We had a good hike on Friday on the Maitland Trail section near Bishop’s Road. At the first clearing we saw a large butterfly, that looked as though it would fly off into  the forest, but instead settled at the edge for a photograph – a Giant Swallowtail. (The featuredmore…
Trail Talk 182 August 11th 2021
By the time you read this, the Maitland Trail Bioblitz will be well under way.  I have made a few submissions and have found that it has been easy to find over 30 submissions within an hour on the trail. Details can be found on the Maitland Trail Website andmore…
