Public Information Meeting
to explore plans for a MULTI-USE TRAIL from south of Teeswater to Dunkeld.   Meeting sponsored by Huron Shores ATV Club was held @ 7:00 p.m. upstairs at
Teeswater Town Hall 3 Clinton Street, Teeswater
Tuesday, March 15

It was impressive to see numerous atv operators and land owners at this meeting.   Ray Gilbert Executive Director, from the Bruce Grey Trail Network started the meeting off with a brief description of what the Huron Shores ATV Club was all about. 

 

President Jim Tilker and Trails Director John Frieburger of the Huron Shores ATV Club were also available to answer questions.

 

We’re here to share with you the plans for a multi-use trail from the Culross tracts of Bruce county forest--on the Turnberry-Culross road west of highway 4--north to hook up with the Bruce county rail trail at Chepstow road between Chepstow and Dunkeld.

The trail will travel through Bruce county forest, along open and unopened municipal roads and through private property.  When completed, the trail will be open for use by walkers and hikers, bicycles, horses and Atv’s carrying a valid provincial pass issued by the eastern Ontario trails alliance and the Ontario federation of Atv clubs.

 The municipalities of Brockton and south Bruce have passed bylaws permitting Atv use and permission for Atv use has been secured on the trail from the private landowner and the county of Bruce.

 To bring the trail up to the standards required by the various landowners, the Huron shores Atv club will undertake work that involves clearing, gravelling and fencing a parking lot in the Culross tract where it borders the Turnberry-Culross road.  Other work will involve installing culverts, gates to prevent travel by off-road trucks, installing risk management, speed and direction signs and installing a kiosk with a trail map in the parking or staging area.

 Cost of this work is estimated to be between $20,000 and $25,000 dollars and the Huron shores Atv club will pick up all of these costs.  The club is able to fund this project from its portion of trail permit sales.  The Huron shores Atv club carries $5 million trail liability insurance and will be responsible for a variety of trail maintenance and trail monitoring duties in cooperation with the county of Bruce and other landowners.