MAPS

The Guelph Hiking Trail Club has built and maintains 3 trails:

• Radial Line Trail--33 km from Guelph to the Bruce Trail at Limehouse, generally along an abandoned rail bed through the valley of the Eramosa River and its tributary, the Blue Springs Creek
• Speed River Trail--17 km from Guelph to Cambridge along the Speed River
• Kissing Bridge Trail--we maintain the 15 km section from Guelph to West Montrose along an abandoned CPR rail bed. (Other partners maintain the remainder of this trail to Millbank. There are plans to continue the trail along the rail bed all the way to Goderich.)

These main trails and their related side trails currently add up to approximately 80 kilometers of trails. Main trails are marked by orange blazes and side trails are marked by blue blazes.

Private landowners have granted us the privilege of having a footpath through their property. Please walk only on the marked routes, take nothing but pictures, and leave nothing but footprints.

Hiking is fun! We invite you to come and enjoy our trails.

TRAIL MAPS

Coloured trail maps are published in our Guelph Hiking Trail Club Handbook.

The Handbook begins with a fold-out page giving an overview of the entire trail system (Radial Line Trail, Speed River Trail and Kissing Bridge Trail) and showing each trail's division into its numbered sections. The remainder of the Handbook describes each section, accompanied by a detailed colour map of that trail and the parking locations. Information on our trail history, hiking safety, and GPS reference points is also included.

An example of a map in our Handbook:

Purchasing the Handbook of Our Trail Maps

To purchase the Handbook of our trail maps, complete that section of the Membership Form, the on-line shopping cart, or contact the Membership Secretary. It is not necessary to be a member to get a Handbook, but membership fees help us keep these trails open.

The cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members.

Special thanks to the TD Friends of the Environment Foundation - Guelph Chapter for their generous financial assistance with publishing the current edition of our Handbook.