O.R. Side Trail - Minor reroute at McQuillan’s Bridge

Since the City of Guelph has closed the McQuillan’s bridge, it’s no longer possible for “The O.R.” Side Trail to cross over it.
In order to use “The O.R.” Side Trail, coming from the Barber Scout Camp parking lot, it’s now necessary to cross the river on Stone Road. Map on page 27 and text on page 28 (says "cross over the old McQuillan bridge", and that's no longer correct) of 2025 Trail Handbook.

Climb the embankment up to Stone Road, cross over the river and enjoy the view of the historic McQuillan bow string bridge, and then climb back down on the far side.  Loop around as shown here, to continue northwards on “The O.R.” Side Trail.

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RLT section 2 reroute – at Arkell Spring Grounds property

As the City of Guelph moves forward to install new fencing on their Arkell Spring Grounds (the "waterworks” property), to better protect their sensitive Operational Area, we have re-routed a portion of our trails accordingly

The section of the RLT main trail (orange blazes) under the green X’s here is being abandoned, to accommodate new fencing to be installed soon.

The main trail has been re-routed along the yellow line here.  And also along a small piece of the Arkell Springs Loop Side Trail in the pink circle area here, which is now blazed orange instead of blue.

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Permanent Trail closure on part of RLT section 6

 At landowner request, a portion of our trail within Section 6 of the RLT has been closed, as shown below.

 

 The trail heading south along Sixth Line ends when it reaches Pineridge Drive, and is discontinuous at this point.  Kong Hill is no longer accessible.  There are no reasonable alternate paths at the moment, although we are in discussions with other nearby landowners.

Please do not try to hike on this closed portion!

The eastern half of Section 6, from the abandoned rail bed and the wooden bridges across Blue Springs Creek, over to Dublin Road, is still open for hiking.  For now this is an "out-and-back" section - enter from Dublin Line, enjoy the trail, but do not proceed west beyond the abandoned rail bed!  Turn around and go back along the same trail, to Dublin Line.

We hope to establish a reasonable new route for the trail in this area, and will provide updates here when that becomes available.