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The Rideau Trail
beckons those on foot
With friends or solo, can you go
end-to-end from Ottawa to Kingston?
BY NIGEL BRERETON
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If you’re thinking about running the trekked through torrential rains and soggy The Rideau Trail Association (RTA),
Rideau Trail instead of hiking it, the record marshes day and night for four days, 19 which maintains the trail, organizes end-
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has stood since 1983 when Bob Tysen of hours and 47 minutes. They put up with to-end treks on weekends; hikers generally
Kingston ran it in three days, 11 hours and bug bites, poison ivy and swollen feet return home at the end of each day. (There

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31 minutes. while raising money for the Muscular are no serviced campsites on the trail.)
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Not bad for a 300-kilometre jaunt! Dystrophy Association. On an end-to-end Some people take years to complete
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Others take it at an easier pace. They hike, you won’t find the terrain any easier, the course. Those who do, and who are

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relish the friendships made on the trail, but at least the pace will be more relaxing. members of the club, get a badge and
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the raft built over a beaver pond between And you’ll be on a hiking trail. Unlike some certificate.
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Lion’s Beach and Massassauga Road, an other routes, including the Trans-Canada Other ways for getting an end-to-end
badge is to do it with a group of friends.
Some people take years to complet
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Or why not try hiking it solo? Everything is
done on the honours system, and the only
occasional glimpse of wild turkeys that Trail, this trail is designed for and limited requirement for that badge and certificate is
sometimes appear along the way, and the to, feet on the ground in boots, snowshoes that you must join the RTA.
outstanding view of Westport from Foley or skis; there aren’t supposed to be any
Mountain. Then there are the daily treks. snowmobiles, ATVs, mountain bikes or
“Some stretch for 17 kilometres and come horses. Just you, the woods, fields and
complete with bugs, rocks, mud, heat and Canadian Shield.
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Pike
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Rideau Ferry
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Old Slys
44 416
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Bass
FERRY
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Burritts Rapids
Clowes 17 43 Scale/Échelle
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FOLEY
MOUNTAIN
MURPHYS
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Nicholsons
Edmonds
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Lombardy 25 Kilmarnock
Westport
Col. By Island MILL Otter
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Merrickville
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Canoe Upper Rideau Île Col. By 0 2 4 6 mi
10 42 Narrows 16
Prescott 1.6 km = 1 mi
Big Rideau
Newboro
35 Jasper
Desert Eel
15
Kingsford Newboro
14 Portland Eastons Corners
Birch 36 PORTLAND
Devil Newboro BAY
Holleford
Crosby
Irish
29
Otter
Bellamys
Clear
Indian 9
Knowlton
Buck Buck
Chaffeys 15
37
Opinicon
Elgin
Davis Sand Delta
Perth Road
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11
Jones Falls
42 What’s Coming Up?
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Morton Lyndhurst • Sunday April 27 a weekends “end-to-end”
Pont de Brass Point
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33 Legend/Légende
Battersea
Dog
Athens Forthton
starts in Ottawa with the goal of doing the
10
Cranberry
Seeleys Bay
Rideau Trail Sentier du Rideau
Sunbury 15 Navigation Channel Chenal
29
12 trail as far as Smiths Falls this year.
Upper Brewers
43, 44 Écluse
42
Toronto
Lock
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Styx
Lower Brewers
Brockville
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Highway Route principale
To participate or to check out the RTA’s weekly
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45 (Washburn)
401
wnship Road Route de comté ou de canton
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County/To
Kingston Mills Joyceville
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Colonel By
Town or City Agglomération © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada,
non-end-to-end outings, phone 613-860-2225
represented by the Chief Executive Officer,
Village Petite localité Parks Canada, 2006
21
Kingston
Provincial Park Parc provincial
401 Gananoque
© Sa Majesté la reine du chef du Canada,
or go to www.rideautrail.org.
H Conservation Area Aire de conservation
représentée par le Directeur général de
2
Parcs Canada, 2006
Cedar Is. e
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Fleuve S
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Île Cedar St. Lawrence River
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