The Trans Canada Trail connection in Barrie is complete.
Mayor Jeff Lehman and representatives from the Trans Canada Foundation officially opened the last remaining connection in the city on Friday.
The City restored 200 metres of trail from Yonge Street to Little Avenue to complete the connection of approximately 20 km of the Trans Canada Trail that passes through Barrie.
The City received a $24,000 grant from the Foundation to complete the work which included re-grading steep slopes, trail excavation, placement of trail granulars, boundary fencing, sodding and seeding.
The trail in Barrie connects to the Township of Springwater in the northwest and to the Township of Innisfil in the south.
The Trans Canada Trail is the world's longest networks of multi-use recreational trails, comprised of land and water routes across urban, rural and wilderness landscapes.
Once fully connected, it will stretch nearly 24,000 kilometres from the Atlantic to the Pacific to the Arctic oceans, through every province and territory, linking Canadians in nearly 1,000 communities.
So far, more than 20,000 kilomteres of the trial are operational.
The foundation's goal is to connect the trail as a continuous route from coast to coast to coast by 2017.Barrie
