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[SignalHillHiker]

Is the federal government doing this everywhere or just here?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...rade-1.4748418

It looks like shit. They did a similar thing at Cape Spear - where most of the trails are black asphalt now. It looks so cheap and terrible.

[Metro-One]

Wow, that looks terrible.

They couldn’t just add grips?

I am sure people will still trip and fall on the gravel.

[SignalHillHiker]

The backlash is really starting to grow. Media today are giving this guy a lot of airtime:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...00000118945095

[le calmar]

What a disaster. You cannot permanently destroy a landscape because of a few incidents, it is the responsibility of people to wear appropriate hiking shoes when they visit a national park. And why so wide? They say they don't use vehicles on the new path but in the last picture it sure looks like we can see tire tracks.

[SignalHillHiker]

Seriously what the fuck is Parks Canada doing? Now they're quarrying stone on the Tablelands!?

Even a former national Director has come out and said this is against Parks Canada's mandate and might be illegal.

http://www.thetelegram.com/news/loca...s-rock-229593/

They need to fuck off and leave our UNESCO World Heritage Sites alone.

[TownGuy]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Is the federal government doing this everywhere or just here?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...rade-1.4748418

It looks like shit. They did a similar thing at Cape Spear - where most of the trails are black asphalt now. It looks so cheap and terrible.

WTF?

They took a beautiful, serene and iconic landscape and scared it with an ugly gravel road. I wouldn't want to walk it. That would not aid in accessibility either, I couldn't imagine pushing a wheelchair down that thing or being the person in the wheelchair getting rattled around. Someone using a walker would have no hope, I see seniors using our wooden beach boardwalk, with no issue, all the time. The point about emergency vehicle access is ridiculous. It is a national park, you can't carve the whole thing up in gravel roads for emergency access.

We have a newly built accessibility path at a nearby forest and it is not the width of a road and the gravel is extremely fine.


Not that that would look better than the wooden boardwalk but 100 times better than the road they built.

[Laceoflight]

Here are some of the villages and towns I crossed during my last trip to the Côte-Nord region, in QC.

RIVIÈRE-AU-TONNERRE


HAVRE-SAINT-PIERRE


L'ÎLE-AUX-PERROQUETS


NATASHQUAN (Les Galets)


KÉGASKA


MAGPIE


BAIE-TRINITÉ


TADOUSSAC


PORT-AU-PERSIL


Bonus...
Sept-Îles is a rather ugly town, however, I loved its port !

[TownGuy]

Beautiful! Love the one of Magpie.

[1ajs]

lynn lake mb

[MonctonRad]

Stargazing at Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, near the mouth of the Petitcodiac River on the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by le calmar

What a disaster. You cannot permanently destroy a landscape because of a few incidents, it is the responsibility of people to wear appropriate hiking shoes when they visit a national park. And why so wide? They say they don't use vehicles on the new path but in the last picture it sure looks like we can see tire tracks.

This is why we can't have nice things. Are there still holdovers from the Harper era running things at Parks Canada? This seems obscene.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Is the federal government doing this everywhere or just here?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfou...rade-1.4748418

It looks like shit. They did a similar thing at Cape Spear - where most of the trails are black asphalt now. It looks so cheap and terrible.

I can't get over how ugly this is. They say it's about inclusion. Inclusion of cars? This belongs in the Ugly Canada thread.

[TownGuy]

A little slice of my county (Northumberland). It is one of the more undulating areas of Southern Ontario. The undulating nature of the land also leads more pleasant landscape as there are mixed wood forested areas intermingled with farmland, moreso than what you see in much of Southern Ontario, particularly the southwest which is flat as a pancake and mostly all farmland.











Source: http://www.tedamsden.com

[kwoldtimer]

Undulating, perhaps ....

[TownGuy]

Lol, I literally edited/fixed that 1 minute before your reply.

[White Pine]

I've always liked Killarney:



Also the Hautes Gorges in Quebec:




And there's some cool places around Lake Superior (although it's hard to really do this area justice)

[megadude]

I'm a fan of undulating landscapes. When I'm driving to the bro in law's cottage on Buckhorn in Kawartha Hideaway, the gentle ups and downs make for an interesting drive in otherwise unremarkable scenery until you start passing over causeways and running alongside lake shores.

[SignalHillHiker]

All gorgeous shots, of course, but those Northumberland ones was fun. So foreign... it's like looking at the Rocky Mountains - makes you wonder what sort of people would live there in a fantasy novel.

[ainvan]

Hunlen Falls, Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, BC

Hunlen Falls in Tweedsmuir Provincial Park are Canada’s third highest waterfall – plunging 1,316 feet (401 metres). In fact they are the highest waterfalls in Canada if you measure as a continuous unbroken drop.


Source


HelloBC


Hunlen Falls by Simeon Telfer, on Flickr

[ainvan]

Tweedsmuir Provincial Park, BC

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