Duff Roblin Parkway Trail - Lockport (Manitoba) Canada
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oiseau_ca
N 49° 45.380 W 097° 07.396
14U E 635174 N 5513229
a head of trail located near the St. Mary’s Road Bridge on Manitoba Highway 200 just south of Winnipeg (Manitoba) Canada
Waymark Code: WMMANB
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 08/23/2014
Views: 10
This head of trail is located on the west side of the floodway, that begins near the St. Mary’s Road Bridge on Manitoba Highway 200 just south of Winnipeg (Manitoba) Canada
Duff Roblin Parkway Trail is a multi-year landscaping and recreational development strategy for the expanded floodway. The trail supports multi-use, non-motorized, four-season recreational opportunities along the floodway including walking, hiking, and biking in the summer and cross-country skiing and snowshoeing in winter. The public can walk, run, bike, or ski as much or as little of the trail as they like. Along the way, users will follow the floodway channel and will have an opportunity to see wildlife and vegetation along with agricultural land.
The primary purpose of the trail is to act as a service access road to support the emergency and operational needs of the floodway. When not in use for floodway purposes, the public will be able to use the floodway service access as a recreational trail for pedestrian and non-motorized activities.
A key focus of the development was to provide linkages to the existing recreational opportunities such as the Trans-Canada Trail and Birds Hill Provincial Park. In the future, the new Duff Roblin Provincial Park, located near the south end of the floodway, will link directly into the Duff Roblin Parkway Trail.
The trail network includes the following components:
A 46 km trail, located on the west side of the floodway, that begins near the St. Mary’s Road Bridge in the south and ends just south of Lockport. Approximately 5 kms of the trail between the Garven Road Staging Area and Dunning Road is paved.
A 3.2 km trail on the east side of the floodway, known as the Kirkness Spur, that runs from near the new pedestrian overpass bridge to Kirkness Road.
A 2.8 km paved trail leading from the pedestrian overpass bridge into Birds Hill Provincial Park called the Cedar Bog Spur.
The public can park their vehicles and begin their journey from one of a number of staging areas located along the floodway. The staging areas are located at:
Prairie Grove – located at km 8 of the DRPT (north-west side of the PTH 59 South Highway Bridge)
Gunn Road – located at km 24 of the DRPT (just off PTH #1 outside of Transcona)
Garven Road – located at km 31 (just northeast of Birds Hill Town – follow Garven Road to where it meets the floodway)
Donald Road – located at km 37 (just off PR 202 north of the Dunning Road turnoff)
Lockport – located at km 44 (south of Lockport just off PR 202)
Kirkness – located on the east side of floodway at the junction of PTH 59 and Kirkness Road
Cedar Bog Trailhead – located in Birds Hill Provincial Park
In the future, the public will be able to access the trail from the new Duff Roblin Provincial Park at the south end of the floodway.
Parking: N 49° 45.367 W 097° 07.396
Trailhead/trail website: [Web Link]
Trail allowances or restrictions:
allowances: hiking, bicycling, cross-country skiing
restrictions: hunting, ATVs, snowmobiles, horses
Trail type: all of the above, depending on different sections, but mainly gravel
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