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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RLT section 2 – Arkell Spring Grounds – another reroute

The City of Guelph has moved forward with more new fencing on their Arkell Spring Grounds (the "Waterworks” property), to better protect the sensitive Operational Area.  And so we have re-routed accordingly another portion of the RLT main trail.

New fencing has been installed along this purple line, just south of our main trail.  Effectively cutting off that portion of trail.  Our new pathway is located slightly further south, approximately along that brown line above.

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Permanent Trail closure on part of RLT section 6 2026

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

 
 Kong Hill is no longer accessible.  Please do not try to hike on this closed portion!

See replacement route below.
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 RLT section 6 NEW Route Sept 2026

 We are very happy to announce that Section 6 has a NEW route and is opened again!  A portion of it had been closed all summer at the request of a landowner.

Fortunately, the neighbouring landowners, the Nellis family, are very community-minded, and have generously allowed us to move the Radial Line Trail over onto their land.  Thank you very much to the Nellis family!  We are very grateful!

Our Online Map has been updated to show the new trail route, as follows:

 The new trail entrance off 6th Line is a short distance north-west of Pineridge Drive.  (Good roadside parking is still available on Pineridge Drive.)

The map shows the former trail route as grayed-out and “Abandoned”.  Please do not try to hike on this closed and abandoned portion!