P.E.I. golf course and local recreation group partner on new year-round trails
CBC
A P.E.I. golf course looking for ways to extend the season has teamed up with some recreation partners to create a new winter destination on the Island's North Shore.
Woodrow Bishop, general manager at Glasgow Hills Golf Course, came up with the idea of putting multi-use trails on a piece of property the course wasn't using.
"When I came here in 2019, I realized that the season was very short. It was a June 1st to end of October operation," Bishop said.
"So I tried to come up with some ideas. What can we do here to maybe get to seven months, then nine months, with the goal of eventually maybe becoming year round?"
Bishop was inspired in part by his previous job on the west coast.
"I spent 12 years in Whistler, B.C., where mountain biking, outdoor recreation is a big part of of your everyday life," Bishop said. "I wanted to bring a little bit of that to the East Coast."
Glasgow Hills opened phase two of the trails in the fall of 2023, and now has more than 10 kilometres of trails that can be used for hiking, dog walking, mountain biking and, in the winter, snowshoeing and fat biking.
Bishop said Cycling P.E.I. and Tourism Cavendish Beach are helping keep the trails groomed over the winter.
The golf course has also received funding to buy fat bikes that people can rent.
Bishop said the feedback so far has been very positive, including from some mountain bikers who tried out the trails in the fall.
"We've got a trail that's getting lots of hype online called Razzle Dazzle," Bishop said. "A lot of mountain bikers are saying, 'We would have to go off-Island to get some of this terrain and trails.'
"So feedback so far has been exceptional."
The Central Region Sport and Recreation Council has been a key partner in the trails project.
It received $130,000 in funding from P.E.I.'s Active Transportation Fund toward the Glasgow Hills Trail project.
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