Your trails. Your voice.
We’re updating the Guelph Trail Master Plan (GTMP), a strategic document that guides how we plan, design, fund, build and maintain Guelph’s trail system.
A new and improved GTMP means we can innovate trail design guidelines, revise routes, create new trail facilities and promote trail use in our community – all with your help in prioritizing our trail needs.
This master plan update supports the City’s Strategic Plan as we continue to build strong, vibrant, safe and healthy communities that foster resilience in the people who live here.
As Guelph grows, we are also committed to planning and designing an increasingly sustainable city.
What we've heard in Round three of our engagement has now been posted.
Check out these documents to stay up to date with what we have learned through our consultations.
The third round of engagement closed December 15.
For this engagement, we want wanted you to participate using the tabs below:
Your input will be considered in the creation of the draft master plan to be presented to Council in spring 2021.
To learn more about the project and inform your decisions, please read the documents available on the right hand panel:
You can also review the documents relating to the Trans Canada Trail in the right hand panel:
Click on the Add Pin (+) button in the menu to provide feedback on the following questions:
Please note that this is not the final trail network map. Your feedback, as well as other considerations, will be used to create the final map next year.
More information about the map is in the Trail Network Map document.
Dark Green lines - Existing trails are City trails already constructed and existing trails owned or managed by third parties. The trails span a wide range of contexts from connections through community parks to remote hiking trails.
Orange lines - Proposed future trails and desired connections are (1) trails that have been previously planned, approved and not yet constructed, (2) desired connections requiring further study from the 2005 GTMP and those identified during this update.
This update used the following trail planning principles to recommend desired connections:
Some of these planned trails are along major corridors (Hanlon Expressway, railway rights-of-way) and others are about formalizing informal routes in City parks (ex. Dovercliffe Park).
Red circles - Future and desired trail crossings are:
Existing mid-block signalized crossings and trail structures are not shown on the map to improve readability. Proposed crossings were identified based on feedback from the first round of community engagement as well as trail planning principles.