Next Oxford County Trails Council board meeting is scheduled for Monday April 8th at the Childrens Aid building, 712 Peel St., Woodstock, commencing at 10.30 am. Click the link below for the minutes of our last AGM and subsequent round-table discussion.

Past meeting minutes can be found HERE  

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TAKE A HIKE 2024

Presidents Message: Dan Molinaro

June 1st 2024 is International Trails Day and Oxford County Trails Council is well advanced with our own plans for this special day of local festivities. Branded as Take a Hike, Oxford! we will be offering no fewer than four locations in Oxford County where people can come to learn more about our wonderful trails network and participate in a wide variety of activities designed to bring nature, and our shared responsibility to protect it, deeper into our lives.

Combining knowledge, physical and mental health is vital to our wellbeing and we recognise this starts from an early age and can last a lifetime. So, the activities at our four public sites will feature fun for kids and parents while catering for those who wish to explore each trail, with or without a guide, and perhaps capture their experiences with their camera or other mobile device. We have teamed up with several Woodstock area partners to allow up-close and personal and handson experiences to encourage a broader understanding of local nature, our environment and the many related, local resources available to us.

The four locations we have selected are as follows: Herbert Milnes Park Woodlot  Patullo Avenue Woodstock - John Lawson Trail  Wonham St. South, Ingersoll - Hickson Street North 99 Loveys Street Hickson - Oxford Thames River Trail 454779 45th Line Beachville.

Each location will be open from 10am to 2pm, rain or shine and will feature sanitation and hydration facilities. Bring your own water bottle, snacks, bug spray, sun screen and outdoor foot ware. Free parking will be available. We would like to thank our event sponsors who have made this festival free of charge for visitors.

Help us promote this event.

A pdf can be downloaded and printed from HERE

See You There 

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SPRING 2024 NEWSLETTER NOW ONLINE

CLICK HERE

 

 

CULVERT REPAIR Thames River Trail

Dec 2022

HODGES TRAIL at CEDAR CREEK

OPENING Oct 12 2022

 

Additional Photos HERE

This event was planned to celebrate the contributions of Gunn's Hill Limited Partnership, the neighbouring green energy project, part of the Oxford Community Energy Cooperative. Ongoing funding from GHLP has been instrumental in the transformation of the Hodge's Property...trails and natural heritage. Contributions from GHLP have not only funded projects directly, but have provided some of the matching dollars required for some of our largest grants...from Environment Canada and Health Futures.

For the Hodge's Event we partnered with County of Oxford, Woodstock Field Naturalists, Tourism Oxford, Stewardship Oxford, Woodstock Environmental Advisory Committee, Oxford EarlyON, and others to help host the event and run activities and guided hikes

Thanks to Brad and his team as well as all the volunteers who made it such a huge success.

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UPDATE - HODGES CONSERVATION AREA - OCT 20 2020

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Norwich to Tillsonburg Trail Update