With the success of finalizing the build of the boardwalk for the Boreal Trail, the Opasquia Trails held a planning meeting last week, to determine what the board and trail’s needs would be for the foreseeable future.
“We wanted to have a planning meeting, because we haven’t had one since inception,” said Opasquia Trails Board Member Al McLauchlan. “The board thought it was time to get together as a board and with organizations in the community, to make sure that we still had community support and were on the track we had anticipated. We were pleasantly surprised and the ideas that came from the planning meeting were consistent with what the board had wanted.
“There is still a huge interest in trails and unbelievable support for what our board is doing. That is evident from what we saw at this meeting and in terms of the number of people using the trail. Our visitation numbers are outstanding and it’s great to see how many people are actually using the trail. This summer we estimated around 14,000 people walked the boardwalk, and that’s a very conservative low estimate. We’re still seeing high numbers of people using the trail during the fall months.”