Topic: Rumour has it that the gate to the Upper Petawawa is open....

[Larry W]

The gate has been left unlocked for about 3 years now. Maybe the Algonquin Park staff lost the key, shot off the lock and haven't replaced it yet.
Or it's a trap, waiting for the unsuspecting persons that ignore the signage.

The railway bed does serve as a good emergency access point if anyone in the area is in need.

Larry

Well I was assuming that he meant open AND permissible. Perhaps my assumption was off there.

[DaveH]

Well I was assuming that he meant open AND permissible. Perhaps my assumption was off there.

[ChristianG]

In fact you wouldn't have to go slow at all, it's very flat and smooth, not even one pothole. Except for the bridge--clunk-clunk-clunk... A certain canoe paddler has driven up and down the old railbed nervously, with a 37-point turn at the end... On the hike in, I once had to make way for a Ford Ranger with two fat guys in it, pulling a trailer with a boat.

I thought about it too, my car easily makes it between the two boulders. But it's a gamble. Algonquin Park kind of expects it from big-gut cigarette-smoking fishermen and would just slap them with a fine. Same for paddlers perhaps, but they may react differently, and restrict access even more--does anybody really want to be the one who ruined it for others?

--C.

[Larry W]

hi

The gate is unlocked.
Sign says no cars beyond this point.

So if you get caught with your vehicle in there be prepared to pay the fine
$155 + $155 + $65

Larry

..... and that one can drive slowly all the ways to the put-in. Perhaps it was just temporarily open, but I got the impression that this is the new norm. Can anyone confirm any of this? I heard it in an eddy at the Pumphouse from ??

[DaveH]

..... and that one can drive slowly all the ways to the put-in. Perhaps it was just temporarily open, but I got the impression that this is the new norm. Can anyone confirm any of this? I heard it in an eddy at the Pumphouse from ??