FIND THE LINE: Riding The TAY-HAVELOCK Rail Trail
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- At 145km long, the Tay-Havelock Trail is a part of the Trans-Canada Trail network. It's the same trail that I tried riding west from the town of Sharbot Lake last summer. (That didn't go so well for me with the trail being totally flooded out and impassable by bike.)
I've been wanting to ride the Tay-Havelock Trail between Glen Tay & Sharbot Lake, Ontario for almost a year. It's only a small 35km slice of the trail, but it passes through some of my favourite countryside and I was curious to see what the trail was like.
It may have been the second longest day of the year, but I had a later start than I hoped for and needed to do the trail both directions. I knew I'd have to find the line to make good time through the trail because I'd be chasing the sun to get back to the car before dark.
This was my experience riding the Tay-Havelock Trail and it didn't disappoint.
A very timely report. Thanks, Steve. This ride is on my summer list.
Have a great trip! I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Video doesn't do it justice.
Great video! Our summer cabin is just outside of Glen Tay and the rail trail is a favourite ride of mine. I did the ride from the trailhead to Sharbot Lake in 2022 and found the trail condition past the bridge at Armstrong was so rough with huge stones it was almost unridable. And I had a fat tire ebike. Glad to see the trail condition has improved.
The better trail conditions you experienced from Armstrong back to the trailhead is that Lanark county puts some funds towards trail maintenance which keeps it nice.
The year before I went to Fall River Rd. From Sharbot Lake by mistake. That section was how you described it with big loose rocks all over the trail. It's why I put off doing the ride for a while. I was worried it'd all be like that and it'd be real slow going. Glad it wasn't!
thank you for another great video I have watched several of your eastern Ont. rides over the last little while. They are sparking my desires to try most of them on my new Catrike recumbent that they complete the build on wed or thur. I will use this fall to learn the trike then next summer some longer rides maybe Ottawa. what is your camera a 360 x3 or 4?
Thanks, Doug! Some of the rougher trails might be a bit rough on a recumbent, but there are definitely sections of each place I've been that you could ride without trouble! Enjoy the bike when it's ready and the new adventures it'll bring! I used a X3 for the videos up until the "Racing Against The Rain To The Abandoned Hwy" video. That was the joke and the beginning: I switched from the X3 the the X4. Now, I use the X3 when I'm in a spot where I don't want to risk damaging the X4, like when I was out with Rhonda and went inside of the tunnel on the Cataraqui Trail.
How are the deer flies out that way?
If you go out, bring some bug spray. When I was out, they weren't too bad, but in a few spots they got a bit thick when I stopped. As long as I was moving, they left me alone. It's deerfly and horsefly country out there.