That's it hard to enforce permit on a road no doubt. Direct road crossing would be easier to prove you are trail riding. A road with trail using road, doubt if you could even enforce permit on that one.  I one seen a cop sitting at a gas station near road in district 9. He was just checking Val tags and insurance, driver license etc. No permit check on that one.    

My experiences in this situation have been in Gravenhurst, a location you’d think the opp would be well rehearsed.  Both times not officer on sled but a cop at road crossing or trail that runs long a road.   

That is likely the same Regional officer that our  club trail boss met at a sideroad crossing a couple of winters ago. He said he grew up with sleds and wanted to help with the no permit problem.  We need more like him/them.

I was spot checked checked by a Waterloo regional police officer and turns out we went to high school together, we got chatting and he said he always is checking for permits and charging anyone with trespassing who didn’t have one plus he was looking for valid license stickers, maybe he knew more cause he grew in in the culture, kinda surprised OPP officer wouldn’t know this   

If only it were that easy. I am on the DuYa board and we were made aware of the financial issues and impending changes at our last club meeting of this past sled season. Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago and we are told by district 7 that we had to reduce the amount of trails in the district by a set percentage. Don’t think I can disclose that number. Basically the district said “get on board and help, or the OFSC will simply close the trails at their discretion to meet their mandate of reduction. We certainly don’t run our club. We just scurry around to meet their changing annual demands set out by the federation. The province needs to get involved in this, or this is the beginning of the end.