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‼️Breaking News - Full OFSC Trail Network To Be Restored Thanks to Historic $4.9M Investment by the Government of Ontario ‼️ The OFSC is thrilled to share great news for organized snowmobiling in Ontario. Thanks to a historic $4.9M investment by the Government of Ontario ($3.9M in new funding, $1M in infrastructure funding already allocated), Ontario’s snowmobile trail network can be restored in full for the 2025–26 season, as it was at the end of last season (30,000+KM). This investment reflects the importance of our system to communities, the economic impact of our trails, and the tremendous effort that has gone into ensuring snowmobiling remains a cornerstone of winter in this province. Looking beyond this season, this investment represents the first step in plans that will ensure the long-term sustainability of a trail network of this size in Ontario.  Over the next few weeks, Clubs will be hard at work doing trail prep, signage, pre-season maintenance on grooming equipment, and securing land use permissions. The OFSC Interactive Trail Guide will update in real-time as land-use permissions are secured for entire trail segments!  Snowmobiling in Ontario runs on three things: volunteers, landowners, and permit revenue. Contact your club to volunteer, respect our landowners, and buy a permit! Working together, the future of snowmobiling in Ontario is strong.

That goes without saying .

Great News

Possibly, but if you don't get the trails back up and useable what do you do the next time they come with the reductions?  Our club closed a trail across a number of old order Mennonite farms. Those farmers were given a nice letter telling them whats going on and that we won't be putting a trail through their farm as well, they were given the pair of work gloves that had been ordered for them last spring. Might be tough to get approval back with some of them. If we do, then comes the fun of trying to get the trail staked and signed.  On another note permit sales in our district are way up to the end of November.

Nope groomer reductions are shelved, restore everything that can possibly restored back to where it was last season.  I think a lot of clubs/districts will see some stuff that likely shouldn't bother being restored, in the name of being able to better service higher traffic trails.