Cycling.
The Cornwall Recreational Path carries roughly 22 km of paved riverfront cycling along the St. Lawrence north bank as a documented community segment of the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail.
The route enters Cornwall from the west via the connecting corridor through South Stormont (Long Sault Parkway side) and continues east toward Quebec, with Lamoureux Park as the downtown midpoint and Gray's Creek Conservation Area as the eastern terminus.
The brief.
The Recreational Path is flat, paved, and largely separated from traffic — the easiest entry point to long-distance Waterfront Trail riding in eastern Ontario. From Lamoureux Park, riders can run east toward Lancaster (with Charlottenburgh Park as an intermediate stop in South Glengarry) or west toward the Long Sault Parkway and the Lost Villages corridor in South Stormont.
Best season is May through October; downtown segments stay accessible into shoulder season. Cornwall is one of the cleaner riverfront-cycling community segments on the Ontario Waterfront Trail thanks to the long, continuous separated path.
3. places.
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Cornwall Recreational Path / Great Lakes Waterfront Trail Cornwall segment
~22 km along the St. Lawrence shoreline through the city.
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Long Sault Parkway connection (west)
Links the Cornwall Recreational Path west into the Long Sault Parkway corridor in South Stormont.
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Quebec / South Glengarry continuation (east)
Waterfront Trail continues east through South Glengarry into Quebec.
Today's read.
Cool but comfortable for layered effort · light winds · clean air.