Walking & Strolling.
The Tay Shore Trail's 18.5 km of paved waterfront path runs through Victoria Harbour, Port McNicoll, and Waubaushene along Severn Sound's Tay Reach, with interpretive nature signs at intervals along the former rail bed. Patterson Park's waterfront in Port McNicoll, where the CPR Great Lakes steamships once docked, anchors the Port McNicoll spur of the trail.
The brief.
The trail is paved end to end, flat, and walkable in any season — May through October is the easiest, with snow clearing reduced in winter. Tay Township is a documented community node on the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail's Simcoe County section and the Tay Shore Trail forms part of the Trans Canada Trail through this stretch of Simcoe County.
Trailhead parking is available at multiple village access points and the trail surface accommodates strollers, accessibility devices, and inline skating. Interpretive signs along the route mark heritage and natural-history points.
2. places.
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Tay Shore Trail (Victoria Harbour / Port McNicoll / Waubaushene segments)
18.5 km paved rail trail along Georgian Bay through three lakeshore villages; interpretive signage; Trans Canada Trail / Great Lakes Waterfront Trail.
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Patterson Park (Port McNicoll waterfront)
Anchor of the Port McNicoll spur, on the historic CPR steamship harbour.
Today's read.
Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.