The trails are located within two City of Ottawa parks, the Hazeldean Woods Park and the Glen Cairn Reservoir (Forest) adjacent to an underground water reservoir. The trail system is within close riding distance from the Old Quarry Trail System across from the Hazeldean Mall. The total parkland is about 19 hectares (47 acres) with about 5 kilometres of distinct trails.
Although there is not a lot of distance to the trail network it seems longer than it is because of the different loops you can do riding around in it and because of the variety of terrain from easy double track to some really interesting rock gardens and a few challenging climbs (at least for me). This is a local trail system but on both a late Sunday morning and early after supper evening we had no conflicts with other trail users only meeting a few friendly dog walkers and local youngsters on their bikes.
GPS gpx Files
The gpx file for this trail system (and other trail systems) can be downloaded by clicking the link below:
GPX files - Google Docs
If you do download the gpx file please email me at richardw.woodley@gmail.com and let me know so that I have an idea of how many people are downloading and using the files.
Posted 2012-06-12
