Ontario Trails Council Trail Trends

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Ontario Trails Council Trail Trends

• A Conservation Ontario Discussion
• October 29, 2008

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Purpose

• To provide members of Conservation Ontario with
  information on
• Trail Trends
• Current Uses
• Best Practices
• Trail Insurance Option
• Access to relevant information

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Trails Website

• Functions as a database
• Regions, Activities, Cities, Global data
• Currently represents over 1,300 individual trails
• 28,000 km of non-OFSC trails
• 1 on Google www.ontariotrails.on.ca
• Characteristics, GPS, contact information,
  trailheads

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Trails Website

• Using 1,000 trails gathered to July 1, 2008 as a
  baseline
• Tracking 16 uses
• So tracking a largely multi-use trail system
• lt12 are single use canoe, hiking and walking
• This results in 2719 distinct trails by use

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Performance Site

• Average 102 events listed on at any time
• Add your own trail, event, video
• Trail Smart
• Hike Smart, ATV Smart, Ride Smart, etc.
• Video
• Training illustrations
• Trailhead and maps

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Trails
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Trails by Land Manager

• per 1000 trails as at July 1, 1008

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Regional Representation
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Future Analysis

• in north versus south, urban versus rural
• concentrations
• new versus old
• easy, moderate, difficult or extreme
• of heritage, tourism or health value
• permitted or free use
• Land use allowances

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Ontario Trails Market Growth

• Inventory
• Destinations (Regions and Trails)
• Experiences
• Packages
• People
• Social Networking Tools

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Ontario Trail Products

• Activity Promotion
• Pass/Permits revenue generation
• Backcountry - representation
• Urban - planning

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Ontario Trail Services

• To contribute to the long term financial
  sustainability of Ontarios trail infrastructure
• To support Trail Development and Management
  Organization (TDMO) initiatives in developing,
  maintaining and managing Ontarios trails.

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Purpose

• Portfolio of 5 that respond to identified TDMO
  needs
• To benefit TDMOs
• Voluntary
• open to not-for-profit, non-commercial TDMOs
• Participate in one or all, some years or every
  year
• OTC membership

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TDMO

• Organizations legally mandated and responsible
  for the development and/or management of trail
• Evaluative accredited process developed through
  the Ontario Trails Council Safe Trails Manual
• Acceptance as a TDMO dependant on completion of
  all manual components

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TDMO Types

• Blue TDMOs developing/ maintaining water (and
  land used for portage) trails
• Green TDMOs developing/maintaining land-based
  trails free of mandatory trail use fees
• Gold TDMOs developing/maintaining land-based
  trails requiring a mandatory user fee.

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Retail Prices for User Pay

• TDMO Authorized Trail Use
• Year Week Day
• All Terrain Vehicle 140.00 75.00
  20.00
• Horseback Riding 75.00 25.00
  7.50
• Dog Sledding 75.00 25.00
  7.50
• Bicycle 50.00
  20.00 5.00
• Nordic Skiing 35.00 15.00
  3.50
• Other Uses Locally determined, no
  reciprocity

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Self Revenue Progress

• The majority (70) of revenue stays with the
  Selling TDMO for immediate trail development and
  maintenance support. 
• A minor portion (10) of revenue will be applied
  to a Revenue Sharing Fund which participant TDMOs
  can access based on need.
• A minor portion (10) of revenue will be applied
  to Gold Programs and Services which can be
  accessed by all participant organizations. 
• A minor portion (10) of revenue will be applied
  to Individual Use Segment Programs and Services
  which can be accessed by individual use types
  only through provincial associations.

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Budget

• Draft Budget for TTN-gold year 1
• Based on 5000 permit sales 949,208
• TDMO 664,520
• Gold Program Services 94,920
• TDMO Revenue Sharing 94,920
• TDMO Programs and Services 94,920
• OTC is working to match for to further
  assist TDMO with development and maintenance

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Insurance and Revenue

• Click to Pdf profile
• Revenue offsets costs of operation
• Relative Cost
• Irony 1 doesnt affect all but those it
  affects it affects very badly
• Portfolio of interventions includes tort
  reform, self-insured retention, excess insurance,
  user-pay, increase taxes.