The Lang Hastings Trail is a greenway trail and its uses are restricted to five core activities: hiking/jogging, cycling, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.  This public trail is open year round and is co-managed with the Rice Lake Snow Drifters Snowmobile Club.

Vision for the Trail

As part of the Trans Canada Trail, the longest trail build in Canada, the ‘Lang Hastings Trail’ will be sought out by many, and admired by local communities as a unique and healthy lifestyle choice and natural heritage wonder to take pride in.

Mandate of the Peterborough-Hastings Trans Canada Trail Association

The Peterborough-Hastings Trans Canada Trail Association is an incorporated, charitable organization dedicated to the operation, maintenance and promotion of the ‘Lang-Hastings Trail,’ a 33 kilometer trail developed on the abandoned Canadian National Railway rail bed between Peterborough, Ontario and the Trent River at Hastings, Ontario. The property on which the trail has been developed is leased by the Association from the Province of Ontario and The Barron Cowan Family Foundation.

The Core Principles of the Trans Canada Trail:

• provide a safe and enjoyable trail experience on high quality trail • promote an active and healthy lifestyle • preserve green space, encourage active transportation, and protect the environment • as a priority, develop a greenway trail that promotes non-motorized uses in summer (walking, hiking, cycling horseback riding, and canoeing on water routes), as well as cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling on some trail segments, in winter.

Donations from trail users and supporters benefit the entire community and especially in this new era of social distancing, public trails are essential assets for managing physical and mental health.