wjb greenwood park is a 265 ha recreation class park just south of latchford. it occupies the southern shoreline of bay lake, and currently consists of a few hiking trails winding through second growth birch and spruce forest. prodded by the town of latchford, who developed a business case for the park, ontario parks has begun developing a management plan for a, "unique park... [as] a hub for hikers. all campsites will be accessible only by foot or by boat." sod turning will be in july 2007. work will be done primarily by volunteers with the friends of greenwood park.
why is latchford bucking the trend of regional municipalities, led by elk lake, of opposing ecotourism and advocating for motorized access in parks? without making a big fuss, latchford (pop. 300) council has aimed its economic and tourism development sights squarely on hikers and other light travellers. i think latchford realizes, to their great benefit, that the hunting and fishing model of tourism is mature. every town in northern ontario has a gaggle of hook 'n bullet lodges nearby. latchford has very little of this, and has chosen not to compete but instead to carve out their own niche. they look at what they have that is special, and emphasize that, rather than emphasizing what they have that everyone else has too.town of latchford - greenwood park
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latchford area trails
on another note, please accept my apologies for yesterday's technical difficulties. i accidentally deleted wild temagami, but was able to rebuild most of it using saved files, memory and time. the only posts i've been unable to reconstuct are 'a road in a roadless wilderness' on atv use in the lady evelyn-smoothwater park, and 'who painted temagami's pictographs?' i'll do my best to reconstruct them soon.
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