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Barrie Family Waterfront Trails 6.7 km (paved to Heritage Park then crushed stone) / Oro-Medonte Rail Trail (crushed stone) 28 km.    

• This is a series of gentle, mostly paved mixed use trails. The 3.6 km paved portion runs from the south east end of Kempenfelt Bay at Minet’s Point Beach right around Kempenfelt Bay, past beaches, picnic areas, playgrounds and the City Marina; through Allandale Station Park and Centennial Beach Park and skirts the diverse dining and shopping options of downtown Barrie (north a block) to the children's Splash Pad in Heritage Park at Lakeshore Drive and Mulcaster Street. 
   
• The trail continues along the North Shore Trail 3.1 km on a crushed stone bed through to the north east end of the city past Johnston’s Beach to the intersection with Penetanguishene Road at the city limit. To continue along the Oro-Medonte Rail Trail, turn left a few metres to Shanty Bay Road and then turn right. 
   
• A small portion of the trail travels along Shanty Bay Road about 1.4 km until it reconnects with the Oro-Medonte Rail Trail at Oro Line 1 (keep turning right and right). The trail at this point provides a flat and easy route with no motorized vehicles along an abandoned rail right of way for another 28km that runs parallel to the shoreline through the hamlets of Shanty Bay, Oro Station and Hawkestone all the way to Orillia. More beaches can be found at several points along the way including south of Oro Station and at Hawkestone. The lovely beach at Bayview Memorial Park on Lakeshore Drive between the 8th and 9th Lines, is a great spot for a picnic and there is summer access to washrooms.
   
• If you continue all the way through to Orillia, you will find beaver ponds and herons at Carthew Bay Nature Reserve (a provincially significant wetland) and Osprey nests at the tops of hydro poles at the end of the trail at Woodland Drive. However, you can turn north at any Line between the 5th and the 12^th to return to Barrie via Ridge Road.

Click on the link for a map of Barrie Waterfront Trails.
 

Click on the link for a map of the Oro-Medonte Rail Trail