Another thing is that it is quite stupidly routed in some areas with real trails. As a reasonably experienced long distance hiker, and being from Canada when I

Another thing is that it is quite stupidly routed in some areas with real trails. As a reasonably experienced long distance hiker, and being from Canada when I heard about the trail nearing completion my first though was, can I through hike this. I looked into the logistics of doing this in about a year of hiking . Crux would be getting out of the North and mountains and into SK for winter. Anyway, my first thought was damn there is a lot of road walking up north. Then I decided to see what it looked like when it ran through the town I grew up in, take a look: http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134045614-af037.png http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134045614-af037.png Notice how part of the 'trail' isn't even connected to the rest, how it does a lollipop in the southeast And if thats bad, a little west of there it has a huge lollipop into another town: http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134257918-22a76.png http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134257918-22a76.png And the Toronto area, just goes out to Detroit and then nothing: http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134402430-7fd8a.png http://se.ri0.us/2017-09-02-134402430-7fd8a.png I get that its a connection of recreational trails and some of the weird routing is because the town's local trails are not meant to be trails 'to' somewhere but really, this is just bad design. As the trail does lollipops and has dead-ends I really don't think its fair to compare its length to more proper trails that one could reasonable follow end to end without needing to hike segments multiple times (there and back). I really wish The Great Trail was an awesome, trans-Canada hike, I really do, buts its just a great disappointment to me. I think funding/support this trail had would have been better spent on some of the amazing trails Canada has like the Great Divide Trail.