 We have 6 bridges. They last about 10-15 years. The 2 at either end of Community Centre to Mill Road trail were replaced in 2023 and 2024.
 In summer of 2024, the Municipality of La Pêche and Trans Canada Trail funded maintenance work to divert water and prevent erosion on the steep part of the trail just beside Mill Road.
 Managing and diverting water is a key issue with trail management. Water was pooling on Yellow Trail between the old school and the cemetery, making it very mucky. During the spring of 2024, Sentiers Wakefield Trails built 3 boardwalks to lift hikers out of the mud, allowing water to move beneath the wooden walkway. Funding for the project was provided by the Municipality of La Pêche through a maintenance grant.
 Implemented Spring 2024 with funding from the Trans Canada Trail, volunteers worked together to solidify a crushed stone ramp leading up to the bridge connecting Hendricks Park with the path to the Wakefield covered bridge.
 Bench and bridge in the winter beside the stream in Hendricks park beside Chemin du Vieux-Pont. Photo by Laura Wesley. If you’re out for a hike at Hendricks Park on the trails behind Fairbairn House, you will find lots of benches when you need a rest. There are also a number of bridges to take you across streams and connect with other parts of the trails.
 Ghislain and his daughter, Éllianne, painted the tool shed in 2024. The tool shed was delivered in summer of 2023. Volunteers installed supports below it and built shelves for the tools used to maintain and clear trails. The total cost of the shed was $12,500. Funding was provided by community trail users, with a large donation made by the Cohen family. Trans Canada Trail matched the funding dollar for dollar. We are grateful to the Municipality for the use of the land.
 Ken Bouchard, Founder of Sentiers Wakefield Trails, sitting on the stone stairs beside the waterfalls in Hendricks Park. One of the earliest projects of Sentiers Wakefield Trails was building the stone stairs beside the stream and waterfall in the woods behind Fairbairn House. About 2010, six recently retired old farts worked a month in the spring, fall, then the following Spring again to put them in place. These local fellas were: John Rayner, Martin Podehl, Graham Sibthorpe, Michael Cooper, Ken Bouchard, and Archie Smith.
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