The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 1. Kingston City Hall (01A) to McIvor Road (02A)

Sun. 18 March:  The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 

1.  Kingston City Hall (01A) to McIvor Road (02A)

Note: click on pictures for full size view.

I’m not going to bore the reader with lots of words. 

Instead, I’ll post a few pictures that tell the story of the hike. 

Today nine hikers started the roughly 330 km journey from Kingston to Ottawa, at Kilometre Zero in front of Kingston City Hall.  It was a cold late-winter’s day with hardly a breath of wind on Lake Ontario.  Four hours later, we had reached McIvor Road, on the north side of town, ready to head out into the countryside. 

We were off and running (today’s pace of over 4 km/hr. will be hard to sustain as we reach more rugged country).

Enjoy the pictures.

A cold late-winter's morning

Kilometre Zero in Kingston

Kingston City Hall

Marching westwards beside Lake Ontario

Past the old Kingston Penitentiary (now closed)

No breath of wind on the lake

Scenic trail

Here we turned north on a detour to avoid a flood-damaged section of trail

Handy services along the trail?

Toronto train pulls out of Kingston station

The trail follows Platform 2  (!) 

We followed the trail signs under the railway line...

...and into a busy station waiting room. 
Perhaps the most curious section of the trail, but convenient!

Up  the hill into Cataraqui Cemetery

Note the wording on the bench

Turning onto the K&P Trail

Under the 401 Toronto-Montreal highway

The final leg to McIvor Road