Transcona Trail

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Trail Stewardship Group: Transcona Trails Association

The town of Transcona was named for the Transcontinental Railway and Lord Strathcona, a railway industrialist. It was founded in 1911, and was home to the Transcona Railway Shops which maintained railway cars for the Transcontinental Railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. The Transcona Trail is a grass path is used by walkers, runners and cyclists on mountain bikes. The trail is along a Manitoba Hydro right of way so it follows a variety of hydro lines. It starts at the entrance to the Rotary Tall Grass Nature Park at the corner of Ravelston Avenue and Bradley Street, where you’ll find a map and picnic table. Along the trail you’ll find a large variety of birds and many newly planted trees. The Transcona Trail connects the Transcona Community Bioreserve to the trails in the Rotary Tall Grass Prairie Nature Park to create 5 kilometres of continuous trail.

FAST FACTS

  • grass surface
  • 2.0 km route length
  • Parking at the trail head on the corner of Ravelston Ave and Bradley Street at the Transcona Bioreserve parking lot on Gunn Road at the Park City West Community Club parking lot near where the Transcona Trail crosses Hoka Avenue

POINTS OF INTEREST

  1. Rotary Tall Grass Nature Park - This is a rare patch of relatively untouched wet prairie that has never been ploughed. It has 0.7 kilometres of limestone trail.
  2. Off leash dog area - This section of trail from Plessis Road to Hoka Avenue between the Manitoba Central Railway tracks and well kept backyards, is an off leash dog area. Please clean up after your pets on the trails.
  3. Transcona Community Bioreserve - The Bioreserve is the former site of an industrial plant that has been turned into a naturalized park. In the spring it is noisy with frogs. In the summer it is full of colourful wild flowers, butterflies and song birds. There is over 1.6 km of crushed limestone trails in this park. It is beautiful here in the summer and fall. There is a large patch of Big Blue Stem Grass.