Green Trails Ontario (formerly Trans Canada Trail Ontario) embraces the creation of environmentally sustainable trail landscapes that offer diverse recreational, educational, and health benefits while providing opportunities for communities to reduce the local effects of climate change.

We envision Ontario trails that reflect our fundamental principles of “green and adaptive.” They contribute to climate mitigation, enhance landscape functions, and welcome communities across the province to participate in environmental trail activities.

Working through partnerships, GTO’s mission is to bring community resources, knowledge, and experience together to improve the ecological sustainability of trail corridors and landscapes that contribute to community and environmental health. In the effort of climate mitigation, GTO’s goal is to enhance trail environments and landscapes beyond the trail corridors.

GTO programs are guided by the SHADE principles described in GTO’s vision. They remain fundamental to GTO’s commitment to its climate-responsive initiatives.