The Tugboat and the Mosquito

July 10, 2026

by avatar @brad@trails.bradpenney.io

Easy

Completed

Distance 203.31 km
Est. duration 07h 17m
Elevation Gain 1600 m
Elevation Loss 0 m

Description

Unloaded at the Best Western in Bridgewater, just a few km from home, and picked the trail up from there for the run out to New Germany — the first time linking that whole stretch off-road, now that a couple of long-standing gaps that used to force a short run along pavement have finally closed up.

Route

Start

Setting out from Bridgewater
44.39959, -64.53890

Start of the ride, linking the trail into New Germany fully off-road for the first time.

River view near New Germany
44.50058, -64.65212

Harold's Stillwater
44.43336, -64.87945

A trail name marker along the old rail bed.

Creek crossing
44.46490, -65.07801

Abandoned Russel Brothers tug
44.55309, -65.11232

A former Russel Brothers logging and warping tug, left on the shore of Lake Medway when the Bowater Mersey camps stopped running.

WWII Mosquito crash site
44.67627, -65.20994

Memorial to the RAF Mosquito that crashed here April 20, 1944 on a night training flight out of RCAF Greenwood, killing both airmen aboard.

Roadside farmhouse
44.49394, -64.80037

Red truss bridge
44.53945, -64.71623

Big sky meadow
44.50419, -64.65987

Duck family
44.47402, -64.61888

A family of ducks along the shoreline on the way home.

203.31 km

Finish