From the Town of Huntsville
Residents are advised that the TriMuskokan Classic Short Course Triathlon and Try-a-Tri will take place on Sunday, June 22, 2025, impacting roads near the Canada Summit Centre in Huntsville.
Temporary road closures on Sunday June 22, 2025, include:
- Forbes Hill Drive from the rock cut to Camp Kitchen Road from 7:45 am to 11:15 am
- Camp Kitchen Road from Forbes Hill Drive to the end from 7:00 am to 11:00 am
- Park Drive from the south Summit Centre parking lot to Brunel Road (by Muskoka Heritage Place) from 6:30 am to 11:00 am
Intermittent stoppages and Share the Road on Sunday June 22, 2025, include:
- Brunel Road from Park Drive (near Muskoka Heritage Place) to Townline Road from 8:10 am to 10:15 am
- Brunel Road from Townline Road for 15 kms south (approaching South Portage Road) from 8:20 am to 9:45 am
- Muskoka Road 10 at the Brunel Road intersection from 8:30 am to 10:15 am
Portions of the Summit Centre parking lot will be restricted from Saturday June 21, 2025, at 12:00 pm to Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 12:00 pm.
For more information on the Trimuskokan Classic Short Course Triathlon and Try-a-Tri, route maps visit the event web page on www.trimuskoka.com/trimuskokan
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If you want to see the impact (positive) on our local businesses I suggest visiting grocery stores and restaurants the day before the race, and the afternoon following the race. These places are full of athletes and their supporters. Hotels are full, resorts are full, short term rentals are full.
I’m impacted by every race, as I live down Brunel, and have children that need to get to work in town. Typically we plan ahead and ask them to book the day off, sometimes we are not so lucky.
I suggest the town finally makes East Browns line and West Browns line a proper through street, this will help ease traffic during these events, and will also help residents navigate around town easier the rest of the year.
My previous comment was to point out the fact that the people who organize these ‘-athons’ seem stuck on Brunel Rd. There are no other routes that can be used? So the same people along the same route get the same closures over and over.
I was a peddle-pusher when I was younger but gave up the ‘peddle your head off to give your ass a ride’ program once I could ride a motorcycle or drive a truck.
But to tell me that you might be able to qualify GOOD and BAD people by whether they do or don’t ride bicycles is a bit much! I have a grand-son who has a big old gas guzzler with oversized, mud sucking tires. Also a daughter in law who is a spandex speedster. I think they are both good people. Love them dearly.
Myself, I have been known to use a jet-ski, a 2 wheeler, a 3 wheeler, a 4 wheeler and a variety of canoes and boats and motors. Just never closed a road. Touched wood.
This brings hundreds of trained athletes, their families and friends, to the area for a healthy event that also raises funds to help others become or stay healthy. But it is BAD because a few roads are closed for up to 4 hours on a Sunday morning, and maybe not enough money is spent at those local businesses that made no effort to attract their business.
On the other hand, we are told that GOOD tourists are those who come to the area in gas guzzling oversized pickups with jet skis or snowmobiles in tow. Never mind the noise pollution and air pollution. No roads are closed and, unlike real athletes, these people supposedly help the local economy by spending lots of money on gas, McDonalds and booze.
I can feel for the residents along these routes. Like a recurring and reasonably punctual boil these races and runs are back to interrupt your roads.
They interrupt me not at all and I’m sure most people kinda’ just go with it. But every year and pretty much the same place? Guess the organizers figure you took it 12 or 15 times so you can handle 13 or 16 times.
And they tell us that these ‘-athalons’ fetch in the money. Which I guess will never be proven. It brings in lots of people I guess but do they really spend? They come with their own equipment. Stay with friends who have stayed with them. Nibble energy bars from Costco and Walmart, which they brought. Tipple water that is given free. Unless they fall off the health kick and visit a bar, they might not even try a local brew. Likely a Lite or non-alcoholic! That body-temple you know.
If the organizers were to route some of these runs through the new subdivisions, that have pretty good roads, the citizens would be stoning them in the street. The indignation.
But the regulars can take it. I salute you.
Ask me if this event makes even the most tiny effect on my day or business. Oh, don’t bother it does not.
Thank you for posting this. For those of you who aren’t aware of our event, the TriMuskokan, it is a homegrown grassroots triathlon that our local triathlon club organizes to raise money for the MSCLE project which is raising money to install publicly accessible fitness parks for everyone to use completely free of charge. This project kicks off on June 26 of this year with the first part being installed down at Avery Beach. Follow @move.fitness.park on Instagram and Facebook for more information and more updates!