Prince Edward Point National Wildlife Area.
Trail, parking and habitat improvements at a national wildlife area on Lake Ontario, building on its visitor use and accessibility plans.
- client
- Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- location
- Prince Edward County, Ontario
- year
- 2023 to 2026
- status
- complete
- thinc's role
- landscape architect: site improvement strategy, detailed design, contract documents, permitting support, contract administration
Prince Edward Point National Wildlife Area sits at the eastern tip of Prince Edward County on Lake Ontario. The Canadian Wildlife Service retained thinc design in 2023 to turn the area's new visitor use and trail plan and its accessibility review into built improvements.
The work started with a site-wide look at parking, circulation, signage, trails and seating across the area's nature experience areas. From there we took the first phase through detailed design, tender documents, Species at Risk Act permitting support and a habitat creation plan with vernal pools and native planting.
The built work adds a new parking lot and connector trails, resurfaces the beach loop and other trails in granular and limestone, installs p-gates to manage vehicle access, and removes old exclusion fencing. Construction ran within a November to March window over the winter of 2025 to 2026, with thinc design as contract administrator.
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