ATV/Multiuse Trails - Greater
Clarenville/Multiuse Trails -
Greater Clarenville
Featured Trail - Clarenville to Terra Nova to Kepenkeck Lake
In this video, we travel the approximately 110 km route from Clarenville to Terra Nova village and then up through the Terra Nova River valley to Kepenkeck lake. Here we see evidence of the area's rich logging history. The Terra Nova River valley stretches some 140 km from the river mouth in Glovertown to its headwaters in the heart of the Middle Ridge Wildlife Reserve. It includes some big, uniquely named lakes like Nanedock Lake, Dog Pond, Kepenkeck Lake, Lake St. John, Mollyguajeck Lake, and Terra Nova Lake.
This waterway provided a natural highway for early central Newfoundland logging and pulp milling operations. The Town of Terra Nova was the most easterly Anglo-Newfoundland Development Company logging division and the logging division farthest from Grand Falls.
Terra Nova started life as a sawmilling community. A sawmill was first established there in 1894. It was only later that wood was harvested for paper making. Wood was cut and boomed on Mollyguajeck Lake, Lake Kippenkek, John’s Pond, and Lake St. John. =
By 1960 the A.N.D Company also had a sawmill set up at Lake St. John and that mill went on to become the first operational plant for what is now Sexton’s Lumber Company.
In the mid-1960s Pulpwood operations had ceased and the area was focused solely on sawmilling - much of which ended in the 1970s.
You can still clearly see the traces of the past in Terra Nova Town and up through the Valley. Today’s trip will explore some of that.
Route:
Terra Nova River
Terra Nova Lake
Pinsent’s Pond
Mollyguajeck Lake
Lake St. John
Kepenkeck Lake
Featured Trail - Clarenville to Trinity
For motorized or non-motorized trail riders, Clarenville has the unique advantage of offering trail routes in three directions: South East towards the Avalon, North West towards Terra Nova, and East towards Trinity/Bonavista.
In this episode of Making Tracks: Multiuse trails in the Clarenville region, we'll take a route that brings us to the historic and picturesque town of Trinity. This 180 km return trip takes us along the Bonavista branch of the T'railway to Lethbridge, then along forestry roads to Trinity. Come along for the ride!
Featured Trail - Clarenville to Sabena Crash Site
On September 17, 1946, a Sabena Airlines Douglas DC-4 took off from Shannon Ireland en route to New Your via Gander, Newfoundland. The plane was carrying 44 people.
In the early morning hours of September 18th, the plane's approach to Gander was hampered by fog and drizzle. Disoriented, the plane's crew flew low, hitting the forest and crashing 35 km south of Gander.
27 people were killed in the crash while 16 passengers and one crew member survived. It took several days to find the crash site and several more days to rescue the survivors. The dead were buried at the site - now known as St. Martin's in the Woods.
Come along for a ride from Clarenville to the Sabena Crash site - 135km from Clarenville.
Crash Information
https://www.hiddennewfoundland.ca/sabena-airliner-crash
CBC Archival Report https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2694937774
Incident Report: https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19460918-0
Featured Trail: Clarenville Perimeter Tour
Take a tour around the perimeter of Clarenville. This 46km tour brings from Clarenville westward on the T'railway to Trynor's Pit, around the White Hills Forestry Road, along the LIL power line and back to Clarenville along the Trailway. This is a great tour for biking or ATVs - or in winter, ski or snowmobile.
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