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"Stretching over 2100 km along the Canadian shores of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron and the Niagara, Detroit and St. Lawrence Rivers, the Great Lakes Waterfront Trail connects 114 communities and hundreds of parks and natural areas including wetlands, forests and beaches.  Created to protect, connect and celebrate the world's largest group of freshwater lakes, the Trail has become a well-loved and used recreation, fitness and green transportation amenity and a world-renowned tourism attraction." -- Waterfront Regeneration Trust


Twinned Trails

The Waterfront Trail is concurrent with the TransCanada Trail along the shoreline of Lake Ontario through South Mississauga.  The trail is presently a combination of paved multi-use trail and residential streets that serve as road connections.  See interactive maps at both links for mutual sections through Clarkson, Port Credit and Lakeview.  Below: Maps of the Mississauga sections via the Downloadable Maps webpage of the Waterfront Trail website.

 


Waterfront Trail connection: Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area 🏞️

[Updated: May 23, 2026]

▶ PUBLIC OPENING: Saturday, May 30, 2026 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.  Event details (including cycling options).

Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) and the Region of Peel, with the support of the City of Mississauga and technical expertise from TRCA have collaborated on a lakefill project, as inspired by the late Councillor Jim Tovey, to create a new Conservation Area along the Mississauga shoreline, where there was previously no public access to Lake Ontario.  Morphology 2026: A Photographic Exhibition documents the creation and evolution of JTLCA over nine years.  ▶ See: FLYER.

The new 26-acre naturalized green space and wetland will connect with Marie Curtis Park to the east (in Etobicoke), and later the Lakeview lands to the west, via the re-routed Waterfront Trail that will now by-pass the G.E. Booth Waste Water Treatment Plant, a long-time barrier to the Lakeview waterfront.

▶ Credit Valley Conservation's JTLCA webpage.



Waterfront Trail extension through JTLCA: Cycling guidelines

[Updated: May 23, 2026; July 2, 2026]

The Waterfront Trail through Lakeview in SE Mississauga will finally be connected with the Lake Ontario waterfront with the completion of an extension through Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area (JTLCA).  The Waterfront Trail previously detoured along busy Lakeshore Road, away (north) from Lake Ontario.  Now, 1.9 kilometres of the Waterfront Trail has been rerouted closer to the water, creating a safer, more scenic experience.

After the Park opened in May 2026, trails were closed on a rotating basis June 8-26, 2026 for line-painting (NOTICE), re-opening at last on June 27, 2026.  For cyclists planning to explore this scenic extension of the Waterfront Trail, Credit Valley Conservation has provided some guidelines:

CYCLING NOTES: For now, the Waterfront Trail is not a through-route.  In the future, access will open from the Lakeview Village Parks development once construction is complete.  Visitors must enter and exit the conservation area through Marie Curtis Park to the east.  Cycling, e-bikes and e-scooters are only permitted on the Waterfront Trail within JTLCA (there are an additional 1.7 km of side trails for pedestrians only).  The Trail is suitable for new and experienced cyclists.  This is a multi-use trail.  Riders are required to travel at a safe speed and must follow local by-laws and posted trail rules.  Trail surface is primarily asphalt, with two small sections of wood decking for bridge crossings.  CVC's JTLCA Map (1p PDF).  Source: Explore Nature by the Water at Jim Tovey Lakeview Conservation Area.

▶ More info: Waterfront Trail extension through JTLCA: Background.

▶ See also from: Park Trails

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Waterfront Trail extension through JTLCA: Background

[Updated: May 23, 2026]

Originally, the project was called the Lakeview Waterfront Connection.
At left: Aerial MAP of project area.  Source: LWC Newsletter (Edition #5, November 2013).

Cycling advocates were represented on the LWC Community Liaison Committee (CLC) - including 1 cycling advocate now participating in MCN! - which met in an advisory capacity since early 2012 as the Environmental Assessment (EA), design concept, storage of fill, construction plan and future uses of the lakefill site have evolved.  From the beginning, cyclists have advocated for cycling trails along the Lake Ontario shoreline, as well as further inland, in order to accommodate both cyclists travelling through the site on the re-routed Waterfront Trail, and those riding to the Lakeview Conservation Area as a destination.

At left: Concept image of cyclists and pedestrians along the restored Lakeview waterfront connection.  Methods to ensure harmony between cyclists and pedestrians along the waterfront pathway are planned (originally, cycling was to be excluded from the waterfront portion).

NOTE: The network of trails, bridges and boardwalks was funded in part by the Government of Canada's Active Transportation Fund.  Click for images.

The City of Mississauga received a $17 million grant from the Government of Canada’s Active Transportation Fund toward expanding the TransCanada Trail system, linking Lakefront Promenade Park to the west and JTLCA to the east.  An AT bridge is planned with the continuation of the Waterfront Trail/TransCanada Trail. See: 'Waterfront Trail and pedestrian bridge EA' section & slide deck at City's Developing Parks in Lakeview Village webpage.
▶ See also from: Bridges and Underpasses - JTLCA



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