Snowmobiling Spotlight

From the serious to the funny, we counted 244 reasons to get your 2026 Ontario Snowmobile Trail Permit before fees go up on December 1st!

From the serious to the funny, we counted 214 reasons to get your 2026 Ontario Snowmobile Trail Permit before fees go up on November 1st!

It’s time to acknowledge that the 2025 Ontario Snowmobile Season has been one for the record books, delivering some of the best conditions seen in the last decade. Snowmobile enthusiasts across the province enjoyed an exceptional winter, thanks to the collaborative efforts of snowmobile clubs and landowners and of course, Mother Nature. To celebrate and […]

By the end of the 2023 season, we’d ridden every loop of Algoma’s OFSC trail system. My favorites were The Northern Experience, The Deer Trail and The North Shore Scenic. Geologic formations amidst rugged terrain surfaces, simulated well, that of old mushrooms (chaga), yet on a whole different scale; exciting, to say the least-but definitely […]

For the first weekend of March, we met friends at the Sand Dam Rd. parking and staging site about 25 kilometres north of North Bay on Highway 11, at the intersection of TOP A/D and TOP A102Q. As we packed our gear onto the sleds for our overnight getaway, the clouds started to part and […]

As a couple who ride together, we enjoy the beauty of being out on our trails taking in what the OFSC has to offer.  After a long 25 years, we decided to get back into snowmobiling in December of 2020. We made a plan to purchase one snowmobile to use to make sure that we […]

  Many snowmobilers are upset about not being able to go trail riding whenever and wherever they want this season – and today’s rain across most of Southern Ontario won’t help. But all too often their social media annoyance is misdirected at OFSC clubs and volunteers. But that’s neither fair or justified. Getting 30,000 kilometres […]

It was a beautiful sunny day with a crisp chill in the air. We loaded the snowmobile in Cambridge and headed to Elmira to ride the OFSC trails. It was my first time riding in that area and my son’s, Jackson, first time out on the trails.  We completed a 150km loop, stopping in St. […]

I recently completed a loop around Lady Evelyn Lake with my wife and a friend. It was my wife’s very first saddle bag trip, so I wanted to make sure this was a trip she would enjoy and remember. I personally think this loop has some of the best trails in Ontario. We set out […]

My husband is an avid snowmobiler, so naturally, I have also taken up this wonderful winter activity. The past several years have been jammed-packed with snowmobiling in Erin, Orangeville, Timmins, South River and Muskoka, to name a few. I am a nurse, so in recent years it seems to get more difficult getting out on […]

I met my beautiful wife when we were both 16 years old. I knew she was the one right away, and we both said our vows at the young age of 23. We will be celebrating our 40th anniversary this September! We started sledding with my family when I was a teenager up in Muskoka […]

I would like to shine a light on a personal milestone that my wife, Pauline, from Timmins, Ontario, has accomplished - surpassing the 100,000-kilometre mark! Pauline has been trail riding snowmobiles since 1992. To date, she has clocked a total of 103,600 kilometres. During this time, we have taken many week-long vacations with our sleds. […]