Rainbow Routes issues 20-km 'Camino' challenge in Sudbury
Trails group celebrates opening of 9-hour trek across the city
The Rainbow Routes Association is launching a challenge to get more people hiking trails across Sudbury.
They call it the Sudbury Camino, and it's named after the Camino de Santiago, a famous pilgrimage route in Spain.
Sudbury's route will be a 20 kilometre trek between Moonlight Beach and Robinson Park, using a portion of the Trans-Canada Trail.
The opening of the Camino is the association's way of celebrating the completion of the cross country trail, Ra'anna Brown, the Rainbow Routes' trail plan coordinator said.
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Brown hiked the slightly longer version of the the Camino, she said, which took about nine hours.
"I had no idea what [the Sudbury Camino] would look like, but for a trail that is so surrounded by city it is so peaceful, so quaint," Brown said.
"It is such a beautiful hidden gem, that I really wish people would get out and use it more."
The Sudbury Camino challenge can be completed all at once during a Rainbow Routes hike on August 12, Brown said, or it can be done in stages between August 1 and 26.
People who hike the trail can get "passports" from three library branches — New Sudbury, Mackenzie and South Branch — like visitors to the Camino de Santiago receive when they've reached milestones along the trail.
For more information about the Sudbury Camino Challenge, click here.
with files from Angela Gemmill