Have Your Say on the Hamilton Boulevard Motorized Multi-Use Trail
14 November 2025 – Klondike Snowmobile Association
The City of Whitehorse and the Klondike Snowmobile Association are working together on a pilot project for winter maintenance of the Hamilton Boulevard Motorized Multi-Use Trail (MMU) in Whitehorse, and we’d love to hear what you think about it.
An Engage Whitehorse page has been set up for everyone to have their say, check it out today at https://www.engagewhitehorse.ca/hamilton-boulevard-paved-trail?tool=qanda#tool_tab.
Normally MMU trails are left snow covered during winter, with volunteers grooming the snow for winter trail users to enjoy. In recent years however, there has been increased demand for the Hamilton Boulevard MMU trail to be plowed down to pavement year-round. While this would be a great benefit to some trail users, it would exclude others entirely.
So far the Klondike Snowmobile Association has successfully advocated for the trail to remain open and useable for winter activities and commuting options. Our goal is to work with snowmobilers, cyclists, walkers, and others to find a practical, fair and science-based solution. We realize that nobody can be perfect all the time, but we can aim to have a trail that is 80% or better, 80% of the time, for 80% of the potential users.
The pilot project is an experiment on how to achieve this. The plan is for Klondike Snowmobile Association volunteers to establish a thin and hard packed base layer of snow on the trail surface as soon as snow conditions allow. This has already started. Once that base layer is established, then City of Whitehorse crews will plow any additional snow that falls on top of that base layer. They intend to plow it on a priority 1 basis.
Our hope is this will be just enough snow for winter trail users to operate on while still being a firm enough surface for other modes of transportation to safely use.
Looking ahead long term, it is possible that there will be a second trail developed, so one can be plowed to pavement for foot and wheel traffic and the other can remain snow covered for various winter activities. This will take substantial time, effort and funding, none of which is in place yet. In the mean time, our volunteers will continue to do the best we can with the tools we have.
Do you use the Hamilton Boulevard MMU trail? If so, head over to the Engage Whitehorse website and have your say this winter! https://www.engagewhitehorse.ca/hamilton-boulevard-paved-trail?tool=qanda#tool_tab