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Snowmobile Trail
Finding the Ideal Spend $78,500,000
The ideal snowmobile trail
should begin and end at the same
point, should be between fifteen
(15) and twenty-five(25) miles
in length over wooded, rolling
terrain, and should be between
five (5) and ten(10) feet in width.
That is a summary of a sur-
vey of snowmobile owners rec-
ently completed by Evinrude
Motors, in cooperation with the
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and
other public land management
agencies.
Indicating the devotion snow-
mobile owners have to their
sport, some sixty-seve n per
cent (67%) indicated they would
be willing to trave 1 between
twenty-five (25) and fifty (50)
.miles, to take advantage of good
snowmobile trails, and another
twenty-two per cent (22%) said
they would travel up to one hund-
red (100) miles.
Over ninety-three per cent
(93%) favored a trail that would
end at the starting point. A
majority said the ideal trail would
have scenic spots as an
attraction, but only a few
indicated a preference for wild-
life.
Major facilities at the base for
a snowmobile trail should be a
warming hut, service and fuel,
and a restaurant. Naturally,
there was concern about plenty of
parking space for automobiles
and trailers and some desire for
overnight accommodations.
The major safety suggestion
was a registration system for all
snowmobiles using the trail. This
woJld give accurate information
on entry to and exit from the
trail. Some thirty-seven per
cent (37%) of those responding
to the survey felt that there
should be a snowmobile • patrol
and emergency shelters along the
trail.
Almost sixty-nine per cent
(69%) said danger areas along the
trail should be marked. Trail
directional arrows were favored
by a majority, with these mark-
ers appearing every mile. Al-
most thirty per cent (30%) favored
some sort of mileage marker that
would give distance figures to
the end of the trail, or other
objective. Ninety-five per cent'
(95%) of those responding to, the
survey felt the distance Mark-
ers should appear at least every
five (5) miles, with most favor-
ing no more than ever y two (2)
miles.
With all these suggestions on
the kind of trail they would like
to have available for use of
their snowmobile, how much
would the average owner be wil-
ling to pay for the privilege?
An overwhelming majority of
ninety per cent (90%) favor a
fee of no more than $2.00 for
one-day use of the trail. In
fact; forty-one per cent (41%)
.felt that $1.00 would be the limit.
However, one respondent did feel
that the price should depenctupon
the length of the trail and the
services rendered.
Ontario snowmobile owners
spent about 78 1/2 million dollars
last year, said Tourism and In-
formation Minister James Auld,
in a summary from a report on
snowmobiling in Ontario for the
1969/70 season. This total doe's
not include expenditures gener-
ated by renting of snow vehicles.
Mr. Auld said the study, put
out by the Research Branch of the
Department of Tourism and
Information, showed the average
purchase price per snowmobile
was $840.00, and total capital
expenditure including clothes,
trailers, etc. was an average of
$1,200.00 per snowmobile owner.
The report said Seasonal
expenditure which covered fees,
accommodation, meals, and trips
was an extra $153.10 for each
vehicle.
About 100,000 snowmobile '
owners in Ontario registered
113,289 snow vehicles by the end
of March, 1970. The report said
89.4 per cent of the owners
owned one snowmobile only, 10
per cent of the owners owned two
snowmobiles, and 0.6 per cent
of the owners owned three or
more snowmobiles. The average
age of owners was about 40 years,
and a family had two children.
On the average, there were 3.4
snowmobilers per family. It could
be estimated, the report said, that
there were 340,000 snowmobilers
in Ontario last season, or one out
of every twenty, persons in
Ontario used a snowmobile some
time or another during the
1969/70 winter season.
The report found that most
snowmobilers were satisfied with
the number and quality of areas
available to snowmobiling (78.1036
satisfied, 21.1% not satisfied).
Half of the owners came from
urban areas (51.2% and the rest
from rural areas (48.8%).
The average number of days
snowmobiling per season was 41.9
with an average of 3.7 fiours per
day which, gives 155 homrs per
owner per season . The report
said 40 per cent of the snowmo-
bilers spent a n average 12.9
nights out of residence due to
snowmobiling, and the usage of
the snowmobile at.. night was 31
per cent. The• Minister said only •
3.7 per cent used public roads
while snowmobiling, whereas
only 0.9 per cent wanted to Use
public roads at all. 97.3 per
cent of all snowmobiles had not
been involved in a major accident
during the season.
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