Pipeline Trail Hamilton
1203 Main Street East by Huxley Avenue North L8H 1R4 Hamilton, ON, Canada

Great News! The park is getting a makeover! What is your dream for the park? Think about what you want to keep, what you want to change, what you would like to... add. Are there safety or accessibility concerns? How about fountains, gardens, benches? Remember, a beautiful, functional park is a positive feature to home owners. City of Hamilton planners will be meeting with the public at some point. Let's be prepared so we get the park we want and need. See more

What's blooming at the Secret Garden? Penstemons! And other things are about to bust out. Take a look but remember to keep a safe distance from one another :) Also, please remember not to litter when you pass by on the trail. Volunteers work hard to keep it looking nice for everyone's enjoyment.

We are missing the sign for the pollinator garden. It is important to the volunteers maintaining the garden. Please return it to its place on the trail!

Now happening! Interactive art installations at Andrew Warburton Park and snowflake hanging this afternoon at Crown Point Parkette at 300 Roxborough starting at 4 pm! Can't wait to see you!

This is today! Join us at 2pm https://www.facebook.com/events/635971040247074/?ti=cl

Great news! Another Public Information Centre (PIC) #2 has been scheduled for the upgrades at Andrew Warburton Memorial Park. This is a chance to have your say! Here are the details: Public Information Centre #2 Park Design Presentation Date: Thursday, December 5, 2019 Time: 6 to 8 pm... Location: Sir Winston Churchill Recreation Centre, Room A The city would like to gather your feedback on the park’s conceptual design and to review themes, scale and possible locations for a future work of public art in the park. https://www.hamilton.ca//im/andrew-warburton-memorial-park

From the Jane's Walk this evening, photos by Chloe.

Hey Trail enthusiasts, do you also like to crochet? Want to learn how? Check out these workshops - they are part of a winter arts festival happening on the trail in February.

This was the hill to die on today. It's now called Butthill on the Pipeline Trail. If you smoke, kindly remember that the trail is not an ashtray. The butts do not biodegrade and they pollute our waterways. Thanks!

Don't forget to take the survey and come to the meeting about the Andrew Warburton Memorial Park upgrades. The meeting is this Thursday, October 3 from 6-8 at Sir Winston Churchill Rec Centre Room A. It's a great opportunity to share your thoughts about what you'd like to see at the park and on the trail that passes through. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8HF7JH7

Call for volunteers for Sew Hungry - make it a green event!

Jane Jamnik will be your guide for this walk on the trail, please join her if you can!

Great news everyone! Construction of the Crown Point Parkette (formerly known as the AM Cunningham Parkette) on the Pipeline Trail will begin this week and will be completed by the end of May if the weather cooperates. The work involves the demolition of the existing parkette and construction of a new one, including: play equipment, playground safety surfacing, armourstone seat walls, asphalt pathways, landscaping, signage, and benches. So excited to see the new parkette!!!

Thanks to Chris and Rikki at the city, the door to the little free library has been replaced! Doesn't it look great?

Thank-you to all who came out on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon to keep the trail clean and beautiful! Together we weeded, cleared-up some branches from the wind storm, and collected some garbage and recycling. The trail has never looked better!

Next Saturday, September 22 we are having our annual fall clean up on the trail in partnership with the Crown Point Garden Club from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Meet behind Dairy Queen at Main and Ottawa or on the Pipeline Trail at Strathearne Ave. Supplies (gloves and bags) will be provided. The group plans to go out for dinner afterwards.

Today we had some help bringing colour to the new little free library. Thanks goes to Shawn Wood for the brush work and to Bev Wagar and Bethany Osborne for the donation of paint.

Today we were excited to be featured in the Hamilton Spectator in this fantastic article written by Jon Wells. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to making the Pipeline Trail the place to be! Stay tuned to see what's next... https://www.thespec.com//8741284-hamilton-s-pipeline-trai/

Meant to share this batch of pics from Saturday's mural unveiling - captured by Ute Schmid Jones. The mural is located on a shed just east of Fairfield Ave.

This is tonight, a portion of the tour will take place on the trail. Hope to see you there!

Check out scenes from yesterday's garden planting near Little Bethel Church and Indwell Strathearne Suites followed by a mural unveiling on Bethany J. Osborne's shed, captured so well by Ute Schmid Jones. Thanks to our volunteers and community supporters for making these things possible: Hamilton Naturalists' Club, City of Hamilton, Red Tree Artists' Collective, Ontario Arts Council, Indwell, Little Bethel.

I'm looking to connect with the person who calls themselves 'GHOUL'. Not sure if it was a wise decision to deface a sign with nail polish in a garden that is ma...intained by volunteers along a beloved neighbourhood trail, but it is likely you are seeking to be involved in your neighbourhood in some way. Maybe a wall for street art could be part of the Pipeline Trail somewhere. Anyway, I'd like to hear your ideas. So let's chat. See more

AM Cunningham Parkette (along the trail at 300 Roxborough) is due for an upgrade and on the morning of June 6th, City Staff will be at the playground between 8 - 9:30 am. Take a look at the draft conceptual design and stop by on Wednesday morning to share your views! For more info, visit the project website at www.hamilton.ca/AMCunninghamParkette

Check out this beautiful print by Patricia Davidson-Horwath. You can make one too, come see us at Dunsmure and Province St N until 4 pm and help us design a crosswalk.

Across the Street, happening now, make your own print on the trail at Dunsmure & Province St N. Help us design a crosswalk.

And here is the new little library, waiting to be painted and filled with books. Thanks so much to city staff for making this happen! Rikki Hincks Frith

Coming soon, to a parkette near you a brand new little free library at Geraldine Copps Parkette on the Pipeline Trail at Kenilworth. We are looking for artists/painters to add some colour to this blank canvas. Any volunteers?

Hey trail lovers, this is tomorrow afternoon, anticipating that the forecasted rain will hold off - hope to see you on the ride!

Check out the fantastic spring events happening on the Pipeline Trail, guaranteed to be fun, whether you like riding bikes, gardening or making art, there is something for everyone!

Thanks to everyone who pitched in yesterday afternoon to keep things clean along the trail and on Kenilworth Ave. Go team!

Please share with family and friends.

March Social hosted by our friends at HRIC, happening on Friday, March 23, potluck dinner from 5 - 6 pm, with drumming & dancing to follow from 6 - 7:30 pm, hope to see you there!

Ute Schmid Jones captured yesterday's Pinhole photography workshop so splendidly, take a look! Thanks to all who came out to learn with Brian Piitz.

The next free art workshop, Introduction to Digital Pinhole Photography with Brian Piitz will be happening on January 20th at the Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology in the Woodshed building, from 1 pm - 4 pm. With the introduction of digital photography in the 1980s, analogue photography and the attendant hands on darkroom practices have steadily been in decline. However in recent years there has been a renewed interest in analogue photography and in particular with 19th... century practices. This workshop offers an opportunity to bridge the divide between digital and analogue technologies. Employing a pinhole body cap on a digital camera and referencing the earliest ‘camera obscura’ like apparatuses of photography the workshop will offer participants the opportunity to engage in the act of photography without access to the many electronic and automatic functions of the digital camera. Participants will be introduced to the creative potential of pinhole photography through presentations, discussion and demonstrations on how to transform their digital camera into a pinhole camera. This workshop has been made possible through the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Hamilton. Admission is free but pre-registration is required. To register, please contact Bethany Osborne [email protected] or 647-248-3893. When: Saturday, January 20th, 2018, 1 pm - 4 pm Where: Hamilton Museum of Steam & Technology, Woodshed building, 900 Woodward Ave

A fantastic read shared by our friends at Park People. What can we learn from this example? https://www.citylab.com//how-one-latin-america-best-/8246/

So honoured to share that the Pipeline Trail Master Plan received an Award of Merit at this year's City of Hamilton Urban Design Awards. Congratulations to the design team and to the passionate trail lovers in both Crown Point and Homeside neighbourhoods!

The social element of a trail offers staging for gatherings, and wide-angle framings of notions of community. Vocal Communion, led by Klyde Broox is part of the Art of Creating on the Pipeline Trail project led by artists from Red Tree artists collective, of which he is a member. The project seeks to explore ‘community art possibilities through a series of workshops themed around the Pipeline Trail. Happening at the ARCH this Saturday afternoon from 1 - 4pm, participants i...n the workshop will experience dubpoetry’s facilities for convening communal dialogue, linking and strengthening varying senses of community by generating voice-sharing collective literation. We will enjoy poetry as a very vocal form of public art and a platform for connecting energies. Voice occupies public space and represents political power. Dubpoetic discourse rotates perpendicular power paradigms into horizontal or circular conceptualizations to facilitate reciprocal energy flow between central and peripheral locations, and is therefore especially useful in neutralizing alienation. Despite the definitive cultural specificity of its mystique which is rooted Afro-aesthetic sensibilities, dubpoetry’s techniques ( like those of dubmusic) are trans-culturally portable and can orchestrate barrier dismantling, bridge-building, and the construction of intersectional nexuses of empathy. The construction of intersectional empathy encourages and strengthens the reciprocation of widening senses of communal inter-connection.

The next art workshop is coming up soon, registration details are in the poster.

Looking for something fun and creative to do this weekend at Gage Park? The Children's Museum is hosting a clay workshop with Tara Bursey on Saturday morning from 10 am - 12 noon. It's free to attend but please register with Bethany Osborne through email or phone her to confirm.

Join your neighbours this morning for a quick trail cleanup starting at 10 am. There will be two teams, one meeting behind Dairy Queen on Main and London N and the other at the trailhead at Strathearne (south of Barton). We will meet in the middle around Kenilworth. Bags and gloves will be provided. Let's make our trails and alleyways beautiful!

What a super awesome parade that was last night! Thanks to everyone who came out to honour water, light and friendship along the Pipeline Trail. Many thanks to ...Hric Hamilton, City of Hamilton Canada 150 Grant, Neighbourhood Action Strategy, Ontario Arts Council, Hamilton Dialogues, DeLight, Indwell, Fletcher's Fruit Farm, Sound Effect Crew, DJ Jooce, and so many wonderful volunteers! Please tag anyone I may have missed :) See more

3 more sleeps and it's parade time. We end the parade here at the new parkette on Kenilworth. There will be dancing.

Hamilton's Pipeline Trail has gone from an idea to a Jane's Walk to a master-plan and $4 million in planned investments. How did it all happen and where's it g...oing? Read: "You can do anything in Hamilton: The story of the Pipeline Trail Planning Team" Pipeline Trail Hamilton https://parkpeople.ca/archives/7078

Two years ago, volunteers planted a garden on the trail as part of 100in1Day Hamilton. Today we are planting another garden a little ways up the street from where the trail crosses Kenilworth Ave. Join us as we plant paradise on Kenilworth at Our Lady of Vietnam and Holy Family Parish, 1393 Cannon St. East

Look for the Pipeline Trail in this great read: "There are also places where voids remain voids but their uses have evolved, adding functions as parks or walking paths. Above: a greenway follows the open route of a city water pipe in Hamilton, Ontario" http://99percentinvisible.org//ghost-lanes-angled-scarchi/

Happy Earth Day and Beautiful Alleys cleanup day! Join the Friends of the Pipeline Trail and the Crown Point Garden Club at 10 a.m. to tidy up your neighbourhood trail. The east crew meets at Strathearne and the west crew meets at the trailhead (behind Dairy Queen). We will join up somewhere around Kenilworth. Gloves and bags are provided, see you there!

Spring has arrived and now that the snow has receded, the garbage along the trail has become visible once again so our first trail clean-up is coming up on Earth Day: Saturday, April 22 starting at 10 am. We will repeat last year’s fall clean-up strategy with one team starting on London N behind Dairy Queen in Crown Point and the other at Strathearne in Homeside and meeting somewhere in the middle. Many hands make light work so hope to see you then. Gloves and garbage bags will be provided.

Wouldn't this be so cool to see on the Pipeline Trail?

Some important lessons here.

Our friends in Homeside Hub and the Crown Point Garden Club are working on a special project with Green Venture, happening down the street on Kenilworth. Please consider helping them out by answering the survey posted below: Depave Paradise on Kenilworth: From Parking Lot to Paradise We're going to Depave Paradise at Our Lady of Vietnam and Holy Family Parish. The corner of Kenilworth and Brittania is getting a green face lift! Green Venture is partnering with the Parish, Ho...meside Community Hub and the Crown Point Garden Club to remove asphalt from a section of the parking lot along the street and replace it with green space including trees, shrubs and native plants. Contact Laura for more information about this exciting Spring 2017 project at [email protected]. We want your input, take our survey here: https://goo.gl/forms/ckX3zlaa2kKLFkn83 See more

Under construction but soon to be a new parkette along the trail! So excited to see it when work is completed.

Meant to post this much earlier (this picture is from mid-October), when the gardens along the trail were attracting monarch butterflies.

Pipeline Parade 2016

Pipeline Trail fall clean-up tomorrow Sept. 17 @ 11 am. Crown Point Team meet at trailhead on London N (behind Dairy Queen) & Homeside Team meet at trailhead on Strathearne (south of Barton). Many hands make light work, join in and meet your friends of the Pipeline Trail!