Over the years I have visited the trestle many times. As a young man in the 70's we use to drive a Volkswagen Beetle across it from the Cobble Hill side to Shawnigan Lake to swim. Later in the 80's and 90's as a television producer we did many stories about it's history and the vandalism done to the structure, then to the efforts to save the trestle in the 2000's.
Kinsol Trestle Re-Opens July 31 2011 marked the official opening of the Trestle to the public. Hundreds of visitors attended the ceremonies that completed one more link in the 16,000 kilometer Trans Canada Trail. | It was also visited in Sept, 2011 by the Governor General of Canada David Johnson who commented about the trail and the Kinsol Trestle, "We are just so proud of what you people have done and it's an inspiration, of course, for the whole entire country, to get this thing entirely finished by 2017 or before." |