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Gabriola Folklife Village

GaLLT Walks —Village area loop (3 km)

Walk up a lengthy hill from the ferry or park in the Agi Hall lower lot near the top of the hill. Throughout the summer until Thanksgiving weekend, visit our Farmer’s market there from 10am to 1pm each Saturday. Keep to the right, taking South Road with the post office and The Women’s Institute Hall (built as Gabriola’s school in the 1920s) on your left. Ahead on your right is the Gabriola Museum, where First Nations petroglyphs have been reproduced in concrete. Rubbing kits can be purchased at the museum. Continue along South Road past the Police Station on your right and then past Good Earth Garden on your left. Take next left onto Dogwood Crescent. Continue past Pinewood and then turn left on Redwood to the end. Trail starts immediately to the right of a private drive, where a board crosses the ditch. A small sign indicates “Rollo/School”. The trail here can be wet and muddy. Keep a fence on your left and bear right at first fork. This drier section connects to a boardwalk in the grounds of the Gabriola Commons. Take right branch on the boardwalk and turn left after passing through the gap in the fence. Continue with the fence on your left to the Rollo Seniors Centre parking lot and North Road, with the Elementary School across the road. Turn left on North Road toward the village centre and on to Agi Hall, or turn right to do the Tin Can Alley Connector Loop.

Walk #8—The Commons trail

The Gabriola Commons welcomes you to walk their trails and use the area to connect to other neighborhoods (see #7 Village Area Walk.) The walk shown is a trail running from the parking lot of Huxley Park (tennis courts) off North Road near the village centre. It connects to the same Redwood Road  mentioned in Walk #7 passing near the parking lot of the Rollo Seniors Centre. This connects to the boardwalk and links the east portion of the Commons (house, gardens, orchards etc.) to the southeast portion (allotment gardens) and to the labyrinth just south of the orchard overlooking the pond near the entry of the Poetry Gabriola Yurt.