Corduroy Roads Made Travelling a Bumpy, Bone-Rattling Experience!
Maryboro Lodge: The Fenelon Museum Collection
Date: ca. 2007
Among the earliest means of transporting tourists in present-day Kawartha Lakes were the dreaded corduroy roads. Fashioned from logs laid side by side through the bush, they were notoriously unpleasant to cross. Traces of corduroy roads survived well into the twentieth century. This example was found on the 3rd Concession of Somerville Township between Hyler Line and Schell Line – about 40 kilometers east of Kirkfield.