Editing Bruce Trail (section)

==Maintenance==
[[Image:bruce-trail-blaze.jpg|thumb|right|140px|Typical Bruce Trail blaze]]
The Federation of Ontario Naturalists surveyed the route in the early 1960s, and the responsibility for maintaining the trail was assumed by the nascent Bruce Trail Association; as of 2007, it is called the Bruce Trail Conservancy.

Currently headquartered at 55 Head Street in [[Dundas, Ontario|Dundas]], the BTC marks and maintains the main trail as well as many side trails.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brucetrail.org|title=Bruce Trail Conservancy About Us Page|url=http://BruceTrail.org/pages/about-us|access-date=14 June 2015}}</ref> Trail maintenance includes building bridges over streams and gullies, building stairs and switchbacks to climb slopes, building stiles over fences, and rerouting portions of the trail that have become worn through overuse.

The trail is subdivided into nine sections, each with a subsidiary club:

{| class="wikitable"
|- "
!Club Name!!Start!!End
!Length (km)
|-
| ''Niagara''||[[Queenston, Ontario|Queenston]]|| [[Grimsby, Ontario|Grimsby]]
|83
|-
| ''Iroquoia''||[[Grimsby, Ontario|Grimsby]]|| [[Kelso, Ontario|Kelso]]
|122.5
|-
| ''Toronto''||Kelso|| [[Cheltenham, Ontario|Cheltenham]]
|50
|-
| ''Caledon''||Cheltenham|| [[Mono Centre, Ontario|Mono Centre]]
|72.4
|-
| ''Dufferin Hi-Land''||Mono Centre|| [[Lavender, Ontario|Lavender]]
|56.3
|-
| ''Blue Mountains''||Lavender||[[Craigleith, Ontario|Craigleith]]
|70
|-
| ''Beaver Valley''||Craigleith|| [[Grey Highlands|Blantyre]]
|120
|-
| ''Sydenham''||Blantyre|| [[Wiarton, Ontario|Wiarton]]
|170
|-
| ''Peninsula''||Wiarton|| [[Tobermory, Ontario|Tobermory]]
|160
|}

Volunteers inspect, repair, and build footbridges, retaining walls, stiles, and handholds along their section of the route. The BTC and subsidiary clubs offer badges for those hikers who complete the whole trail or any of its sections under prescribed conditions.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chandler |first=Justin |date=November 4, 2023 |title=Meet some of the 1,500 volunteers who go 'all-in' to clean up and fix Ontario hiking trails |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hiking-trails-volunteers-1.7016794 |access-date=August 8, 2024 |website=CBC News}}</ref>

The main trail is marked with the BTC logo, a white lozenge with black text and drawings for the Bruce Trail and an upward pointing arrow, which does not act as a part of a navigational marker. The actual [[Trail blazing|blazes]] for the main trail are white markings, approximately {{convert|3|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} wide by {{convert|8|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} high, with turns indicated by stacking two blazes off centre to indicate the direction to take. The blazes for the {{convert|300|km|abbr=on}} of associated side trails are similar, except they are blue.