Canadian Chat → Ontario people have to pay to go to the beach!

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for real?

Yah how to gouge the beach goer even more. That looks like it's in Crystal Beach. We will have to wait for " Gone " he will know.

I love thisSo washrooms were under renovation, porta potties were scarce and hard to.find and they wonder why people are doing their business in the sand .

Just too much

From the story "...the growing problem of people using the sand as a toilet at Bay Beach." Honestly wtf!

I would assume some of that money will provide a porta potty; not a bad deal for parking your car and parking your butt on a johnny, sand is abrasive after all.

What reality are you living in? Parking at Wasaga Beach is $15/day. Sauble Beach is $20/day. You think facilities are free? Not any more. This is a bargain.

People using the beach as a toilet is a huge issue at Sauble.

Lake Huron is a giant toilet...
Water is nice this year though.

All of the Great Lakes receive treated sewage and the same cities take their drinking water from it. Your point?

^Good to know (sound of pencil striking off item from things to do list)
Sort of glad I gave up beaching when I sold my cottage.

My reality is where I live with many lakes and beaches and all are free!!

You Have had to pay to get into Sherkston Beaches for at least 30 years.

I feel like we just had a thread about this... Yea, it seems like if you want to enjoy the beach you have to own beachfront property or pay a few bucks.

You'll find free beaches if you scout around though although they're often rocky and unpleasant on the lake Ontario side of things.

Sherkston hasn't allowed day pass entry for a few years now. The beaches are solely for use by the residents and their guests.

Long Beach further west in Wainfleet has charged for admission for as long as I can remember. Nickle Beach charges $10 for cars to park, and it's so far in the middle of nowhere that driving there is the only way to get there and you're paying to park.

As for Bay Beach, the town and region paid millions of dollars to reconstruct the upper and lower beach. Residents didn't want to be on the hook for a property tax increase to fund all new facilities at a beach that primarily attracts people from out of town, so it was decided to institute user fees instead.

It's actually a pretty spectacular beach. Probably one of, if not the, nicest in the province and the new washrooms/changerooms, scenic overlook and the park they built are all free to use without paying the admission fee. It is also fully accessible. It's still pretty popular with the fee, as they had 6400 people out there on Monday.

Fort Erie has plenty of other beaches that the locals and a few in-the-know out-of-towners use, and they're all still free.

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Nickle Beach is now $15

Expect that to change quickly as municipalities in Ontario seek new ways to fund themselves as the province requires them to seek "efficiencies".

I have full access to Sauble Beach Park, the indigenous side of the beach. I pay for that, however, through my lease fee. But as we say this year, "What beach?"

Toronto has been known to dump straight into the lakes when it can’t handle a little rainfall. Montreal does the same in the st Lawrence and Ottawa into the Ottawa river.

They;re spending a bundle on holding tanks now

There's a selection of free parks in the waterfront with beaches when you come further east - you have to pay at sandbanks as it is a provincial park - but lake Ontario park and grass Creek park in Kingston are both free - Browns Bay Beach in Mallorytown is a provincial park again and has normal day rates applicable. St Lawrence park and Beach in Brockville is free for day use. Iroquois Beach is free for day use. Lots of the lakes as you go north have free Beach areas as well - typically provided by the municipality - for instance in the Bancroft ON area, there's a free beach on L'Amable Lake and another on Steenburg Lake and Chandos Lake --- but silent lake provincial park again has normal provincial park day rates.

Ottawa is currently building the CSST @ $230million to store sewage during rainfalls.

How bout $30 bucks to park at Niagara falls! That was steep but at at least a feces free parking lot!

Best beach I've ever encountered was in the dead of January, with the paid parking meters out of service.

Once you've been the only human being on 10 miles of sandy beach, you'll not want to go play dodge the feces elsewhere.

Long Beach, just outside Tofino on Vancouver Island, part of the Pacific Rim National Park and worth visiting!

My advantage.

Some of us have jobs...
in 9 years I’ll have the same view.

Tents are banned from the beach for safety - they obstruct sight lines of the water making it difficult for people to see their children in the water, people were leaving pegs in the sand which caused tripping/cut hazards, and some people were bringing huge 12 person two room tents that took up a lot of space on a busy beach and using one room to drink (which is also prohibited) in one room and set up the other as a toilet. For the benefit and enjoyment of everyone who uses the beach, the town prohibited them. The town allows beach umbrellas up to a certain size for sun shade, as they don't block sight lines to the water and people can't hide inside them to drink or use the toilet (and no, regardless of what this woman says, people don't sit them on their sides as the beach faces south and the only way to get shade during the day is to set them up straight)

Now, with regard to this specific woman's "story" and her whining and crying on Facebook - Fort Erie is a small town. It's really not hard to get the real story of how it all went down directly from multiple different people who were actually there, and needless to say she's not telling the whole truth. Her husband was told at the gate they couldn't have the tent on the beach, and she was told no less than three times on the beach itself after setting up the tent anyway that she had to take it down. She kept refusing, and only as a last resort after becoming verbally combative with bylaw and later the police was she finally told to take a hike and trespassed from the property.

Rules are rules, they exist for a reason, and neither she nor her children are any more special than anyone else there. Her interviews and commentary on social media, in my opinion, reek of a special kind of entitlement that only someone of a certain age from Niagara-on-the-Lake born with a silver spoon in their mouth would have.

Right. I remember them jacking up the resident pass prices this year, but didn't recall the out-of-town day rate.

FYI what the article didn't mention was that the town didn't expect to get 7000-8000 people out onto the beach during days on the weekend last year while it was clearly under construction and under renovations with heavy equipment all over the place. I think most people in town expected those people to elsewhere when they were greeted with excavators and construction fencing all over the place.

Needless to say, everyone is happy to put that fiasco behind them.