Who Will Run the Rail Trail?

The president of Tourism-Lake Country is urging local government to consider forming a not for profit society to oversee the Okanagan Rail Trail.

Alan Gatzke — a farmer and business owner in Oyama who visited a successful rail trail in New Zealand — told the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee the name and logo should also be secured.

GVAC Director Catherine Lord says they have to look at how the trail will be used.

“We have to decide on if we actually want the trail to be used as a tourist attraction, which I think is the general feeling overall, or is it just going to be a raw trail?”