{"id":15750,"date":"2026-05-05T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=15750"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:11:32","slug":"spring-hunting-in-simcoe-county-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/?p=15750","title":{"rendered":"Spring Hunting in Simcoe County Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have been advised by the local Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters about the spring hunting season in Simcoe County Forest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Wild Turkey<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Open Season &#8211;\u00a0<strong>April 25, 2026 to May 31, 2026 inclusive.<\/strong><br><strong>Black Bear &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0Open Season\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<strong>May 01, 2026 to June 15, 2026 Inclusive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ganaraska Hiking Trail goes through 23 different Simcoe County Forest tracts, and hunting is allowed in 18 of the 23. The tracts where hunting is not allowed are Charlebois, Martin&#8217;s Valley, Miller, Museum and Thompson. In all other tracts please be sure to wear bright colour clothing \/ hats \/ vests \/ etc. if hiking during the time periods mentioned above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our thanks to the OFAH for this information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been advised by the local Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters about the spring hunting season in Simcoe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-association-news","category-ghta","post-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15751,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15750\/revisions\/15751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ganaraska-hiking-trail.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}