The "not a trail - sanctuary area... research permits required" place.

Has anyone ever been down there and gotten seen by a special constable or researcher? What happened?
Or is it almost legal to go there?

BTW some pictures for the ppl who don't know what I'm talking about:

If you get caught you will get ticketed. Its a swamp, people shouldn't just walk around there like its a park.

I think that only the part that branches off to the right is off limits (sign is at a fork in the trail), especially because there is not a sign on the other entrance to the trail (by Les Prince)...

plus the trail is still listed on their website

http://www.rbg.ca/Document.Doc?id=120

But, I could be wrong.

As long as you stay on the trails you should be okay. The issue is that the area along the trails is a protected ecosystem that the RBG is trying to rehabilitate/preserve which is why it is only open to researchers. If you want to go off-trail I would suggest heading to the escarpment, it's a little steep in spots but there are a lot of cool finds in the woods there.

I think the part that the sign references is the trail on the other side of the wooden fence barrier. I spent a ton of time down along that boardwalk last year (as did many others) and we never had an issue.

The real reason that they dont want people there is because some students have gone missing and have never been found. some people say its the slenderman. true story

Originally Posted by pineaukeo

The real reason that they dont want people there is because some students have gone missing and have never been found. some people say its the slenderman. true story

Someone was actually murdered behind Brandon Hall in the late '60s I believe.

i think it was in the 70's... this is an excerpt from a newspaper for any of you interested in knowing more about the murder..."At about 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15th, 1973, 26-year-old Adele Komorowski, a graduate student at McMaster University in Hamilton, 60 km southwest of Toronto, was grabbed at the front door of her campus residence and dragged 450 feet into a nearby ravine (now cootes paradise). A fellow female student who lived on the third floor of the same complex heard screams and looked out her window to witness a man dragging a woman toward the ravine. Police were called, arrived promptly, and found Komorowski's body mere minutes after her murder. She had been strangled with a piece of rope. . Police with tracking dogs immediately began combing the secluded trails of Coote's Paradise marsh, which borders the university campus"... unresolved murder mystery

Yep, that's correct, I thought it was about five years earlier. First of 3 murders on campus and IMO the creepiest, I always think of that when I go down on the trails.