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\"Propri\u00e9t\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the challenges of Walk the Region<\/a>, the 3-day journey across Montreal’s Metropolitan Region, has been finding places to spend the night that would not require too stray too far from our route.<\/p>\n

Parc Mont-Laval was once among the top ten RV campsites in North America until a private developer bought it in 2009, shut down the campsite, and got it rezoned for residential development. But while the park has been shut down<\/a>, the new development is not yet in the works, and we thought it would be a perfect place to surreptitiously pitch our tents as we traversed Laval by foot.<\/p>\n

But we quickly scratched that idea during an advance scouting mission last weekend. Within literally 20 seconds of parking in front of the site on a Sunday afternoon, we were approached (practically run over) by a guy in an excavator who immediately began yelling at us, asking what we were doing, and telling us to get off the site immediately.\u00a0 He then sded off into the overgrown site and began scooping up boulders.<\/p>\n

We fled across the street and parked in front of a suburban home to collect our wits. A little further down the road, I spotted a sign, that emphasized that trespassers on this “extremely dangerous private property” would have no legal recourse, under any circumstances, or any consideration, never ever<\/em>… even if, say, one’s knees were to be run over by an excavator…<\/p>\n

Perhaps some of the excessive security is due to the controversy surrounding the zoning change last year. Some RVs were evicted after occupying the site for 20 years. The city’s tourism bureau also defended the value of the site<\/a> as a Laval tourist attraction. However, it seems that most locals supported the project<\/a>. However, a neighbour stopped to chat about how the developer was now talking about building 16-story condo buildings on the site, which he seemed to find unsettling.<\/p>\n

But given reception we got during the scouting mission, it looks like we need a plan B…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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