"The parkways should not be viewed as commuter routes." From an NCC interview with Don Butler, the Ottawa Citizen, May 2014.

Greenbelt Properties ---Scenic highways in the National Capital Region during 1984 and 1985 Ontario:

• Ottawa River Parkway
• Airport Parkway
• Eastern Driveway
• Colonel By Drive
• Eastern Parkway
• Queen Elizabeth Drive
• Hog's Back Road
• Rockcliffe Park Driveway
• Queensway
• Island Park Driveway
• Station Boulevard
• Experimental Farm Drive
• Other parkways (From: NCC Annual Report 1984/85---page 32/70.)

Quebec:

• Gatineau Parkway
• Voyageur Parkway
• Philemon Wright
• Northern Entrance
• Hull South
• Secteur Fournier
• Lac des Fees Parkway
• Other parkways (From: NCC Annual Report 1984/85---page 32/70.) Scenic driveways in the National Capital Region are protected by the Greenbelt and National Interest Land Mass designations. And Queen Elizabeth Drive should be a National Historic Site of Canada, see the Heritage Ottawa report from 2024.  

Scenic highways in Gatineau are blocked off most of the time. Petition for the National Capital Commission to restore access to the Gatineau Park Parkways, 2021: "This is a petition for the NCC to restore access to the Champlain Parkway, Gatineau Parkway and Fortune Lake Parkway in Gatineau Park. Starting May 1st the NCC has closed the Champlain, Gatineau and Lake Fortune Parkways for motor vehicle access except from 1pm to an hour after sunset on Wednesday/Saturday and Sundays, which leaves access to the park by motor vehicles less than 15% of the time. This means there is no vehicle access to parking lots at:

• Pink Lake
• Waterfall Trail
• Lake Mulvihill
• Lake Mulvihill Picnic Area
• Penguin Picnic Area
• Etiane Brule Look Out
• Champlain Lookout
• Lake Fortune Lookout
• King Mountain Picnic Area

"There are no more short hikes to Pink Lake, King Mountain, Waterfall Trail, Champlain Lookout Loop or to the Western Cabin. This also limits access to any of these places on a morning ON ALL WEEK DAYS. We see this as:

1.) Discrimination against hikers and walkers and a total bias for exclusive Gatineau Park use by cyclers for the majority of the time.

2.) Discrimination against people with disabilities, seniors, people who have physical disabilities that affect their mobility or the amount of physical activity that they are able to do.

3.) Discrimination against families with children. Most of the parking lots are closed."

I am at the entrance to Kingsmere in the Gatineau Hills. Prime Minister Mackenzie King gave his estate to the people of Canada.