Article content The compacted gravel road leads to the popular Cabot Head lighthouse at the end of the road, and the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory, a scientific, monitoring station along an international migratory bird route. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. The road offers kilometres-long views of Georgian Bay as it hugs the shoreline. It has been closed since high water in 2019-20 washed out about 450 metres of its eight-kilometre length. It’s privately owned by individuals and Ontario Parks, which complicates repairing and reopening it as a public road. Not allowing cars on the eight-kilometre trail would mean an eight-kilometre hike or bike for anyone wanting to access the lighthouse, Elizabeth Thorn acknowledged Monday.