Distance is the OPA's biggest challenge

With more than 1,500 Local Aeries operating under similar rules and sharing common goals, there is much to be learned by visiting other aeries. In Ontario, however, that's not always practical. With enormous distances between aeries (and not many aeries to begin with), Ontario's Local Aeries generally operate pretty much n their own.

To put that into perspective, Ontario has one aerie for roughly every 215,000 square kilometers (the land area of Idaho per aerie) while, at the opposite extreme, Ohio has 191 aeries, one per 554 square kilometers - 38 times as many aeries in one quarter the land area.

The longest trip by car between aeries in Ontario is 691 km Toronto 2311 to Heyden-Goulais River 4061. If all of Ohio's Local Aeries were along that route, they would be about 3.6 kilometers apart, an average 40 minute walk from aerie to aerie. As it is now in Ontario, you would pass only one aerie (Webbwood 426) along that route. Walking eight hours per day, you would take 11.5 days to get to Webbwood from Toronto, and another six days to get to the end of your journey.