It was a regular summer morning in Halifax’s Point Pleasant Park on Wednesday, with joggers, walkers and tourists on the trails, despite a sweeping new provincial ban that restricts all travel into the woods across Nova Scotia.

The ban, introduced due to heightened wildfire risk from dry conditions, has left many park-goers confused about where they’re allowed to go.

Nancy Smith, a pedestrian out for a walk, told Global News, “I think people are confused about the roll-out and maybe wish that there had been a little more detail.”

“It’s still really confusing, are we closed? Are we not closed?” she said.

Unlike Shubie Park in Dartmouth, where pylons had been placed at the entrance, Point Pleasant Park had no visible signage warning visitors about the ban on Wednesday morning.

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