[citation needed] On October 27, 2009, the first ever documented adult fatality by coyotes occurred on this hiking trail, fatally injuring Canada's young country folk singer Taylor Mitchell while hiking the trail alone.

Taylor was taken to Sacred Heart Community Health Centre in Chéticamp and then airlifted by a helicopter ambulance to Halifax's Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, where she died after midnight from extreme blood loss and her injuries.

An earlier non-fatal attack occurred on July 14, 2003, when an eighteen-year-old American girl was bitten on the arm while hiking with her parents.

[3] Park's Canada, NSERC, and several other academic collaborators funded a five-year research project to better understand contributing factors to this extreme coyote behaviour.

[4] Warning signs were posted at the entrance of all hiking trails to educate visitors how to respond when in coyote habitat.