A family living in Southwest Port Mouton, N.S., are fed up with a glitch in Google Maps that keeps sending tourists destined for the hiking trail at Kejimkujik National Park Seaside to their doorstep instead.

Candace Bowers lives on the Old Woods Property Road, a narrow dirt road with a dead end. But when people plug in Keji Seaside as their destination into Google Maps, the GPS directs them to Bowers' home.

"They start showing up any time after April, to all of summer to October," she told CBC's Maritime Noon.

The actual road to the trail is the next exit.

Bowers said they get about 10 lost travellers a day during peak season, and the problem started about a year and a half ago.

When tourists plug in Keji Seaside as their destination, the GPS gets it wrong. (Scott Meis/Flickr cc)

"I've met a lot of people: some are nice, some are ignorant, some believe Google Maps over me and tell me that I'm wrong, which is quite interesting," she said.

It's not always easy to get big trailers turned around and sent on their proper route. Bowers said she has damaged her own vehicles trying to tow people out.

"You have random people showing up all the time and they're yelling at you because your dog is coming out, there's nothing you can do. It's our yard, our property," she said.

"We are just unfortunate that we have Google Maps connecting them to us."

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Bowers said the tourists are frustrated and her family is frustrated.

"We've done everything we possibly can so far. We have signs up that say there's no access to Keji Park, we have private drive signs up. We have beware of the dog signs so people aren't hitting our dogs, because we have three dogs back there on the property," she said.

The mix-up can sometimes be entertaining with tourists occasionally driving up, driving off, then returning as if the destination has changed.

"In like five minutes they're back. And it's like, 'Nope, still the wrong place, people,'" Bowers said with a laugh.

She says an email has been sent to Google telling them of the error, but she doesn't expect to hear back.

"Technology these days, everybody believes technology, but technology can be wrong too," she said.