Things to Do at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park
If I had to make a list of our favourite camping spots, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park would definitely be in the top five. The park is located on Sibley Peninsula about an hour away from Thunder Bay....
View ArticleLogos Land Resort & Campground: A Slice of Heaven and History!
My family and I discovered this little slice of Heaven and history known as Logos Land purely by accident. My wife, two daughters and I have always enjoyed camping trips within the glorious confines of...
View ArticleTrip log: Rain Lake Ranger Cabin, Algonquin
Backwoods camping with most of the comforts of home I’m a big fan of camping in backwoods Ontario. For example, my wife and I spent our first anniversary on a 100+ km canoe trip into the center of...
View ArticleAlgonquin Diaries: Paddling the Petawawa River
Story by Jim Baird Photos by Jim Baird and Tori Farquharson Gear loaded in the water taxi, Lake Opeongo The windy and wet weather finally breaks when my girlfriend Tori and I wake at our Blueberry...
View ArticleoTENTiks on Mountain Tops: Thousand Islands National Park
The small community of Gananoque lies on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, east of Kingston. A gateway to the Thousand Islands that span the Canada-US border on the St. Lawrence, the town’s marina...
View ArticlePeterborough’s Canoe Heritage
By Jo Boxwell Inside an unremarkable, flat-roofed building in Peterborough, Ontario sits the world’s largest collection of canoes, kayaks and paddled watercraft. The Canadian Canoe Museum protects...
View ArticleMyths and Microbes at Kakabeka Falls
“I know that place,” I said to my friend, gesturing to the framed photo on her living room wall. It was a mid-summer’s evening, and we had just come inside to prep dinner for a backyard barbecue at her...
View Article10 Day Family Camping Trip to Lake Superior and Pancake Bay Provincial Parks
Our story I have camped and enjoyed the outdoors since I was a child. My brother and I would spend our summers visiting my Grandparents on Rock Lake, northeast of Bruce Mines, Ontario and were very...
View ArticleA Day Trip to Rushing River Provincial Park
A beautiful park, a good pair of hiking shoes, a well stocked cooler and Alice, a standard poodle, game for anything, is what I would call a recipe for success. And that was exactly how a recent...
View ArticleWinter Yurt Camping at Mew Lake, Algonquin
Spring Break Family Getaway to Mew Lake – By Josh Spina. You’re going where? While most of our friends and family flew South for the March break, seeking reprieve from the harsh Canadian Winter, we...
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