Today’s post comes from Sheila Wiebe, a marketing and development specialist at Bronte Creek Provincial Park. I promise to be greener. Don’t get me wrong, I’m already pretty green. However, after leading an Earth Day park clean up, I decided I need to take it one step further and double up my efforts to further … Continue reading How to leave the park greener than you found it
Conveniently located off Highway 400 in beautiful Muskoka, Six Mile Lake Provincial Park is an excellent family camping park with tons to do. That said, the park can get extremely busy for both day use and camping. We want to make sure our visitors have all the information they need to have a fun visit, … Continue reading How to plan your visit to Six Mile Lake
New to RVing in parks? You’re not alone! With over 19,000 car camping sites at Ontario Parks, there’s new adventurers getting into the RV game every year. With help from our friends at Wayfarer Insurance Group, we’ve compiled a few unwritten RV rules to know before your first road trip:
Provincial parks are not islands. Well, some of them are. What we mean is: there is no invisible wall around parks limiting their relationships with the outside world. Even if you never visit a park, you benefit from the pollinator diversity they protect, the CO2 they sequester in wood, roots, and peat, and the clean … Continue reading 6 ways to be the best park neighbour
Wakami Lake Provincial Park sits very near the “height of land.” That is, the place where water either flows to the Great Lakes and eventually out to the Atlantic Ocean, or north to Hudson Bay and the arctic watershed. It’s also a place where the southern forests of Sugar Maple and Yellow Birch give way … Continue reading The height of land: Wakami Lake Provincial Park
Sandbanks Provincial Park is one of the busiest parks in the province, welcoming over 800,000 visitors in 2020! Many summer days — especially weekends — Sandbanks hits capacity and can’t welcome any more visitors. This year, you need to book your day use permit in advance to guarantee entry. We really hate to turn away visitors, especially knowing … Continue reading How to plan a trip to Sandbanks
In today’s post, our Algonquin Zone Marketing Specialist Andrea Coulter shares how a summer of cleaning washrooms turned her into a public washroom etiquette crusader. After more than 15 years with Ontario Parks, I still remember my first position most vividly (you never forget cleaning poop off the beach…). I was eighteen years old, and … Continue reading What it’s like to be a washroom cleaner at Ontario Parks
Woodland Caribou Provincial Park is arguably one of Ontario Parks’ best destinations for backcountry wilderness camping and canoeing. This vast park (544,160 hectares) features a Boreal ecosystem influenced by a prairie climate and displays a diverse community of flora and fauna, including being a home to threatened Woodland Caribou.
Today’s blog was written by Jessica Stillman, school outreach coordinator at Bronte Creek Provincial Park. Our beautiful beaches are one of the many reasons people choose to visit parks. But you didn’t think they got that pretty on their own, did you? Here’s a glimpse into some of the behind-the-scenes work you probably didn’t know … Continue reading From tumblers to leaf blowers: we bet you didn’t know how much work it takes to make our beaches beautiful
Looking for an easy escape into nature? Darlington Provincial Park is the perfect spot. It’s great for winter day-use with hiking and wildlife viewing opportunities galore, only 45 minutes east of Toronto. Here are five reasons you need to check Darlington out this winter:
