Category: Beaches
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How to plan your day trip to Port Burwell
Port Burwell Provincial Park is a favourite spot for families, dog-lovers, and beach-goers. With 2.5 km of sandy beach, a dog friendly beach and exercise area, and plenty of recreation facilities, this park has become a popular weekend destination. Unfortunately, Port Burwell’s increasing popularity has meant that our park can get extremely busy, and often…
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How to plan your visit to Wasaga Beach Provincial Park
Wasaga Beach Provincial Park is the busiest provincial park in the province, receiving over 2 million visitors every year! Home to the world’s longest freshwater beach, Wasaga boasts 14 km of pristine sand, which makes it a hot spot for summer activity. This also means that our park can get extremely busy, and often reaches capacity…
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Just for the gull of it!
In today’s post, Awenda’s Chief Park Naturalist Tim Tully defends what some may think is the undefendable: the gull. If there was ever an animal that gets a raw deal, it’s the gull. It’s time to set the record straight and come to the defense of this unfairly maligned avian “underbird.” For starters, we can’t…
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How to plan your trip to Sibbald Point
Located on Lake Simcoe, Sibbald Point Provincial Park is a great spot for day-use. The park has a sandy beach and shallow water perfect for kids. But during the hot summer months, the park can get extremely busy. Many weekends, Sibbald Point hits capacity and can’t welcome any more visitors. This year, you need to book…
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Our free PARKsmart PFD Lending Program
While swimming, boating and other water activities are a centrepiece of many Ontario Parks adventures, there are also risks associated with these activities. We want our visitors to stay safe when they hit the waves. And that starts with a PFD (personal flotation device)!
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Piping Plovers
Today’s post comes from Assistant Ecologist and Piping Plover specialist Ian Fife. If you’ve visited some of our popular Great Lakes beaches, you may have noticed restricted areas for a tiny bird no larger than a sparrow. What’s so important about these birds, and why do we fence off parts of our beaches to protect…
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Why driftwood matters
Today’s post comes from Laura Myers, Past Senior Park Interpreter of Neys Provincial Park. Driftwood – it makes a great bench to watch the sunset, a balancing beam to play on, or that perfect element to your photograph. There’s something about driftwood that gives beaches that rugged beauty factor. Walking on a beach, listening to…