Category: Paddling
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The mighty Missinaibi
If you love the great Canadian outdoors then Missinaibi Provincial Park should definitely be on your bucket list!
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Why kayaks are an awesome way to fish Ontario Parks
In today’s post, Scott Gardner, Associate Editor of Outdoor Canada, shares his love for and experience with kayak fishing. All photos below are copyright to Scott Gardner. On a cloudless summer afternoon, I paddled around a point on Six Mile Lake, eased my boat through a jumble of boulders, and slipped into a long shallow bay.…
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Exploring the Great Trail in northwestern Ontario Parks
Today’s post comes from Michelle Halstead, a travel, tourism and eco-adventure placement student with Ontario Parks Northwest Zone. Canada is proud to be the home of the greatest recreational trail in the world. A 24,000 km trail of land and water that stretches across 10 provinces and three territories. The Great Trail (formally known as…
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The battle of paddlers: eliminating "Portage Rage"
Today’s post comes from Roger LaFontaine, Outdoor Recreation Specialist at Ontario Parks. With the warm weather, our minds wander from day-to-day drudgery like the terrible commute, the clicking of keyboards, the abstract shapes, and disjointed words of a presentation. Suddenly, you’re dreaming about pine trees, a campfire, and great people you don’t get to spend…
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Temagami: an ancient canoe country
Today’s post comes from Discovery Specialist Dave Sproule. It’s a rugged, time-worn landscape. A fractured piece of the Canadian Shield, with fault lines criss-crossing the roots of ancient mountains for hundreds of kilometres. More than 2,500 lakes fill those fault lines, and at over 600,000 hectares, it’s almost as large as Algonquin Provincial Park. Is it any wonder…
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Top 10 reasons to paddle the Northwest Wilderness Quest
Today’s post comes from Barb Rees, Natural Heritage Education/Marketing Specialist with Ontario Parks. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to paddle and camp for a minimum of three consecutive nights in each of Quetico, Wabakimi and Woodland Caribou Provincial Parks by October 15, 2019. Why? Read on. We list the top ten…
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SUP tripping in Killarney
Today’s post comes from keen paddler and photographer, Grant Sutherland. Any excuse to get back to Killarney Provincial Park is a good excuse. So when my wife Heather and I took an interest in stand-up paddleboarding, we thought it was a perfect opportunity to try something new. Backcountry tripping with paddleboards? Sounds like a great adventure!
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Top 3 paddling destinations in Ontario’s Sunset Country
Ever paddled through the hush of the boreal forest at dawn? Watched the sun rise over a network of Canadian Shield lakes? Whether you prefer canoe, kayak or SUP, Sunset Country is a paddler’s paradise.
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365 days in Quetico
Gary Fiedler is a Minnesota-based photographer about to undertake a 365-day journey in Quetico Provincial Park. In this post, Gary shares his passion for Quetico and his underlying motivations for this journey of a lifetime. On June 21, 2018, I will embark on a 365-day solo canoe and winter camping adventure of a lifetime in…