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Tag: beaches

  • How to plan a trip to Sandbanks

    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…

  • Just roll with it: how one park adapts to an unpredictable shoreline

    Today’s post comes from Amy Hall, a Resource Management Project Technician at Pinery Provincial Park. Many of our visitors have been coming to Pinery for decades, witnessing the park change in many ways over time. If you’ve been here in the last few years, you may have noticed that our beach is constantly changing month…

  • A tale of star cross'd plovers

    In today’s post, Marina Opitz, Discovery leader at Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, regales us with shorebird drama of Shakespearean proportions. Thanks to Neal Mutiger for photographing our leading avian actors. First, let us set the scene for our dramatic tale. Picture an empty beach, orange sunrise gleaming across the waves, when two solitary plovers lock eyes from…

  • The Piping Plover power couple of Darlington

    Today’s blog comes from Piping Plover Biologist Monica Fromberger from Ontario Parks’ southeast zone.  Every year, Darlington Provincial Park runs a Piping Plover conservation program to help these special endangered shorebirds. This year, the park’s plover lovers have done it again! Lovebirds Blue and Miss Howard have successfully hatched, fledged, and raised all four of their chicks…

  • Five outdoor activities to improve your health

    Who needs a gym membership when you have the outdoors? Outdoor exercise has a stronger effect on blood pressure and mood than indoor exercise. Stress is relieved within minutes of exposure to nature as measured by muscle tension, blood pressure, and brain activity. To put it simply, time spent outside is good for you! Let’s…

  • Fushimi Lake backcountry

    Set in the lush boreal forest with wide-open skies, there’s a definite “northern feel” to Fushimi Lake Provincial Park. During the day, Fushimi Lake’s horizons look like prairie skies because they seem so wide. At night, the stars are so bright and so numerous that you feel like you’re in a snow globe.

  • Beach accessibility at Ontario Parks

    Beaches can be an accessibility challenge for park visitors using walkers or wheelchairs. Because of the soft sand, wheels and legs of walkers can sink in, making them tough to maneuver. As a part of our commitment to making parks as accessible as possible, more parks are offering beach accessibility measures to help visitors explore…

  • Dynamic dunes at Pinery

    Today’s post comes from Alistair MacKenzie, our Supervisor of Natural Heritage Education and Resource Management at Pinery Provincial Park. In a province dominated by the rock of the Canadian Shield, sand is rare. If we combined all of Ontario’s coastal sand dunes together, they would only make up less than 0.5% of our province’s land. We can…

  • Pancake Bay voted Lake Superior’s “Best Beach View”

    What’s Pancake Bay’s secret? Is it the white, sugary sand? The Caribbean blue-and-turquoise waters? The expansive views across Lake Superior from the beach, or high above from the Edmund Fitzgerald Lookout. Actually, it seems to be all of the above and more. For the sixth year in a row, Pancake Bay Provincial Park has been…

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