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Tag: Canadian Shield

  • 5 reasons to visit Halfway Lake Provincial Park

    Halfway Lake Provincial Park features over 4,000 ha of rugged, forested Canadian Shield, dotted with sparkling blue lakes. Less than an hour north of Sudbury on Highway 144, the park boasts an oasis of swimming, paddling, and hiking with a full service campground. Here are five reasons we think Halfway Lake will delight family campers…

  • Southern Muskoka’s “living edge”

    “The living edge.” It sounds more like a Bond film than a trail name, until you follow it through the woods. The Living Edge Trail in Six Mile Lake Provincial Park is only a kilometre long, but it crosses such a variety of landscapes and habitats that it seems much longer. It also spans time, giving…

  • Mattawa River: sculpted by time

    Today’s post comes from Mat St-Jules, a park interpreter at Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park. The sights of the Mattawa River keep drawing me back. I find incredible beauty in a scraggly cedar clinging to sheer rock or in the gleaming coat of a river otter standing on a sandbar. But, of course, these marvels…

  • Protected: Holes in the shield: the Algonquin Rock Worm

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