Tag: Lake Superior
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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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BioBlitz at Sleeping Giant
Team members from our Northwest Zone, including Barb Rees, Evan McCaul, Lesley Ng, Renée Lalonde, Laura Myers and Kyra Santin, combined to share the results of Sleeping Giant’s summer BioBlitz! Sleeping Giant Provincial Park isn’t just home to beautiful cliffs and hiking trails. The park also plays host to a diverse group of plants and animals.…
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A day on the water…
Today’s post comes from Bob Elliott, Superintendent of Lake Superior Provincial Park. A few staff from Lake Superior Provincial Park went for a paddle across Mijinemungshing Lake (Mijin for short) and through the Mirimoki Wetlands to Mirimoki Lake.
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5 bucket list fishing destinations in northwestern Ontario
If you live to fish and you’ve never cast your line into a lake in northern Ontario, these five spots in the backcountry you’ll want to add to your bucket list! They come (in no particular order!) courtesy of Bob Elliott, superintendent of Lake Superior Provincial Park. A lifelong, avid angler himself, Bob says these five parks…
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Take a walk on the wild side on Lake Superior's Coastal Trail
Today’s post comes from Carol Dersh, our natural heritage education leader at Lake Superior Provincial Park. Slippery, steep and rugged sections ahead. . . …what a fitting description of Lake Superior Provincial Park’s 65 km Coastal Trail. If you like wild places, rugged hikes, varied terrain, dark night skies, an endless horizon, fewer biting insects…
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Soundscapes from across Ontario
One of my favourite signs is from a lookout over the Grand Canyon. It simply says, ONE MINUTE. DON’T READ. DON’T TALK. NO PHOTOS. JUST LOOK…..AND SEE. It is something that I hope you will do often when you visit our parks or other natural areas in Ontario. But how about this variation? TWO MINUTES.…