Algonquin Provincial Park Hotels

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Algonquin's great campgrounds

The campgrounds along the highway 60 corridor are always busy in the Summer so reserve in advance.

Unique Quality: Spacious, beautiful and well maintained.

• Opinion of Price: about average
• Written May 29, 2005

Algonquin tenting

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• Canadian_Traveler
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• epicult
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Sweden's Best Campground

I liked the example (the title that VT uses as Title Example when building tips)... well it should actually read "Sweden's Best Campground they wish they had" or so Maria (pictured) who is from Sweden might argue. When you get onto a new lake that has multiple camp areas, be sure to first check all of them out, if you still have any paddling energy. I always like to do this as they vary considerably. Things to consider:

» Is there a "good" place to place your tent?
» Is there a decent tree to hang your food from?
» Are there any old (dead) trees you can use as firewood?
» Is there a place you can make into a decent cooking area?
» Is there a nice place to relax and lay under the stars before you nod off?

These may or may not be important to you. They are worth considering though.

• Opinion of Price: least expensive
• Related to: Camping, Budget Travel, Adventure Travel
• Written October 16, 2004

Maria cooking up a storm in our stylin camp area

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Pog Lake Campground: Car Camping

This campground has lots of mature, tall pine trees, with lots of bushes and vegetations in between the campsites. If you book early, you maybe able to reserve sites right by the lake or river.

Amenities include: comfort stations with showers, flush toilets, electricity, laundry, canoe rentals and 2 small beaches.

Note that no motor boats are permitted in Pog Lake, which means peace and quiet, and you can truly enjoy the birds singing. In our case is raindrops at night as it was raining heavily on the last night.

There is also an access point to the Old Railway Bike Trail (10km), about the half-way point between Mew Lake and Rock Lake.

You can reserve your site at the website below.

• Opinion of Price: least expensive
• Address: at km 36.9
• Website: http://www.ontarioparks.com
• Related to: Camping, National/State Park, Budget Travel
• Written May 31, 2004

Canoe on a beach by Pog Lake

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• richiecdisc
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Head Lake Campground: elaborate camps....

Unique Quality: Some of the campgrounds have very elaborate kitchen set ups that were built by fellow campers. This one at Head Lake was great as after camping for five nights, it was nice to be able to cook while standing up rather than hunching over a stove!

• Opinion of Price: N/A
• Related to: Camping
• Written November 9, 2003

nice to stand, where's that chipmunk?

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Camp Teamwork: camp on your own island....

Camping out on the lakes of Algonquin Provincial Park is a magical experience and if you go out for enough days, you are bound to see all kinds of weather as we did. But you learn to take the good with the bad and in many ways, it is the bad that makes your appreciate the good all that much more.

Unique Quality: The best camping spots are on their own little islands. There are fewer mosquitoes (though in late September when we went, there are not many anyway!) and generally less chance of a bear encounter too. It is also nice as you have all the privacy in the world and can chuck off all your clothes for a swim if you like. ;>

• Opinion of Price: N/A
• Phone: 1-888-ONT-PARK
• Website: http://www.ontarioparks.com/
• Related to: Camping
• Written November 9, 2003

drying out our gear on a perfect morning

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• sim1
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Facilities

Almost all the campgrounds close to highway 60 all have facilities like showers, toilets and washrooms. On my last trip I stayed at the Pog Lake campground and they had a totally new facility building here, which was great. But I think I should add a word of warning though. When you go during the high season the campgrounds are very busy, and that also means that the facilities are overcrowded. It is not uncommon to have to stand in line and wait for a long long time before you can have a shower. A trick I used at many Ontario parks is not to take the main facility building on the campground, but look if there are any on the outskirts of the campground. Maybe it is a bit further away to get there, but they are not that busy most of the time. Of course it is much easier to avoid the crowds (and in all ways much more enjoyable) to travel off season to Algonquin Park.

• Opinion of Price: N/A
• Related to: Camping, National/State Park
• Written June 30, 2003

Showers at Pog Lake Campground

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• epicult
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Interior camping: If it's going to rain...

Be sure to bring with you a fold-up, military style shovel. These are about $25.00 canadian at any outfitting store and are good for more than a few things.

1. For digging a trench around your entire tent so that if/when it rains, the water flows into the trench (and out a drainage that you have also dug) and not under/into your tent.

2. In order to keep bears away from your camp site and food (See my Warnings and Dangers Tip), use the shovel as the needed weight to throw your rope over a high branch. Tie the shovel to one end of the rope and let it rip!

3. If you've brought your canine buddy and he/she craps within camp site, don't waste a plastic bag you'll have to carry with you for the next 5 days (in the sweltering - stinky - heat), use the shovel to flick it into the bush. If you're really eco-over-sensitive, throw it in the privy provided.

• Opinion of Price: least expensive
• Related to: National/State Park, Camping, Hiking and Walking
• Written May 11, 2003

Handy tool to have!

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