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Echoing Lake

Stull Lake

North Washagami Lake Withers Lake Swan Lake

Little Sachigo Lake

Pierce Lake

Igelstrom Lake

Sachigo Lake

Severn Lake

Opinnagau Lake Nowashe Lake

Bearskin Lake

Bearbone Lake

OPASQUIA

Big Trout Lake

Asipoquobah Garrett Lake Lake

Shibogama Lake

Misquamaebin Lake

Angekum Lake

Muskrat Dam Lake

Opasquia Lake

Spruce Lake Sutton Lake

SEVERN RIVER

Blackbear Lake

Two River Lake

East Lake Sabourin Lake

Moshikopaw Lake

Ponask Lake

Seeber Lake

POLAR BEAR

Agusk Lake

Ellard Lake

Munekun Lake

Croal Lake

Kasabonika Lake Makoop Lake

Finger Lake

Favourable Lake

WINISK RIVER 59

Sakwaso Lake

Sandy Lake

Petownikip Lake

Bear Head Lake

Magiss Lake

Weagamow Lake

Opakopa Lake

Nikip Lake

North Caribou Lake

Deer Lake Windigo Lake

McCoy Lake

MANITOBA

Whitestone Lake

McCusker Lake

Mamakwash Lake

Kapikik Lake

Nungesser Lake

Larus Lake

Trout Lake

Balmertown

Red Lake 81

Jeanett Lake

Little Trout Lake

Bruce Lake Pakwash Lake

Sydney Lake

Silver Lake

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RUSHING RIVER

Eagle River

Gullwing Lake

AARON

Dryden Eagle Lake

OJIBWAY

WABAKIMI

KESAGAMI Kesagami Lake

Caribou Lake

Savant Lake

Aroland

Shawanabis Lake

Aldridge Lake

Waweig Lake Wabinosh Lake

Barrel Lake

Lake Nipigon

Mattawa Lake

Raleigh Lake

Stormy Lake

Jellicoe

SANDBAR LAKE Ignace

Beardmore

Agimak Lake

White Otter Lake

Rainy River

Boffin Lake

Eltrut Lake

Fort Frances

Marmion Lake

Raith

Quetico Lake

Lac des Mille Lacs

Eva Lake

Nym Lake

Rainy Lake

Pickerel Lake

Sand Point Lake

Lac la Croix

585

Sturgeon Lake

QUETICO

Poohbah Lake

Crooked Lake Sarah Lake

100

589

Lake

Northern Light Lake Gunflint Lake

588 Arrow Lake

Nolalu

Loch Lomond

Whitefish Lake

593

595

Red Rock Nipigon Bay

NAGAGAMISIS

Silver Islet

Pie Island

Pigeon River 69 Isle Royale (MI)

Kagiano Lake

Steel Lake

Vein Lake

Killala Lake

RENE BRUNELLE

51 Manitouwadge

RAINBOW FALLS

Kapuskasing Moonbeam Hornepayne

Little Abitibi Lake

Smooth Rock Falls

652

Cochrane 18

Obakamiga Lake

Lake Abitibi

Brunswick Lake

655

Iroquois Falls

Kabinakagami Lake

NEYS Pic I.

Marathon 53

White Lake

WHITE LAKE

SLATE ISLANDS

Kapuskasing Lake

Dubreuilville Dog Lake

519

Michipicoten Bay

Missanabie

Foleyet

N US ADA A

IVANHOE LAKE

Nemegosenda Lake

POTHOLES

Montreal I.

Montreal River Harbour

Batchawana I.

Goulais River

Ile Parisienne Goulais Bay

Sault Ste Marie

MICHIGAN

40 556

Searchmont

638

Bruce Mines

WISCONSIN

St. Joseph’s Island

Thessalon

Iron Bridge

Elliot 30 Lake

Blind River Algoma Mills

Lake Timiskaming

Temagami 6

Onaping Lake

553

CHUTES

SAMUEL de CHAMPLAIN North Bay 2

Sudbury

St. Charles Sturgeon Falls

Lake Nipissing

Espanola

Marten River

Wanapitei Lake

FAIRBANK

Lake Panache

Nipissing

KILLARNEY 637

North Channel

FINLAYSON POINT

Lake Temagami

Spanish

5 Haileybury

Latchford

OBABIKA RIVER SOLACE 14 11

546

SPANISH RIVER 25

MISSISSAGI

Heyden

560

Ranger Lake

New Liskeard

LADY EVELYN-SMOOTHWATER

HALFWAY LAKE

Rocky Island Lake

Thornloe

Ramsey Lake

White Owl Lake

Gowganda

WAKAMI LAKE

Englehart

MAKOBE-GRAYS RIVER

BISCOTASI LAKE

BATCHAWANA

Larder Lake

KAP-KIG-IWAN

Gogama

Whitefish Bay

667

PANCAKE BAY

566

Mattagami

Agawa Bay

Kirkland Lake

Horwood Lake

Chapleau

LAKE SUPERIOR Leach I.

Kenogamissi Lake

THE SHOALS

ESKER LAKES

47 Wawa

LAKES

MISSINAIBI

651

MICHIPICOTEN ISLAND

TimminsPorcupineKETTLE Night Hawk 20 Lake

631

White River

PUKASKWA OBATANGA 49 NATIONAL PARK

Bo u Na nda tio ry o na f l M Pro ari po ne se Co d L ns ak erv e S ati up on er Are ior a

Val Gagné Matheson

634

Owl Lake

Lake Superior

125

Val Côté

583

Nagagami Lake

Patterson I.

631

LITTLE ABITIBI

Rossport 58 Schreiber 57 St. Ignace I. Simpson I. Wilson I. Terrace Bay

587

Kilometers

McKay Lake Long Lake

Nipigon

Black Bay

Pass Lake

MINNESOTA 12.5

Dickison Lake

Helen Lake

KAKABEKA Thunder Bay 66 FALLS 70 SLEEPING GIANT Thunder Bay Weikwabinonaw

Saganagons Lake

Basswood Lake

Lappe 102

Kawnipi Lake

Agnes Lake

OUIMET CANYON

Dog Lake

Shebandowan Lakes

McKenzie Lake

Hurkett 65 Dorion

527

Shebandowan

Beaverhouse Lake Wolseley Lake

Frazer Lake

Atikokan

Mine Centre

Pagwachuan Lake

Caramat

Kenogamisis Lake

Barbara Lake

Lac des Iles

Upsala

Clearwater West Lake

625

Hearst

Wintering Lake Black Sturgeon Lake

Kaiashkons Lake

MACLEOD

FUSHIMI LAKE

Calstock

Longlac

Geraldton

QUEBEC

Lawagamau Lake

Fraserdale

Chipman Lake

584

Otukamamoan Lake

Nakina

Onaman Lake

Obonga Lake

Big Sandy Lake

Jog Lake

O'Sullivan Lake

Kakagi Lake

Pledger Lake Trilsbeck Lake

Smoothrock Lake

Granite Lake

Seseganaga Lake

Sandbank Lake

Pitukupi Lake

Wabigoon

Wabigoon Lake

Rowan Lake

CALIPER LAKE

Moose River

Quantz Lake

Mojikit Lake

Armstrong

Minnitaki Lake

Upper Manitou Lake

Savant Lake

Lake of Bays

Dinorwic Lake

SIOUX NARROWS

Lake of the Woods

Big Vermilion Lake

Rugby Lake

Vermilion Bay

Moose Factory

Jaab Lake

Ogoki Lake

Ogoki Reservoir

Fairchild Lake Marchington Lake

Wabakimi Lake

Hill Lake

Lac Seul

Whiteclay Lake

Whitewater Lake

De Lesseps Lake Wapesi Lake

BLUE LAKE

Grayson Lake

TIDEWATER

Wabimeig Lake

Miniss Lake

Moosonee19

Albany River

Lake St. Joseph

Wabaskang Lake

Ena Lake

ONTARIO

Eabamet Lake

Kagianagami Lake

Grassy Narrows

Deacon Lake

Bamaji Lake

Ear Falls

Separation Lake

Big Sand Lake

Shoal Lake

ALBANY RIVER

Bluffy Lake

Oak Lake

Kenora

Petawanga Lake Albany River

Pickle Lake

Gullrock Lake

PAKWASH

Minaki 87

Pickle Lake

Zionz Lake

Birch Lake

Red Lake

Donald Lake

Umfreville Lake

Ozhiski Lake

Cat Lake

Kirkness Lake

Little Vermilion Lake

Streatfeild Lake

Attawapiskat Lake

Totogan Lake

Williams Lake

Upper Goose Lake Roderick Lake

Fort Albany

Kabania Lake

Menako Lakes

Cairns Lake

Missisa Lake

Horseshoe Lake

Pikangikum Lake

WOODLAND CARIBOU

Kashechewan

Barton Lake

Musclow Lake Sabourin Lake

Wigwascence Lake

PIPESTONE RIVER

MacDowell Lake

Sharpstone Lake

James Bay

Nango Lake

Upper Windigo Lake

McInnes Lake

Wunnummin Lake

Opapimiskan Lake

North Spirit Lake

Stout Lake

Attawapiskat

Attawapiskat River

Winisk Lake

FRENCH RIVER

540

33 Manitoulin Island

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-93° W

-92° W

-91° W

-90° W

-89° W

-88° W

-87° W

-86° W

-85° W

-84° W

-83° W

ALGONQ

Burk’s Falls

Georgian Bay

-82° W

-81° W

-80° W

GRAN

Trout Creek

Lake Huron

Lake Michigan

-95° W

Harris Lake

Deux-Riv

Kiosk

South River Sundridge

Lake Manitou

Mattawa

-79° W

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Outdoor Adventures in Northern Ontario

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A great campsite can be defined in many ways, depending on who you ask. While some people want to plug into full hookups and enjoy the comforts of home, while others prefer to hike or paddle into a secluded area and fend for themselves. Northern Ontario offers a plethora of camping experiences to suit all needs. Municipally-operated campgrounds, such as those in Dryden, Thunder Bay and Marathon, offer a natural setting on the outskirts of town. Numerous provincial parks offer a variety of services including comfort stations with showers and laundry facilities, interpretive programs, canoe rentals and sites ranging from full hook-ups to backcountry. The campground at Rushing River Provincial Park is nestled along the cascading rapids of the river, and campgrounds at both Neys and Pancake Bay Provincial Park offer sites adjacent to spectacular sandy beaches. Killarney Provincial Park is considered one of the crown-jewels of Ontario Parks and its campground at George Lake Access Point makes an excellent base for exploring the park’s interior.

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Adventure in unspoiled wilderness

cedar, spruce and aspen along Lake Superior, the maples of the Algoma highlands and the towering pine trees in Temagami.

Northern Ontario is home to some of Canada’s

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Activity

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Traveling through Northern Ontario takes days, with hundreds of kilometres of undeveloped wilderness between its communities. This causes one to take notice of the

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Northern Ontario has the largest population of woodland caribou, timber wolf, moose, white-tailed deer, and black bear. Its wetlands

provide habitat to migratory birds and forests to hundreds of species of birds ranging from the great gray owl to the tiny winter wren. In contrast to the trees that tower over the forest landscape are delicate and rare orchids and arctic plants that grow on exposed cliffs and in the bottoms of canyons.

First Nations have lived here for centuries—their lifestyle adapted to the ebb and ﬂow of the ecosystem. They moved

their communities as the seasons changed to ensure the land would provide the means for survival. They lived as one with nature, never destroying what their livelihood depended upon.

Whether you are a ﬁrst time explorer or a seasoned backcountry canoeist, Northern Ontario offers all types of outdoor adventures. Outdoor Adventures are best determined by the ecosystem—sea kayaking on Lake of the Woods, Lake Superior and Lake Huron, paddling in the boreal forest, mountain biking and hiking on the rugged Canadian Shield.

Activity

Michipicoten Bay, Lake Superior

frontiers, offering unlimited opportunities for adventures by land and water. This is an area described in terms of geology and forest type with the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest to the south and the boreal forest to the north, extending to the Hudson Bay Lowlands and the Arctic ocean. It is a landscape defined by its hydrology as its southern waters drain to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway and the northern waters to the Arctic ocean.

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When snow covers the ground for almost half of the year, it only makes sense to strap on a snowboard, a pair of skis or snowshoes and enjoy it. Northern Ontario offers networks of groomed cross country ski trails, a variety of packed snowshoe trails and endless backcountry to explore. For downhill skiing and snowboarding, Thunder Bay, Searchmont, Elliot Lake and Timmins are home to the largest downhill ski resorts in the region, and there is also an excellent backcountry ski area in Goulais River. Northern Ontario also boasts world class cross-country skiing in the form of classic and skate trails. With strong Scandinavian heritage communities such as Kenora, Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie have well-established ski clubs and extensive trail systems that are impeccably groomed and uncrowded. The Temagami area, Algoma Highlands near Sault Ste. Marie, Sleeping Giant Provincial Park near Thunder Bay, and Quetico Provincial Park near Atikokan offer premium wilderness cross country skiing experiences.

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Northern Ontario is a land of sparkling water, ancient bedrock and vast tracks of boreal forest. It is one of the world’s last great wilderness

Ski & Snowshoe

Camp

The wind and waves on the Lake of the Woods, Lake Superior, the North Channel of Lake Huron and Lake Nipissing range from calm and serene to tumultuous and treacherous. Somewhere in between are sublime conditions for boardsports and sailing that can only be matched by the world’s oceans. Stand up paddleboarders, kiteboarders and windsurfers will find no shortage of sandy beaches, like the one at Wabigoon Lake in Dryden, Mission Island in Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Michipicoten River in Wawa and Sunset Beach on Lake Nipissing. For sailing, the Lake of the Woods, Lake Superior and the North Channel are some of the prime wilderness sailing areas in the world. The shorelines of these lakes are largely undeveloped which means wildlife sightings are more common than seeing other vessels. But, with wilderness comes isolation, and it is important for sailors to be well-prepared; there is often a large distance between marinas.

Experience outdoor adventures in Northern Ontario using the activity chart below. Locations are marked on the map.

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The extensive network of lakes and rivers makes for unlimited paddling experiences in Northern Ontario. The canoe is synonymous with the north— a form of transportation developed and perfected by First Nations and later adopted by Europeans. The voyageurs and coureur de bois established relationships with First Nations communities and paddled deep into their territories to establish trading posts at locations such as Moose Factory, Missinaibi, Pic River, and Fort Hope. Paddle the wild coastlines of Lake Huron’s North Channel, Pukaskwa National Park, the proposed Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area and the Lake of the Woods. For one-way trips or to explore remote islands, outfitters can arrange shuttle services or water taxis. Renowned canoeing destinations like Woodland Caribou, Quetico and Wabakimi Provincial Parks offer backcountry opportunities that are so remote they can only be reached by canoe or floatplane. Larger rivers, such as the Kopka in Greenstone, the Albany in Algoma Region and the Mattawa in Northeastern Ontario offer varying classes of whitewater.

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Bike

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Hike

In the forests that line Northern Ontario’s highways and roads lurk some of the best mountain biking trails in the province. Many of the trails are remnants of former railways, logging or mining operations— a testament to the history of these resource-based communities. Rocky elevations and stunning scenery await adventures and convenient places to stay complement the experience. Some of the best mountain bike trails can be found near Minaki, Thunder Bay, Marathon, Wawa, Searchmont, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. Exposed bedrock and rootbound soil make for challenging singletrack whereas old roads that are wider, hard-packed and smooth are better suited to beginner or intermediate riders. Because of the region’s topography, mountain bikers should be prepared to climb some challenging hills, but the reward of a panoramic view is only a few pedal rotations away.

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The rugged and varied landscape of Northern Ontario was created by fire and shaped by ice. The granite of the Canadian Shield was formed 2.7 billion years ago and is characterized by volcanic rock formations and thin soil. While the rock is ancient, the watersheds are young in comparison, having been formed by melting glaciers only 10,000 years ago. With challenging topography and thick forest cover, the area is ideal for hiking. Within protected areas are iconic trails, such as the Height of Land Trail in Wakami Lake Provincial Park, the Coastal Trail in Pukskwa National Park and La Cloche Silhouette Trail in Killarney Provincial Park. Other trail systems that are well-maintained and marked include the Vernon Nature Trails near Kenora, Casque Isles Trail on the north shore of Lake Superior, and Voyageur Hiking Trail in Algoma Region. All of these trails will take you to spectacular views—some that inspired the iconic paintings of the Group of Seven.

Hiking Killarney Provincial Park