Please note: Wolf Howl will not be offered during the 2021 season. For more than 50 years, we’ve called the wolves every Thursday in August. Since the Algonquin Provincial Park Wolf Howls started in 1963, more than 150,000 visitors have spent summer evenings listening to the wolves’ haunting harmonies.
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.
Welcome to our “5 Questions” series! We chat with park staff around the province to give you an inside look at what it’s like to work at Ontario Parks. Laurie Dulmage is now in her 16th season as the Park Clerk at Rideau River Provincial Park. She answered five questions from Marketing and Communications summer … Continue reading 5 questions with a park clerk
Today’s post comes from Marketing and Communications summer student Mitch Jackson. Smartphone cameras keep getting better and better. No longer do park enthusiasts have to drag clunky DSLR cameras through the wilderness. Taking your smartphone with you will free up room for snacks, sunscreen, a lunch, a water bottle…did we mention more room for snacks? We’ve … Continue reading The best apps for smartphone photography
Wooden canoes and paddles are closely linked to Ontarians’ collective sense of history. For centuries, rivers and lakes were the railways of their time: traversing our waterways by canoe was how Indigenous people and early European settlers explored this vast country. Ontario is known as the “canoe capital” of the world for good reason. Our … Continue reading Wooden canoe- and paddle-making in Ontario
Happy World Turtle Day! Today’s post comes from Shannon McGaffey, our Assistant Park Biologist at Algonquin Provincial Park. Earlier this month, a crew of seven park staff – rangers, maintenance workers, administration staff and biologists – spent the entire day installing turtle fencing along the side of the busy Highway 60 in Algonquin.
Today’s post comes from Grundy Lake Provincial Park, courtesy of Park Clerk Courtney Lafleur and Discovery Program Leader Jessica Schulze. You’re an experienced car-camper. You’ve got a favourite campsite. You’ve memorized your ideal site setup, and can put your campsite together in record time. But now you’re ready to up your camping game and try something different. … Continue reading Backcountry at Grundy Lake Provincial Park
Ever heard of Polar Bear Provincial Park? Few Ontarians will ever visit the 2.3 million hectares of protected land along Ontario’s only salt water coast. The park is home to the magnificent polar bear, as well as caribou, seals and the beluga whale. Between 2011 and 2016, Polar Bear Provincial Park underwent the largest Environmental Remediation Project ever to be … Continue reading Restoring nature’s balance in Polar Bear Provincial Park
With Earth Day fast approaching, now’s the perfect time to talk about how our ecopassages are helping protect Ontario’s wildlife! You may have heard of wilderness corridors built for wildlife to cross over or under the TransCanada Highway. Ecopassages are mini versions of these, like a critter-sized subway tunnel passing under the road.
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 … Continue reading 5 bucket list fishing destinations in northwestern Ontario
