Crave the warm welcome, soft bed, and hearty meals of a bed & breakfast on your travels? Eager to explore Ontario’s breathtaking natural landscapes? Why not do both? Book a stay in a cozy bed & breakfast, and use it as a homebase for daily excursions into parks. We chatted with the Federation of Ontario Bed & Breakfast Accommodation … Continue reading B&Bs make terrific homebases for exploring provincial parks
To help celebrate our 125th anniversary, Ontario Parks has organized a series of stewardship programs. These events are happening throughout the year and across the province to help protect biodiversity in provincial parks. Stewardship programs have included BioBlitz events, invasive species removal, and native species plantings. On Earth Day, park staff and an eager group of … Continue reading Earth Day tree planting at Rondeau Provincial Park
Today is dedicated to telling the story of Painted Turtle #353: “Martyn of the Madawaska” (mostly true, with some creative freedom by the author). He is not particularly unusual for a turtle but, like most, he has an interesting story that begs to be told.
Did you know that the habitable zone of a solar system is the range of distance from sun that is “not too hot, not too cold, but just right” for life? It’s also known as the Goldilocks Zone!
Gearing up to celebrate our 125th anniversary had us digging through archives in search of vintage photos and documents. Over the course of the year, we’ll be sharing our discoveries in our OP125 blog series. This month, we’re looking back at the evolution of our park uniforms.
Today’s post comes from our Northwest Regional Planning Ecologist Bill Greaves. Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park is typically visited for its jaw-dropping geological feature, but it’s also one of the better birding hotspots in the Thunder Bay area. What might you see at Ouimet Canyon?
Today’s post was written by Kestrel Wraggett, a planning intern from our Northwest Zone. Did you know that there’s a network of nationally recognized significant waterways all over Canada? There are 42 Canadian Heritage Rivers within the country, 12 of which are located in Ontario. Two of these designated heritage rivers run through Northwestern Ontario … Continue reading The Boundary Waters/Voyageur Waterway: a Canadian Heritage River
In honour of our 125th anniversary, we’re delighted to unveil our invitation to find yourself at Ontario Parks.
Did you know you can determine your directions without a compass or GPS? It would be wonderful if we had a built-in system to help us tell direction. If we did, it would probably have saved many lives who became lost by travelling away from safety rather than towards it. Humans are not very good … Continue reading How to tell direction without a compass
This installment of our 2017 blog series IBAs in provincial parks — brought to you by Ontario IBA Coordinator Amanda Bichel of Bird Studies Canada —focuses on the spring migrations at two of our southwestern parks. On my recent trip to Rondeau Provincial Park / IBA for the Wings of Spring festival and the Port Franks … Continue reading IBAs of Ontario Parks: tundra swans and spring songbirds
