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Lake
of the Woods Provincial Park
photo
from Ontario Parks
This
park is in the beautiful lake country north of Lake
Superior, near the Ontario-Manitoba border. To get
there, take the southern Trans-Canada route --
leading west from Thunder Bay, or east from
Kenora.
You'll
find provincial parks across Ontario, particularly
in the northern sections north of Orilia, although
a dozen parks with campgrounds lie along the
Highway 7 route betwen Ottawa and Orillia (on Lake
Simcoe).
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Ontario
Both
the northern and southern Trans-Canada routes in
Ontario avoid freeways, mainly passing through
rural landscape in the south, and through the
forests of the Canadian Shield north of Orillia and
Ottawa.
Those
who love the outdoors should probably plan a
combination of northern and southern routes. The
road along the east shore of Lake Superior is one
of the Canada's great drives, with scenic parks
along the way. The more northerly route, through
Hearst, offers hundreds of miles of wilderness
driving, with nary a village to mar the view. Both
routes linking Thunder Bay and Kenora offer
hundreds of lakes, forest, and convenient
provincial parks with campgrounds.
Ottawa
is the largest city on any of the Ontario routes,
with Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie much
smaller. Toronto is not on the Trans-Canada, but is
80 miles (128 KM) west of Peterborough.
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The
Trans-Canada Route
(from
east to west)
Southern
Routes:
- From
Ottawa -- Highway 7 to Carleton Place and
Peterborough.
- Highway
7 to to Lindsay, Brechin, and Orilia, and
Waubushene.
- Highway
69 from Waubushene to Parry Sound, and
Sudbury
- Highway
17 from Sudbury to Sault Ste. Marie, Marathon,
and Thunder Bay
- Highway
11 from Thunder Bay to Ft. Francis, and Highway
71 from west of Ft. Francis to
Kenora
- Highway
17 from Kenora to the Manitoba
Border
Northern
Routes:
- From
Ottawa -- Highway 17 to Pembroke, North
Bay.
- Highway
11 north from North Bay to Kapuskasing, Longlac
and Thunder Bay
- Highway
17 from Thunder Bay to Dryden and Kenora.
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