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Nature-based adventures for students and travelers from all over the world. All-inclusive guided canoe trips feature multilingual guides.
An outdoor pathway and reception building details the history of logging in Algonquin Park, including outdoor exhibitions of historic and modern equipment. The buildings are open in late spring to early autumn, but the outdoor trail and some exhibits are accessible in winter.
The park has long been a destination for Canadian artists. The Algonquin Art Centre focuses on art that highlights Canadian wilderness, wildlife, and nature.
A large, busy lake along the Highway 60 corridor, connecting to several canoe routes and served park facilities along the highway. It's also an important location in Canada's artistic history. A ghost town toward the north-west shore of the lake, Mowat, was a company town for a sawmill that opened at the end of the 1800s with a population of 500. After the sawmill closed, the isolated town become a small tourist retreat, attracting Tom Thomson, an influential artist who worked with a group that would go on to form the Group of Seven. Before the founding of the group, Thomson drowned here in the summer of 1917 at the peak of his artistic career. A cairn stands on the lake, opposite from the Mowat town site, but his resting place is in Owen Sound.
In the northeast corner of the park, Grand Lake provides backcountry campsites on its southern shore. From Grand Lake, you can also access Carcajou Bay to see waterfalls flowing over granite, or portage to the Barron River and Barron Canyon. Achray Campground is located here, so visitors can combine daytime canoeing with car camping, in a more remote location than the Highway 60 corridor.
The park's largest lake, with rentals and access off Highway 60. The expanse of the lake and wild shorelines create a scenic route for canoeing, but also provide little shelter from strong summer winds. Some paddlers time their departure to avoid strong winds, or use a motorboat water taxi to skip Opeongo completely. Many backcountry campsites dot the shores of each arm of the lake.
A short 1.5 km, but popular and challenging loop takes hikers up to the cliffs overlooking the Barron Canyon and River. Caution is required along cliff edges, which are not fenced from the trail.