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City in Ontario, Canada
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Elliot Lake is a city of about 11,400 people (2021) in northern Ontario. The former mining boomtown has attempted to market itself (and its stock of inexpensive vacant housing) to retirees and visitors with mixed results.
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Restored Ranger's cabin erected in the mid 1950s; a replica of a fire ranger's lookout provides a 360° panoramic view of the area.
Let other cities have their giant geese or big moose, Elliot Lake has the biggest roadside atom in all of Northern Ontario.
Hiking trails, lakes, canoeing and kayaking, backcountry camping and trout fishing.
18-hole golf course.
Annual motorsport drag race, antique car show and activities, mid-July.
Home cooking, diner food.
Steaks, prime rib, pastas, tacos, sandwiches, wraps, fish and chips, curry, stir fry.
52 rooms, fitness centre, indoor salt water pool, conference room and business centre, laundry, broadband Internet, hot breakfast (included).
Twelve main lodge rooms, a 3-bedroom cabin with private yard, campsite and trailer rental. Snowmobile & ATV trails, swimming, fishing and dock slips. Open year-round.
Two bedrooms, shared bath, walk-out lakeside deck overlooking Porridge Lake and ski hill. Wi-fi, in-ground outdoor pool.
Sobey's Foodland, Hart Home Store, Dollarama, municipal library and a two-restaurant food court.
There are four local city bus routes. The main transfer points are the Rexall drugstore in the centre of town and the Foodland at Pearson Plaza. There is no local bus on Sunday.
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