We visited Lake Superior PP as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. 

From Chutes, we drove 4.5 hours (our longest stretch of the Ontario portion of the trip) to Lake Superior Provincial Park, stopping for a grocery restock in Sault Ste. Marie, and then stopping spontaneously once more for the BEST treat: a Famous Apple Fritter at Voyageurs’ Lodge. We have not stopped talking about it since!

We also bought some smoked lake trout at Voyageurs’ which was very good, but holy moly that apple fritter. Hard to imagine any treat will top it this trip, but we’re doing our best research (don’t worry, I’ve already added a Best Treat category to the Big Trip #5 retrospective post).

Lake Superior Provincial Park was wonderful. It gave us our introduction to the turquoise water and rocky shores of Lake Superior, it was where we logged by far our most hiking to date, and our campsite was a short walk from a wide, sandy beach with a dog section. We loved it.

Lake Superior is the largest, coldest, deepest, cleanest, clearest and northernmost of the Great Lakes–it gets its name from that last fact rather than its size–and it holds more water than all four of the other Great Lakes combined. It’s the largest by surface area and the third-largest by volume freshwater lake in the world, with 10% of the world’s fresh water–enough to completely cover North and South America by a foot of water. Bananas.

Campground

Lake Superior Provincial Park is huge, one of the largest provincial parks in Ontario. It has two RV-friendly campgrounds: Agawa Bay on Lake Superior in the south, and Rabbit Blanket on Rabbit Blanket Lake in the north near the town of Wawa. Trailheads dot the Trans-Canada Highway between the two campgrounds.

We stayed in Agawa Bay Campground, trying and failing to reserve in the row closest to the lake–we were a row back, so we heard more noise from the Trans-Canada Highway than from the lake, but we could still see it from our site. Our site had power and a nearby water spigot. Starlink did not like all the trees, and cell service was weak at our site but pretty strong at the beach–J was able to have a work call sitting on a beachside bench.

The campground roads and campsites are TIGHT for a 28′ trailer. Getting out of our spot the morning we left without wrapping the Airstream around a tree was very stressful!

I walked Tilly up to the dog beach for sunrise both mornings, and I don’t think she appreciated the scenery like I did, but she loved running around in the sand and chasing seagulls and chewing on driftwood.

Hiking

Armed with our list of target hikes, we stopped at the Visitor Center in our campground for a ranger’s input and got some great info about her favorites, which trailhead parking lots can fit a trailer, and alternates for low-visibility days. She agreed with our planned hikes and added one to our list.

A note about Ontario parks in general: we appreciate how loop trails are marked with a recommended direction of travel here! It makes the well-traveled trails seem less crowded when everyone is hiking in the same direction.

Our first hike in the park was along the Lake Superior Coastal Trail, stretching 40 rugged miles along the coast through the park. We did a 3-ish mile section from Katherine Cove. It was so rocky and beautiful–and we saw people swimming in the cove! Brr!

On day two we took the ranger’s recommendation and hiked Awausee Trail, her favorite trail. After a challenging climb to a viewpoint over the lake, it was a lovely forest walk, just under six miles total and very peaceful.

That afternoon we headed back out to Orphan Lake, a four-mile lollipop that we had all to ourselves, except for a fisherman packing up his gear. It was our favorite hike in the park: a lakeside stroll along pretty Orphan Lake, a tough but short trek through the trees to and from the shore of Lake Superior, and gorgeous views along the way.

The morning we left the park, we moved the Airstream (after confirming with the ranger that it would work–there’s room for RVs but you have to get there early) to the Nokomis trailhead at Old Woman Bay. Nokomis was the farthest-flung hike on our LSPP to-do list, forty minutes north of our campground and on the way to our next destination, so we were happy to not have to backtrack. Nokomis Trail is a three-mile loop with yet more awesome lake views and beautiful forest after a climb up from the road.

The ranger suggested substituting Noisy Bay, a trail to a beach, for the views of Nokomis on a low-visibility day. If we’d had time for one more hike, we would have done Noisy. Instead, we headed north from Old Woman Bay to Wawa for a night.