Tag: lakes
Two nights in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Sleeping Giant PP as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Sleeping Giant was our final provincial park for this trip–or rather, the last one we camped in. We added in one more short provincial park hike just before crossing back into the US, but Sleeping Giant was our last *real* provincial…
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One night in Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Rainbow Falls as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Rainbow Falls is only an hour and a half from Pukaskwa, or an hour from Marathon. It’s a small provincial park, and we really only chose it to break up the drive from Pukaskwa to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park (two hours further…
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Two nights in Pukaskwa National Park, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Pukaskwa as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From Wawa, it was another easy trip on the Trans-Canada to Pukaskwa National Park, through White River, the home of Winnie the Pooh. There’s a statue of Pooh next to a gas station where we happened to stop. Pukaskwa is apparently pronounced “PUCK-a-saw,”…
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Two nights in Lake Superior Provincial Park, ON–Big Trip #5
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…
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Two nights in Killarney, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Killarney as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From Manitoulin Island, it was a three-hour drive to Killarney, and we’d have to repeat a lot of it in two days when we turned west toward Lake Superior. There was a minute when I wondered if it had been a mistake to…
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Two nights on Manitoulin Island, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Manitoulin as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Manitoulin Island is the world’s largest freshwater island, and it’s home to Treasure Island, the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake. (Treasure Island is also called Mindemoya Island, and mindemoya means “old lady’s bottom.”) Manitoulin is surrounded…
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Two nights in Tobermory, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Tobermory as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Tobermory is the tiny town on the northern tip of Bruce Peninsula, jutting out into Lake Huron and partitioning out Georgian Bay, often called the sixth Great Lake, to the east. Tobermory’s main tourism draw, in addition to water-based activities, is the adjacent…
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Three nights in Watkins Glen, NY–Big Trip #5
We visited Watkins Glen as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. So we didn’t love Ithaca. Brainstorming other nearby options that would give us similar access to gorges and state parks as we had in Ithaca, but based in a quirkier and more charming town, we landed on Watkins Glen, a half hour…
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One night in Ithaca, NY–Big Trip #5
We visited Ithaca as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. I’ve been intrigued by Ithaca since I was a kid and saw “Ithaca is Gorges” on a bumper sticker at home in Virginia. I don’t know if it was the thought of dramatic nature or the wordplay that appealed to me more, but…
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Trip planning: Late summer loop through Ontario – Big Trip #5
UPDATE FROM THE ROAD: HERE’S WHERE WE’VE BEEN SO FAR! ******* Uncle Jim, you will be disappointed… we finally chose between our two very competitive late summer itinerary rivals, and the winner is ONTARIO! We are super excited! The Ontario portion is focused on the provincial parks lining the northern shore of Lake Superior. We…
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