ALGONQUIN PARK TRAILS HAVE SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

   As one of the first provincial parks in Ontario, Canada, Algonquin offers a diverse number of interpretive walking trails in its almost three thousand square miles.  From spring to early fall the trail guide booklets are available at each trail head or through the park’s bookstore.  The nineteen different walking trails are open to visitors for day outings from 7 am to 10 pm with a valid park permit that can be purchased at the entrance to the park. 
    

The Algonquin Logging Museum Trail is one of the park’s most interesting and is wheelchair accessible.  The history of the logging industry is summarized on this easy walk of 1.3 km that has a recreation of a camp cabin and a steam powered tugboat on exhibition.  The Barron Canyon Trail leads high over the one-hundred meter deep canyon with a scenic overlook.  The Bat Lake Trail loops around a lake with a beautiful stand of hemlock trees. 
    

 An excellent view of beaver ponds can be had by taking the 2km Beaver Pond Trail while the Berm Lake Trail takes visitors around the 4.5 km pine and oak forests surrounding the lake.  Spectacular ancient white pines can be viewed, along with the remains of a nineteenth century logging camp, on the Big Pines Trail.  Booth’s Rock Trail takes visitors to two lakes and an impressive overlook while Brent Crater Trail explores a meteorite crater that has an observation tower overlooking it.

    

One of the most demandingtrails is Centennial Ridges, a 10 km loop with a view along the two high ridges.  Hardwood Lookout Trail winds through a hardwood forest and ends with a view of Smoke Lake and the hills surrounding it while Hemlock Bluff Trail goes through a mixed forest to Jack Lake.  Located in Achray Campground, where it begins and ends, is the Jack Pine Trail, noted for being the location of the Tim Thompson painting of the same name.
    

 Another difficult trail is Lookout Trail that, while steep and rugged, offers a spectacular view of the park.  Mizzy Lake Trail is the longest trail at 11 km and visitors should plan for a full day to travel this trail, which goes through nine ponds and small lakes.  Looping completely around the shoreline of Peck Lake is the Peck Lake Trail and the Spruce Bog Boardwalk goes through northern spruce bogs via a boardwalk over them.
    

The Track and Tower Trail is difficult but offers a wonderful lookout over Cache Lake.  This trail also has a side trip visitors can choose to take that goes along an abandoned railway ending at Mew Lake.  The Algonquin’s natural forest is viewed along the Two Rivers Trail which ascends easily to a cliff covered with pines.  And last but not least is the Whiskey Rapids Trail of moderate difficulty due to one steep uphill section.  This trail travels along the Oxtongue River to the picturesque rapids.
    

 Many of the park’s half a million visitors each year make use of the day trails which are an important part of the park’s cultural heritage.

 

 

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