Lee wrote:
> > There is not a heck of a lot to see and do in the north end of Algonquin
> > Park. It is a wildernes park. If you want to get into the interior you
> > will need a canoe. There is a visitors centre/ museum on Hwy. 60 in the
> > south end. There is a portage store on Canoe Lake and a small store at the
> > Lake of Two Rivers campground., a logging museum and an arts centre. Other
> > than that, it is just hiking trails and campgrounds. It is beautiful
> > country, great for hiking and canoe tripping.
>
> The main advantage of Coboconk is that it has a more central location
> and gives us the opportunity to stay 3 nights in the same place whilst
> offering what it terms 'luxury' accommodation. I hadn't looked at
> accommodation in Collingwood because it feels a bit too far West;
I thought that you wanted to see Georgian Bay, and Collingwood is at the south
end of it and probably has the widest selection of accomodation. Another
possiblilty is Midlan, not so far off teh route to Algonquin. If you want
luxury accomodation youmigh try Deerhurst in Huntsville. You could spend a day
touring around over to the northwestern part of Georgian Bay, whic is quite
scenic.
> ; this
> part of the journey is to take in some of the Country on route from
> Niagara to Ottawa and it's quite a drive from Collingwood to Ottawa;
> google tells me that journey is 6 1/2 hours. At the moment I'm
> limiting journeys to about 3 1/2 hours a day, slightly more on the odd
> 1 or 2 days but only when were visiting a number of places in the same
> day and driving up to about 1 1/2 hours at a time. Like you say there
> are some fantastic places to stay but I'm not quite sure how I can fit
> an overnight stay or two in that location.
BTW... somone else provided a caution about deer along the highways. A bigger
concern is moose. They are a lot bigger and darker, so hard to see at night, and
crashing into one can be fatal to you as well as to the moose.
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