Kayaking / Canoeing Guides and Trips in Ontario
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Trips
Algonquin Park Opeongo-Lavieille loop fall 2008
Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
Kayaking / Canoeing | 60 miles
Kayaking / Canoeing | 60 miles
4 day solo kayaking trip in Algonquin Park, Fall 2008.Opeongo-Proulx-Crow-Lavieille-Dickson-Opeongo lakesI camped at Big Crow Lake, Lavieille, and at the end of the long portage in the East arm of Opeongo.The meandering Crow river is very beautiful. The firetower on Crow lake is cool to check out. I have seen photos of others climbing the ladder to the top but I didn't... you have to get up 20 feet before you can...
Trip exploring Georgian Islands Provincial Park & surroundings.Some hiking, mostly kayaking. I camped at various places on Beausoleil island. Honeymoon Bay is a nice spot. I thought it was mainly going to be kayakers and canoers at the campsites, but it's quite the opposite - almost everyone were power boaters.The channels around the norteastern part of Beausoleil have very heavy boat traffic, especially near long weekends.http://outdoorjay.blogspot.com/
Started out late in the day, so we decided to start at Conestoga instead of West Montrose. Water level was fine, although not much rain recently. Got in at dark.
4 day trip on the Lower French River from Hartley Bay Marina to Georgian Bay and back. this is a classic loop to do in Ontario. A little bit of everything - leisurely river paddling, big lake waves, some whitewater, even long straight, open river sections you can sail on if the wind is right.I got my SLR wet halfway through the trip unfortunately (didn't do dry bag zipper up all the...
Algonquin Park - Rain L. - White Trout L. Loop
Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada
Kayaking / Canoeing | 61 miles
Kayaking / Canoeing | 61 miles
This
particular trip could be done any where from three to seven days
depending on how fast you want to go. We chose to enjoy ourselves, and
spent the middle of this trip moving steadily without hurry. We
expected to see most of our wildlife in the Grassy Bay coming off of
the Petawawa into White Trout L. or on Otterslide Creek but it wasn't
until the narrows between Otterslide L. and Little Otterslide did we
see our first...
Dresden to Wallaceburg on the Sydenham River
Dresden, Ontario, Canada
Kayaking / Canoeing | 13.4 miles
Kayaking / Canoeing | 13.4 miles
This is a day trip that is just under 22kms long. It starts at Tony Stranak Conservation Area in Dresden and Finishes at Corrothers Conservation Area in Wallaceburg travelling on the Sydenham River. The put in is nice and easy without much worry of damaging the hull of your boat or getting un-necesarilly wet or muddy. From the put in travel South west on the river. When we did...
This route starts at the location of the annual canoe and kayak race launch point held by the local Conservation Authority. The put in and take out are easy for launching and taking out but there are numerous points on this route that without adequate water levels you'll have to line your boat for some distance. We did this route in late summer and it was, to say the least a challenge....
Rice Lake to Campbellford and back - Trent River/Canal
Trent Hills, Ontario, Canada
Kayaking / Canoeing | 54 miles
Kayaking / Canoeing | 54 miles
2 day trip down the Trent River/Canal from Rice Lake to Campbellford and back from my friend Steve's cottage to Ferris Provincial Park and back.This was my first multi day kayak trip and extremely exhausting, a long paddle of 43 km each day. The three of us had just bought our sea kayaks a week or two earlier. The first day we were going with the current and decided not to get...
Flotilla of paddlers hit up the Eramosa river from Rockwood to Guelph with a lunch stop on the river banks.
Canoeing/kayaking the Grand River in late May.. fast & high water from lots of rain the previous week.
Kayaking the Grand River from Cambridge, Ontario to Paris, Ontario
My son and I visited the Frost centre for some camping and geocaching on the Nunikani loop. I'd read about the trip in Kevin Callan's "A Paddler's Guide To Cottage Country" and it seemed like a nice easy trip to close out the season.We almost cancelled, because despite booking our site late, seemingly minutes after I made the reservation the weather report turned nasty calling for cold weather, high winds and showers....
Running Creek, Wallaceburg to MacDonald Park
Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada
Kayaking / Canoeing | 6.1 miles
Kayaking / Canoeing | 6.1 miles
This short paddle starts off either at Macdonald Park near Port Lambton or at Corrothers Conservation area in Wallaceburg. It's a slow moving creek either way unless you try to paddle it in the spring, then you'll want to check the flow direction as it changes throughout the year, depending on the water levels in the two rivers it joins. There are some intersting old bridges on this trip but not much...
Kayaking around Giant's Tomb Island. The Southeastern shore has some nice beaches to hang out on although I din't. I just stopped for a short period on both the southern tip and northern tip of the ismland. The southern tip has an automated lighthouse. Apparently there's some ruins of a former manned lighthouse in the south but I did not come across it.Weather was calm on the way to the island. However,...
Kayaking a section of the Grand River from Hwy 18 to Caledonia.Started out late, got in at dark, as usual.
I should have known better, but we decided to go from Grand Valley to Fergus... in September. Fun but super brutal, we probably had to walk at least 6 km through the river with kayak in tow due to low water. It was dark before we even reached Belwood Lake. Portaging the Shand Dam at night and then running the rapids on the other side without being able to see from the...
