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Anyone got any gems they'd be willing to recommend or share? If it's a secret one you'd like to kind of keep close to your chest, PM me and I assure you I'll do the same...the last thing I want with any campsites is to have the drunken frat party crowd to find them and next thing you know it's rap music at 2AM and smashed beer bottles everywhere.

Would prefer something without a long hike to reach from parking location. I'm too broken to be able to hike 10km into the woods anymore.

Tired of waiting for the provincial parks to re-open so I can go sit in the woods around a campfire. It's time to look at alternatives.

Don't need or care about services at all. I know how to dig a cathole. ;)
 
Do you have a canoe?
 
Don’t own.
Could borrow.

However, unless we’re talking a short trip it’s probably not a great idea for me. I like boats with engines, preferably more than one. My track record with self powered vessels Is dodgy. ?
 
I'm not loaning you one then, I don't want to be held responsible for you taking an unplanned swim.
 
As many private camp places are talking summer contracts only, and provincial parks are not yet ready, you may find the "easy access" crown land spots will get crowded.
I like the spots just off #69 north of parry sound, park on side of highway and hike over the ditch to a river bank.
I dont kjnow how comfortable I'd be leaving a bike on the side of a highway, never worried about cars
 
I very rarely camp at campgrounds on trips. 99% of the time, I travel backroads and look for a trail/gated driveway etc where I can sleep for a bit and shouldn't be in anybodies way. I am normally only there from 23:00 to 06:30 and don't want to set anything up or have a campfire so it has worked for me so far. On rare occasions, I have plopped in someones driveway if it was getting to the point that it was not safe to go on, normally leave by before 06:00 if I do that though.
 
Anything you reach by canoe, it won't be busy, by car or motorcycle :/ not so good.
mosquitoes are thick right now unless you take to the high ground, black flies are done, ticks are bad everywhere.
 
Trials said:
Anything you reach by canoe, it won't be busy, by car or motorcycle :/ not so good.
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I used to think that and went almost every year to Kawartha Highlands (mostly before it was called that). I would go in three to five portages to get away from people. Almost every time, someone would either drop in with a float plane or be a wanker portaging an outboard that had left a tinny on every lake. bleep off. If you are not going to get here with human power, stay on the first lake and run your outboard all you want.
 
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check out Algonquin access point #6 (Canoe Lake) if you want to experience canoe traffic. I've had to wait 15 minutes to use the portage into the Joe Lakes, gotten to Tom Thompson twice only to find all spots taken by people without reservations. There is a reason they refer to that stretch as the highway 401 of the park...
 
GreyGhost said:
I used to think that and went almost every year to Kawartha Highlands (mostly before it was called that). I would go in three to five portages to get away from people. Almost every time, someone would either drop in with a float plane or be a wanker portaging an outboard that had left a tinny on every lake. bleep off. If you are going to get her with human power, stay on the first lake and run you outboard all you want.
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lol North of Toronto became busy and commercialized decades ago, Algonquin park used to be even busier in the 1960's
I live in the county of poverty, lots of places here with no services and no humans.
 
Thanks. I can navigate a canoe skillfully and spent my fair share of time in them over the years, but it's just not my bag anymore with wonky shoulders...and a centre of gravity that's not what it once was. ;)

Not going on the bike for this one, taking the cage. My daughter is coming and we're not going to skimp on gear as a result since we'll be prepping meals and such, so it's not going to be just a "pull in late and sleep" type thing.

As for the bugs, I have industrial strength deet and a thermacell, both are very effective solo, extremely effective together.

I think we found a spot. Looks a little bit too convenient potentially, but we are going Sunday/Monday versus Saturday/Sunday, so hopefully any potential riff raff won't be there, although reports are that those sorts of problems aren't super common as it's very much a semi remote/no services type location.
 
Yes but one place is minimum 10k hike, forgot the name right now I have to dig through my gps data. Another, Franklin island, 4KM canoe ride CalTopo - Backcountry Mapping Evolved
There's also moon river area 45.105267, -79.923539

I seriously doubt there's any car access crown land where you can camp within reasonable distance. That's good because it acts as a filter.
 
Thanks. My days of 10K hikes through the woods are behind me unfortunately.

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I seriously doubt there's any car access crown land where you can camp within reasonable distance.
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There is. A lot of it consists of places like boat launches & such however at small/remote lakes, not all of which are ideal as they’re just a little too easy to get to, but technically anywhere there’s a road passing through Crown land where you can park safely you could camp 30 feet off the side of the road if you so desired, however obviously that’s not particularly ideal either.
 
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I'm feeling Poe's Law something fierce right now
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I actually spent a few hours on the crown land website a few days ago. It's actually a bit of a clunky dogs breakfast, but for a government website I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Can't even take GPS coordinates from another site/app and punch them into it to check the status of an area, you have to try to dead reckon from one map to the crown land website based on landmarks such as lakes and roads.
 
My dog is trying to eat a mosquito now.
Watch for ticks I've been catching them every day. Evil *******

I think to camp at Puzzle Lake you have to arrange outback camping through Lake Mazinaw Park authorities Cloyne, it is land or lake accessible
and way too small to set down a float plane. It's a nice chain of little lakes.
 
PrivatePilot said:
I actually spent a few hours on the crown land website a few days ago. It's actually a bit of a clunky dogs breakfast, but for a government website I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Can't even take GPS coordinates from another site/app and punch them into it to check the status of an area, you have to try to dead reckon from one map to the crown land website based on landmarks such as lakes and roads.
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I am actually not doubting anybody's crown land camping anecdotes/advice. Did I just get quoted from a different thread? I'm a bit confused
 
Whoops, sometimes when you add a quote to your cache and don't actually use it in a reply...it sits in there and can pop up later when you're quoting another completely different thread.

That thread was just too BSC for me to bother replying - your reply covered my thoughts for the most part anyways.
 
Back from the trip. Found a crown land option north of Madoc and went for it along with my daughter..

Nice quiet night. Beautiful lake and not a shabby "campsite" either honestly.

Unfortunately it's one of those sites that's just a little too easy to access so it attracts some citidiots...

- People who didn't bring firewood so we need to cut down the absolutely nearest tree instead of actually making an effort to cut something out of the forest instead.

- Leaving garbage behind. Honestly, WTF people.

- Not using proper sanitation when taking a dump. Again, honestly, WTF people - if you're not going to bury it at least do it in the bloody woods, not just off a very clearly well used walking trail.

Anyhow, the little area we chose was all cool, but the few ruin it for the many.

We cleaned up the area we camped in quite a lot and left it cleaner than we found it. IMG_3632 (2).jpegIMG_3631 (2).jpegIMG_3630 (2).jpegIMG_3626 (2).jpegIMG_3624 (2).jpegIMG_3623 (2).jpegIMG_3617 (2).jpegIMG_3611 (2).jpegIMG_3597 (2).jpegIMG_3589 (2).jpeg

Felt great to get out camping finally. In related news, should be a lot more camping options opening up by next weekend now with todays stage 2 announcement.
 
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