What's the best trail and what's the best place to eat after. Toward the west side of the park
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Hiking algonquin
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If you want to eat after, you're looking at day trails.
You can hit the 8km Track n Tower at km 25 of Highway 60, with or without shortcuts, and with or without an optional 5 km sidetraile to get to the lookout overlooking Cache Lake.
Less panoramic but much more conducive to seeing wildlife is 11 lm long Mizzy Lake trail at km 15 of Highway 60.
There are other shorter trails to pick from on teh west side too, see http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/visi...rpretive-walking-trails-in-algonquin-park.php for the line-up of all trails along the Highway 60 corridor.
At this time of year your dining options are limited. The in-park restaurants are either shut down, soon to shut down, or very expensive. I tend to go to Whitney just past the east border of the park to either the Mad Musher or to the pizza plave another couple hundred meters further, north side of the road.
On the west side still in the park and reasonably priced, there is the restaurant at Canoe Lake just a 1/2 km north of Highway 60 at km 14, but I don't know if it will be open past this weekend. http://www.portagestore.com/sect/aboutus.htm
Other than that, you may have to go to Dwight or even Huntsville for more choices.
Try this page and type restaurant in the keyword search field. http://www.algonquinpark.on.ca/visit/services/advertisers-map-and-database.php
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Thanks very much
I forgot about the Lake of Two Rivers convenience store and snack bar. It should be open until the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, and maybe on weekends for a bit longer after that. http://www.portagestore.com/sect/lakeoftworivers.htm
It's about 5 minutes east of the Track and Tower trail head, just past the Mew Lake campground entrance, on the south side of the road. They're more like a short menu burger joint, serving hamburgers, hotdogs, and pizza as I recall. And if you're there, right across the road is a short and easy Lake of Two Rivers day trail, basically just a nice 2km walk in the woods with no special views.
For ideas, see everytrail.com and search for algonquin trails there. The link below shows many. To get just hikes, filter by clicking the "All activities box" to uncheck all, then click to select "Hiking", "Walking", maybe Mountain biking, snowshoeing and cross country skiiing, then click Search. That will give you a selection of hiking trips that others have taken in the area, along with pictures for many of those trips.
http://www.everytrail.com/trip/search?q=algonquin+trail&address=45.551984,-78.602121&activities
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Way too busy on regular trails. So we parked away and bushwhacked. That really paid off cause we ran right into a black bear. Very cool.
Sonnythebull: Its why I hate this park, really nice place, but wayyyy too much people. I miss living in northern area where you have next to nobody on the road and in the forest.
If I want to go there for snowshoeing, is it legal to go outside the marked trail? As it's really boring to use the same trail that have been used over and over. Also, does-it have enough snow over there to do snowshoeing, (over 2ft?)
If I want to go there for snowshoeing, is it legal to go outside the marked trail? As it's really boring to use the same trail that have been used over and over. Also, does-it have enough snow over there to do snowshoeing, (over 2ft?)
Go after Labour Day and outside of Thanksgiving weekend and the trails get very sparse usage. Go in winter and you would be lucky coming acrross even one other group on the trail with you.
It's legal to go outside marked trails summer or winter, though they do ask you to not do so in order to limit environmental damage to the ecosystems away from the trail. It's illegal to camp in anything but designated campsites, be it the car-camping drive-in sites or the hike-in/paddle-in sites.
In winter, you'll have plenty enough snow for snowshoeing from the Christmas break on in most years. However the danger in going off trails to snowshoe is if something goes wrong.
If you're in the bush alone, who is going to stumble across you while on their own hike if you've gone off trail? If you're off the marked trails with others, it gets much harder for others to find you and get help to you. It's also much harder for you, assuming you are able to call or get someone to call for help, to describe where you are.
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