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bugselda
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Mar 07, 2018

Any year round in Ontario

I am new to the forum and so far I have only been tenting. We are considering buying a small travel trailer. We love to fish year round and would like to find a park on water that we could have a year round site so we could go to our trailer summer and winter. We do not want a park model though because we also want to do a cross Canada trip before settling in. Are there year round places in Northern or Eastern Ontario? I have only been able to find a couple provincial parks for day use and anything else I Google say's seasonal once I get into the site. Any help would be appreciated.
  • bugselda's avatar
    bugselda
    Explorer
    Apr 05, 2018
    JaxDad wrote:
    bugselda wrote:
    Are there year round places in Northern or Eastern Ontario?


    I guess that kind of depends on what you consider to be ‘Northern’ Ontario.

    As a pilot ‘northern’ Ontario is definitely NOT Muskoka / Halliburton cottage country. To me Northern Ontario is the same distance north of Toronto as Pensacola Florida is south. About 1,000 miles.



    I agree. I prefer North of Huntsville. Been to Wawa a couple times and was married North of Nipigon. I would like to be within an hr of Pemrboke or Sudbury so we could go weekends while working. Every place seems to just be a place to camp not set up year round. I wanted to fish summer and winter. I would just get a property on a lake but towns do not seem to allow your rv for more than 6 weeks.
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    Fizz
    Explorer
    Apr 05, 2018
    brulaz wrote:
    road2002runner wrote:
    some consider 24 May earliest camping. I have been to N.Bay in May lakes still frozen.

    BBT


    Ice Fishing!


    Make sure to wear a life jacket.
  • brulaz's avatar
    brulaz
    Explorer
    Apr 05, 2018
    road2002runner wrote:
    some consider 24 May earliest camping. I have been to N.Bay in May lakes still frozen.

    BBT


    Ice Fishing!
  • road2002runner's avatar
    road2002runner
    Explorer
    Apr 05, 2018
    some consider 24 May earliest camping. I have been to N.Bay in May lakes still frozen.

    BBT
  • JaxDad's avatar
    JaxDad
    Explorer III
    Mar 23, 2018
    bugselda wrote:
    Are there year round places in Northern or Eastern Ontario?


    I guess that kind of depends on what you consider to be ‘Northern’ Ontario.

    As a pilot ‘northern’ Ontario is definitely NOT Muskoka / Halliburton cottage country. To me Northern Ontario is the same distance north of Toronto as Pensacola Florida is south. About 1,000 miles.
  • brulaz's avatar
    brulaz
    Explorer
    Mar 19, 2018
    A few Ontario Provincial Parks are open year round.
    You can go on their reservation system and find out which ones.

    I found 3 parks currently open for RVs:
    Mew Lake at Algonquin Park,
    And on Lake Huron: McGregorPoint, Pinery

    But I guess you know you'll be camping in sub-zero weather, with all the issues with that. And none of these sites will have water or dump stations available. But I think electricity should be.
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    theoldwizard1
    Explorer II
    Mar 07, 2018
    You don't have to go too far north in Ontario before winter get really, REALLY cold and lots of snow !
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    Tripalot
    Explorer
    Mar 07, 2018
    Valens operated by Hamilton Conservation Area might work for you if it is not too far. I believe they have camping every month but December (some law prevents 12 months camping). It is situated on a small lake.
    Valens is south of Cambridge.

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