Easy methods to plan a backcountry journey to Frontenac

Frontenac Provincial Park is a four-season backcountry park with nice alternatives for inside tenting, climbing, paddling, and winter actions!

Nestled throughout the Frontenac Arch, Frontenac has a singular panorama not sometimes present in Southern Ontario. You’ll uncover a various vary of habitats, vegetation, and animals. With upland forests, rocky ridges, and tranquil lakes, tenting is just accessible to paddlers, backpackers, and snowshoers.

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Planning a visit to Frontenac? Right here’s what that you must know to have a enjoyable and frustration-free go to:

1. What’s new?
2. How do I make a tenting reservation?
3. What’s at every campsite?
4. Can I gather firewood?
5. How do I purchase a day move when the workplace is closed?
6. Can I convey my canine?
7. What’s there to do at Frontenac?
8. Do you lease canoes?
9. Will my telephone get reception?
10. Can I convey my motorboat into the park?
11. When does Huge Salmon Lake Street shut?
12. What do I have to find out about backcountry etiquette?

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1. What’s new?

Earlier than your journey, guarantee all of your reservation particulars are right. This consists of:

• get together measurement
• identify of get together member(s)
• journey itinerary
• license plate quantity(s)
• description of apparatus (e.g., tent, canoe, and/or pack color, pets, and so on.)

Please have an digital or printed copy of your affirmation letter with you.

NOTE: If you may be parking at Huge Salmon Lake, Arab Lake, or the Workplace car parking zone, please make sure to choose, “Sure” you may be parking throughout the park, when making your reservation. In any other case, park employees won’t have your license plate on file, and you could obtain a parking ticket.

Advance every day automobile permits

Every day automobile permits at the moment are obtainable prematurely. Permits can be found at 7:00 am, 5 days prematurely of your arrival date.

This lets you buy your every day automobile allow on-line, earlier than coming to the park. This additionally means you possibly can assure your entry throughout busier occasions of the yr, comparable to the autumn.

We strongly suggest seasonal allow holders reserve their spot, particularly within the fall and winter. On their very own, seasonal permits don’t assure entry to a park. If the park reaches capability, no further autos can enter and not using a reservation, together with seasonal allow holders.

The advantage of your seasonal allow is which you can make your day-use reservation without spending a dime! When making your reservation, you possibly can enter your allow’s serial quantity, which can modify your price because of $0.

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2. How do I make a tenting reservation?

• on-line (choose the “Backcountry” tab)
• by telephone at 1-888-ONT-PARK (1-888-668-7275)
• in particular person on the park workplace

Reservations are site-specific. Make sure you analysis your route earlier than making a reservation. Park maps can be found for buy on-line and on the park workplace.

Bear in mind, don’t overextend your self. Journey inside your capabilities and in keeping with climate circumstances.

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3. What’s going to I discover on my campsite?

4. Is firewood obtainable?

Every provincial park is guided by permitted administration route. Typically, assortment of pure objects comparable to useless wooden in provincial parks is prohibited; nevertheless, in some backcountry/wilderness parks, assortment of useless wooden for a camp hearth is permitted by permitted administration route.

At Frontenac Provincial Park, you possibly can gather useless, fallen wooden or buy firewood from the park workplace. We ask that campers assist shield our forests by not bringing in their very own firewood.

We additionally encourage using moveable refillable camp stoves within the inside as a method of decreasing the necessity for leisure fires. The usage of moveable stoves scale back the positioning degradation brought on by the elimination of vegetation for campfires and reduces the elimination of ecologically necessary woody particles.

Campers who convey firewood from dwelling could accidently unfold dangerous forest pests comparable to Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, that threaten the well being of our forests.

Questioning if the park is below a fireplace ban? All the time verify the Alert web page earlier than you depart.

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5. How do I purchase a allow when the workplace is closed?

If you may be arriving outdoors workplace hours, you’ll need to acquire your tenting or every day automobile allow on-line.

We are going to not be accepting guide money funds outdoors of workplace hours.

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6. Can I convey my canine?

7. What’s there to do at Frontenac?

8. Do you lease canoes?

Frontenac Outfitters, situated simply 2 km earlier than the park entrance, rents canoes, kayaks, and SUPs!

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9. Will my telephone get reception?

10. Can I convey my motorboat within the park?

11. When does Huge Salmon Lake Street shut?

12. What do I have to find out about backcountry etiquette?