Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park
Beginner-friendly canoe camping and dark skies on the Shield, a couple of hours from Toronto, among lakes and rocky barrens.
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Lake Superior Provincial Park
Wild Lake Superior shoreline, the Agawa pictographs and a rugged 40-mile (65 km) Coastal Trail between the Soo and Wawa.
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Wabakimi Provincial Park
Ontario’s second-largest park: 930 miles (1,500 km) of canoe routes in caribou country, reached by train or floatplane.
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The Massasauga Provincial Park
Windswept pines, granite islands and paddle-in sites on Georgian Bay, home of Ontario’s only rattlesnake.
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Parc national des Grands-Jardins
Taiga in Charlevoix: lichen carpets, black spruce and the cliffs of Mont du Lac des Cygnes, in a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
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Parc national de la Jacques-Cartier
A glacial valley more than 1,800 feet (550 m) deep, 30 minutes from Quebec City, with a river for paddling.
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Woodland Caribou Provincial Park
Fewer than 1,000 paddlers a season on 1,240 miles (2,000 km) of canoe routes, in a UNESCO-listed boreal wilderness.
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Parc national des Monts-Valin
Snow ghosts in the Vallée des Fantômes: the Saguenay’s winter high country, with huts and 3,200-foot (980 m) summits.
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Parc national des Hautes-Gorges-de-la-Rivière-Malbaie
Some of the highest rock walls east of the Rockies, over the Malbaie River in Charlevoix, with the Acropole des Draveurs.
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Parc national du Mont-Tremblant
Quebec’s oldest park: 400 lakes and six rivers in the Laurentians, with canoe routes, wolves and a via ferrata, 90 minutes from Montreal.
