Awards & Press Reviews

Dancing with wolves (nearby): a wild New Year’s Eve in Canada

At an eco-lodge in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, New Year’s Eve is celebrated around a campfire, surrounded by snow, endless forest and wolves.
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Could you stay offline on a digital detox in Canada?

Switching Off. As a result of our increasingly technology-reliant world, more people are opting for off-grid holidays than ever before.
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6 Unique Places You Need to “Camp” This Summer in Ontario

If you love spending time in the great outdoors but a tent isn’t your dwelling of choice, here are six family-friendly Ontario accommodations deep in the wilderness that will fulfill all your camping desires.
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Eco-Lodge Off-the-Grid Weekend Getaway

The Algonquin Eco-Lodge is an off-the-grid choice for lodging in the wilderness of Algonquin Provincial Park, all with the comforts of indoor plumbing, hot showers, and a 24-hour carbon neutral hot tub overlooking a private glistening lake that mirrors the surrounding deciduous and pine forest of the Canadian Shield.
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Canada’s Best Self-Propelled Stay and Play Lodges

Two feet and a heartbeat, goes the saying. With the growing interest in self-propelled recreation, we rundown four of Canada’s best stay and play lodges, as featured in the 2015-16 edition of the Mountain Life Annual.
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The Call Of The Wild in wonderful Algonquin Park

Just the name itself—Algonquin—sends the imagination soaring, evoking images of limpid lakes and sleek canoes.

But today the lakes are frozen, the canoes, snow-shrouded, huddle upside down on racks.

For, come winter, Algonquin Provincial Park has another side.

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The Incredible Lightness of Being at an Eco-lodge in Algonquin Park

In an untainted landscape there is a glimpse of something developmental, perpetual, and timeless. And in Algonquin Park, the oldest provincial park in Canada (established in 1893), you can be far from the madding crowd and yet only three hours from Toronto, the largest urban centre in the country.
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Force of Nature: Algonquin Eco-Lodge

To fire up the hot tub on the lakeside deck at the Algonquin Eco-Lodge, proprietor Robin Banerjee used to have to add a log to the woodstove every 20 minutes, for eight hours. Now, heated by the only micro-hydro generator in Ontario, the water is always steaming.
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Spectacular Winter Lodges in Canada

Located on the southern edge of Ontario’s beloved Algonquin Provincial Park, this lodge maintains 60 km of ski trails — some groomed, some just marked — that snake deep into a rarely visited part of the park. For snowshoers, three dedicated routes stay closer to the lodge. Watch for resident wolf-pack tracks on all routes.
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Wild About Algonquin

It’s man vs. moose. As we round the corner of our forested route into the wilderness Eco-Lodge where we’re to spend the night, we come eyeball to eyeball with our official greeter. A real live hairy brown moose. Never on the many excursions we’ve taken to this area — in summer, fall or winter — have we ever been this close to one of these majestic creatures.
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