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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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.
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Please note that this was written before we had electricity and completely revamped the washrooms.
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. Read More
Please note that this was written before we had electricity and completely revamped the washrooms.
