Killarney Provincial Park

Date of visit: 4 August 2007
Country: Canada
Best time to visit: Summers, April - Aug

This is one place which is absolute paradise on Earth. Located in Ontario, this is not as famouse as the world famous Algonquin Provincial Park, Killarney is one of Ontario's most popular wilderness destinations. With its sapphire blue lakes and white quartzite ridges it is considered the crown jewel of the Ontario Park system.

The park contains just one campground at the George Lake entrance as it is primarily a wilderness park, left alone with little facilities to allow visitors a chance to experience the solitude and beauty of its undisturbed natural setting. It boasts spectacular hiking trails and canoe-in back country camping. The canoe routes include well maintained portages between lakes.

We hired tents in Toronto for 2 days and 1 night. You need to stock yourself with food and blankets, if you dont have sleeping bags. Food is important because there is very little that you can get close by. You will need to reach early to camp site because it is a very popular destination with the campers and site gets sold out like hot cakes.

Setting up the camp site took some time because we were all new to pitching of the tents and had to rely on the manuals and the days practice we had before we left for the camp site. Canoeing,kayaking, bird watching, cycling, fishing and trekking happens to be major activities. We headed out to the wilderness. There are some very good tracks for you to go explore. We took the one which took us through some very beautiful places I have never even imagined. I think I have never even seen such places in pictures on TV or in print.

Being one with nature is something you will not have any problem with. With 11 guys in 2 Dodge caravans the trip to Killarney was absolutely amazing fun.