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Voyageur Provincial Park Trip

 Recently my wife and I went to Voyageur Provincial Park for the first time. We just did a short one night camping trip but quite enjoyed ourselves, and will happily camp there again. 

We left work early on Friday and made it to the park by 2:30. It is just an hour drive from Ottawa for us, so we only needed to take half a day off. 

Once we got to the site we were informed that there was a fire ban in effect as of that day, which was disappointing as we had planned to cook hotdogs over the fire for dinner but were able to adapt, because thankfully we had brought a little one burner stove to heat up water for coffee the next morning. This meant we were able to use a little frying pan to cook the hotdogs in, which really saved our dinner. As disappointing as a fire ban is, I completely understand why one was in effect because it was bone dry. The earth was super hard and compacted and some of the plants looked quite wilted and thirsty, not to mention that it was a humidex of around 35 that day as well.  

The day we got there we didn't do much as it was so hot, after setting up camp we just hung around. Later in the evening we went for a walk around some of the campsites.

The next day we got up around 8, made breakfast and tore down camp. There are two loop trails in the park and we decided to do the longer of the two which was the 3.6km Wàwàshkeshì Trail. This was a very nice trail with a bit of up and down, 52m in total elevation change. This trail was primarily through an cedar forest, but also went through a variety of old farm fields, in various stages of being reclaimed by the forest. You can see old fence lines throughout the hike, and you pass through an old apple orchard. On the hike I spotted a few kinds of butterfly's, a variety of birds and some wild flowers as well.  It took us just under an hour to do the hike. 

Fully set up at site 254

Old fence line behind the site

Fully packed up. This was a large site with plenty of shade

Purple-Flowered Raspberry

Northern Pearly-Eye

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Black Capped Chickadee

Viceroy

 

 

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Location: Voyageur Provincial Park, 1313 Front Rd, Chute-à-Blondeau, ON K0B 1B0, Canada

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