In my opinion this is unsafe for the French River, namely on Georgian Bay and the upper French/Lake Nipissing. There is nothing comparable in Algonquin. This will encourage people to travel when it is unsafe to do so.
 As well, the MNR indicates that there are sites that don't actually exist. That was always ridiculous, but seems even more problematic with site-specific reservations.

Those warnings on the FOAP website are not very accurate FYI.

Woohoo! What an adventure =)

I've never done that portage in the fall, but a few years ago AA's very own Bob & Diana McElroy had trouble getting through to the point that they had to turn around: https://mcelroy.ca/bushlog/20150909.html

That's why I added that note =)

Turns out we had a gathering on Jean island without even realizing it ;)

But yea, that was a lot of fun! I remember one of the times the ice had just gone out, and as me and Markus paddled down the lake a chunk of ice floated by lol

I had no trouble in October 2020.

Haha, yup. They've bought from me in the past. When I reached out a few months ago they wanted to hold off until the new museum was going to open, so, to your point, I'll add a calendar reminder to reach out to them again about that =)

@MartinG - The park actually has a high water portage extension that crosses it now. Peek can speak to that in more detail (he's my source). You can see the routing on my map.

Thanks for mentioning the book by the way! I just ordered a copy.

It looks like the author only has a few copies left according to his Facebook page. You can get it from https://from-the-kitchen-window.company.site/From-The-Kitchen-Window-p437537230 in case anyone else is interested.