I'll volunteer. It was on my short list for last weekend, but I went elsewhere and I'm still curious.  I may try it on a long weekend in the spring.  Didn't the PCI submitter have more route info?

Looking forward to seeing more.  Part of the reason I didn't go was the presence of access roads from the south and whether or not that contributed to abuse/degradation of the area.

this thread is older, but i actually just read it. Barry, we checked out if we could get into Victory lake, from Park lake,'but the entrance was totally grown shut, could not pass it with the canoe, and to swampy to walk it.

Selfrialence was looking for more of the route discription. Once entering at the end of the easy portage from hw 60, theres a short river piece to park lake. Along this stretch there are several cottages. River was plenty deep and wide, lots of floating moss islands etc. Park lake has an unofficial small, dark and dank campsite on the right hand side of the lake (across from hw 60) and traffic from here can be heard clearly. The river between park lake and Snow lake is wide, swampy and has a few undeep spots, but there was plenty of water for us in september 2015 to continue. the river part turns away from hw 60 towards snow lake The area looks little used.We did not see motorrized boats. The entrance to snow is plugged with vegetation, but getting through was not a real problem.With the tree buffer now between hw 60 and snow lake, we could no longer see or hear hw 60. We did see some beaverdams, but they did not obstruct anything. We carefully checked along the lakeside for the campsites, but the one on the point (older jeffs map) was not to be found, the one in the middle (barry marked it #1) is actually further down then indicated. Area gives the idea that it is not used much. From the campsite we could see the cottage that Jefsmap makes a reference too as being for sale for 1.5 mil. From what we could see it was not much more then a rangers cabin. No idea how people would access this cottage, unless theres a road access somewhere. In low water situations a motorboat might not be able to cross between park/river/snow or get into snow lake at all. We did not explore any further then the campsite, but maybe this will help.

We stayed on Victory Lake site in August. That is a nice site. Good space and decent landing. Of The Snow Lake sites we were only able to locate the one further down. Closest to the cabin.Very poor site condition. Wouldn't recommend it whatsoever.  We accessed park lake from the up stream on the Oxtongue river from the outfitter  .Hard to spot the portage. Not marked at river. Have to paddle a creek to get to take out.Could not located the site marked on Park either. Could hear the highway in the distance from Victory but could not see it.  Heard some ATV traffic  to the south but not visible.

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