Further east along the 60 corridor and not sure if your planning on multi day break/set up locations or base camping but have you considered Farm/Booth area? Just a thought. 

Last edited by Andy W (6/29/2024 2:15 pm)

Firstly, Huronda is a fantastic summer camp.  My son went there for a few years and thoroughly enjoyed himself, a wonderful experience!
As PaPaddler mentioned Canoe Lake offers many options such as the well traveled Big Trout loop. 
North Tea isn't too much further away, a loop to Maple might be worth a look.
Smoke Lake through Louisa with a Rock Lake pick up provides nice options.
 

Hi Lukatch - I am more familiar with the area of the park you're interested in than any other area of the park, so for once I might actually be able to help somebody.  I'd recommend something like this:

Day 1: Magnetawan-Hambone-Ralph Bice.  If it were me, I'd push on from Ralph Bice to Little Trout.  You just never know what the weather will do, and Ralph Bice can get pretty unpleasant in the wind.  The portages are short and not difficult.  I'm not familiar with the sites on Ralph Bice, but there are a million of them and it is well-traveled, so I imagine most are decent. If the group is large enough to need two campsites, Ralph Bice could present a headache, because the two campsites could be pretty far away from each other. 

Day 2: Ralph Bice or Little Trout - Queer-Little Misty-Misty.   The 2400 meter from Queer to Little Misty is just about pancake flat and wide, so the kids can talk about tackling a long carry, but it won't be like Everest for them.  The 900 into Misty isn't bad, there's a little more up-down there, but they'll be ok.  Really pretty lake.

Day 3: Misty-Muslim-Wenona-Bandit.  The 1030 from Misty isn't bad, it will be a mild but consistent uphill carry.  Bandit has two sites, very close to each other.  The island site is probably better suited to a larger group than the peninsula site, only because the thunderbox at the peninsula site is kind of centrally located, like a throne on a hill almost.  There are some trees around it, you can get some privacy, but with a larger group that might not be ideal.  Both campsites have plenty of space to spread out.  The only reason I would stop at Bandit instead of Moccasin for this day is because Moccasin, while an awesome lake to explore, has two sites, and just eyeballing the landings as I've paddled past, both look a little challenging to load/unload from.  I could be wrong.  I'm not sure I've ever stayed on Moccasin, but the northernmost campsite looks like it is quite large to me as I've passed by.

Day 4 - Bandit or Moccasin - Addisons Pond - Petawawa River - Daisy.  The Moccasin to Addisons shorty portage can be skipped if water levels are ok.  Unique feature about Addisons is that it is an echo chamber.  When you get to the little bay in front of the portage to the Petawawa, it is incredible how much feedback sound you get.  It is immediate and almost amplifies the sound.  The 800 meter to the Petawawa is very downhill.  It isn't bad unless it is raining a lot.  It ends with a split log bridge segment and the put in area can be a little exciting since it is a bit marshy, but they'll be fine and it will give them a story to tell.  They'll be paddling upstream on the Petawawa, but the current is not bad at all, no worries there.  There are three or four beaver dams to pull over.  They aren't bad, the kids will be novice for the first one but pros by the last one.  They'll get to say they pulled over a beaver dam plus they get some river travel.  There are two portages that go along the river, complete with photo ops in front of small waterfall areas.  The carries aren't bad, and you end up Daisy, which is home for the night.  Daisy has some nice sites on it, you can research them a bit ahead of time, but for a large group I think I like the furthest west or the western island site.    

Day 4 - Daisy-Acme-Hambone-Magnetawan.  This is a pretty short hop to the cars.

I think these segments would fit the 10am-3pm travel idea for a group...if not the kids can yell at me later on!  

Sorry to be so exhaustive.  I write too much.  Ask anybody. 

Last edited by MooseWhizzer Dave (7/02/2024 3:54 pm)

Glad to help; hope it helped!

i can confirm all what you say! we left the morning of the 9th from Rock Lake campground. there was a mass power outage the day before and same day that stretched across most of the park and all thru Barry's Bay  - intermittent outages and one surge toasted their diesel pump which runs the main waters for the rock lake campground....so no flush toilets, no hot showers....first world problems. the lake was still a refreshing morning or evening "dip".

and yes a lot of multiple tent sites that whole week and park staff ignoring that there were, very often, well over 6 people per site. i will say however that everyone was quiet and it was a peaceful week. no party groups.