Algonquin Adventures / Full Fire Ban

**Posted by Bampot** 8/13/2025 12:13 pm

Dear Reservation Holder,

This email is regarding your upcoming reservation with Ontario Parks.

Effective Thursday, August 14, 2025 at 5pm Algonquin Provincial Park is entering into a FULL FIRE BAN. This means that no open fires are permitted within the park at any time. Fire hazard conditions are monitored daily and fire bans are lifted as soon as conditions improve. Campfires and charcoal/wood-burning barbecues are not permitted during a fire ban. Portable gas/propane/naphtha stoves or barbecues with a shut-off control valve are permitted.

What is allowed during a fire ban:
- portable gas or propane cooking stoves
- portable liquid-fuel cooking stoves
- propane barbecues

What's not allowed during a fire ban:
- campfires
- charcoal or wood barbecues
- biomass stoves
- candles
- torches
- propane fire pits or bowls

For more information on what equipment is permitted during a full fire ban visit: https://www.ontarioparks.com/parksblog/equipment-allowed-fire-ban/

Visit our website for up-to-date information at: Alerts in Ontario Parks

Remember: if your campfire starts a wildfire, you can be held responsible for suppression costs and/or damages.

Sincerely,

Ontario Parks

Last edited by Bampot (8/13/2025 12:20 pm)

**Posted by Lenny** 8/13/2025 1:59 pm

Surprised it took this long to be honest.

**Posted by swedish pimple** 8/13/2025 2:09 pm

should open up some choice camp sites ,, i have seen it before , people pack up and leave ,

**Posted by Shanny G** 8/13/2025 2:37 pm

swedish pimple wrote:
should open up some choice camp sites ,, i have seen it before , people pack up and leave ,

Exactly what I’m hoping for this weekend!

**Posted by Jdbonney** 8/13/2025 6:23 pm

It’s odd to me to base the camping experience on a fire. So many things I enjoy about camping and Fire is definitely on the list, but it’s a long list. Strange to me that people would cancel a trip due to lack of fire

To each their own. We are going in Monday and I’m figuring out a new meal plan that doesn’t involve a fire anymore.

**Posted by scoutergriz** 8/14/2025 9:03 am

Lenny wrote:
Surprised it took this long to be honest.

Me too! usually after a week or so of hot, dry weather they start with non- cooking fires, then graduate to a full fire ban if conditions persist, I expected the first to happen weeks ago...

**Posted by scoutergriz** 8/14/2025 9:07 am

Jdbonney wrote:
It’s odd to me to base the camping experience on a fire. So many things I enjoy about camping and Fire is definitely on the list, but it’s a long list. Strange to me that people would cancel a trip due to lack of fire

To each their own. We are going in Monday and I’m figuring out a new meal plan that doesn’t involve a fire anymore.

There are an awful lot of people who believe that the campfire is their whole reason for going because it's the one thing that they can't do at home, there are others that think charcoal is the only real method for barbequing and refuse to cook or bbq any other way.

**Posted by bheard** 8/14/2025 12:04 pm

Lenny wrote:
Surprised it took this long to be honest.

Me too absolutely agreed.
IThe rain that came through on Tuesday was my big hope… I watched the satalite and looked like a lot of the heavier rain bypassed the park.

I would never cancel a trip due to fire ban - too much work goes into carving out & booking my trips.
…but I’ll absolutely miss it this weekend & week.
Steak on fire… plus I typically spend an hour or two every night staring into the flames and then embers … I’ve been known to go to silly lengths to find the ibest firewood to maximize the latter.

Still… if the dry conditions are even remotely as dry as it is in SourhWestern Ontario right not now… it seems like a completely reasonable step.

Now I hope for lots of rain sandwiched between my two August trips.

**Posted by scratchypants** 8/14/2025 5:39 pm

Fires tie me up and rob me of my night vision. I can comprehend a group of 3 or more being bummed, but 2 or less, meh.

Full Fire Ban - effective August 14, 2025

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