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Topic: Quetico Provincial Park


  
  The Quetico Foundation - About Quetico Park
Quetico Park is one of the world's great wilderness areas.
Quetico is characterized by its haphazard drainage pattern.
As the Park lies in a transition zone between the boreal forests to the north, the mixed forests to the sourth, and the great plains to the west and soutwest it contains diverse flora.
www.queticofoundation.org /park.html   (451 words)

  
 Water Spirits Miniature Model Canoes
Quetico Provincial Park covers 4,800 square kilometers of untouched wilderness in Northern Ontario's Pre-Cambrian shield rock forest, and Park is the second largest "natural" park in Ontario.
The park is characterized by its haphazard drainage pattern.
As the park lies in a transition zone between the boreal forests to the north, the mixed forests to the south, and the great plains to the west and southwest it contains diverse flora.
www.waterspirits.com /quetico.html   (453 words)

  
 Camping in Quetico Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Parks Ontario begins taking permit reservations for Quetico 5 months prior to the trip start date — for example if your planned entry date into Quetico is August 10, Parks Ontario begins accepting reservations for that day on March 10.
Quetico Park has a "minimum impact camping" policy, ensuring this area continues to be the pristine wilderness environment it is today.
Quetico Park offers a unique opportunity to experience some of the best canoeing and camping Canada has to offer, in a setting that has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years.
www.quetico-canoe-trips.com /queticocamping.htm   (584 words)

  
 Quetico Park History
For thousands of years, Quetico Park has served as a travel corridor for native peoples and, more recently, as one of the main routes to the west for European explorers and fur traders.
Quetico Park has been in existence since 1913, but at the time trapping, commerical fishing, mining and logging were still allowed within its boundaries.
In 1913, the Quetico Forest Reserve of Ontario DPW became the Quetico Provincial Park under Ontario Department of Lands, Forests and Mines.
www.canoetrip.com /quetico+park+history.html   (606 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glacial striations on bedrock in Quetico Provincial Park
Quetico Provincial Park is a large wilderness park in northwestern Ontario, Canada, renowned for its excellent canoeing and fishing.
Quetico Provincial Park was created in 1913, although road access wasn't built until 1954.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quetico_Provincial_Park   (450 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario
Quetico Provincial Park is a protected, pristine wilderness retreat of international acclaim just north the Canada-U.S. border above Minnesota's Boundary Waters and south of Atikokan, Ontario.
The park abounds in wildlife with one area boasting four moose per square mile, one of the highest densities in the province.
Motorboats are not permitted on the lakes and waterways of Quetico Park, except in the Lac La Croix and Beaverhouse area.
www.ontariotowns.net /Atikokan/Quetico.cfm   (891 words)

  
 The Weather Network · Park Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Quetico is a park on the frontier, a borderline wilderness.
Quetico protects a good portion of Canada's half of the famed Boundary Waters, an area renowned throughout the world for its wilderness canoeing.
Quetico is home to one of the heaviest concentrations of moose in the province, nearly 2 per square kilometre.
www.theweathernetwork.com /features/parks/stories/CAON1556.htm   (370 words)

  
 Friends of Quetico Park
Quetico Park is protected, wilderness, canoe country located west of Lake Superior and stretches 40 miles north and 60 miles east-west from the boundary waters of the Canada-U.S. border.
Friends of Quetico Park is a charitable, non-profit membership based, board run organization located in Atikokan, Ontario, the Canoe Capitol of Canada.
We are dedicated to preserving Quetico as a perpetual wilderness area where the forces of nature are allowed to function freely and the activities of man have a minimal impact on the environment.
www.friendsofquetico.com   (144 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park - Map Town Ltd.
Quetico is one of the finest canoe regions in the world.
Quetico is laced with hundreds of miles of interconnected waterways through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world.
Quetico Provincial Park is one of the finest canoeing areas in the world.
www.maptown.com /quetico.html   (242 words)

  
 Experience Atikokan :: Highlights :: Quetico Provincial Park
Atikokan is located just north of Quetico Provincial Park, a vast wilderness of interconnecting lakes and rivers with amazing views of cliffs, waterfalls, wildlife and forests.
The park is more that 4,758 square kilometers of preserved landscape, and is known as Ontario’s most prestigious park.
The park can be accessed through one of six entry points located along the perimeter of the park.
atikokaninfo.com /highlights/quetico   (277 words)

  
 Your Canoe Trip Destination - BWCA (Boundary Waters) vs. Quetico Park
With "canoe only" access, fishing in both the BWCA and Quetico Park is superior to areas more exposed to public use.
Quetico Park is a protected, pristine wilderness retreat of international acclaim west of Lake Superior on the Canada-U.S. border.
The park is accessible at four points by canoe and two by car.
www.canoetrip.com /bwca_vs_queticopark.html   (573 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park
Solitude is pretty much guaranteed in Quetico during winter, where only 50 to 100 people request permits to camp in the 1.2-million acre park each year between November and March.
Quetico is a ghost town in winter, as only 50 to 100 campers visit the park each year after the snow falls.
Quetico Park has two yurts at the Dawson Trail Campground, 25 miles east of Atikokan.
verticaljones.com /scr-quetico.html   (1964 words)

  
 The Quetico Foundation - Canoe Route Maps
A large map of the entire park is available along with separate, smaller maps of each of the four quadrants of the park.
On one side of each is a satellite map (1:50,000) of one quadrant of the Park, and there is a conventional map (1:150,000) of the entire park on the reverse side of each.
The Quetico Foundation has executed an agreement with Canadian Waters Inc. of Ely, Minnesota, to be an "Official Distributor" in the United States of the Quetico Park Canoe Route Satellite Maps.
www.queticofoundation.org /map.html   (713 words)

  
 Quetico Park Information Page
The Quetico Provincial Park of Ontario, Canada (Quetico) lies adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW).
The Quetico Park is also regulated by a permit system.
If the user is entering the Quetico from the US side, each party member, regardless of age, will need to carry a photo copy of a certified birth certificate (or passport) and a second form of identification (can be drivers license, social security card, school ID, state ID, report card).
www.geocities.com /bwca_minnesota/quetico.html   (891 words)

  
 Quetico Park Wilderness information - Ontario Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Canoeists can only enter Quetico Park via six access points, of which, only two are accessible by road.
Quetico Park has been in existence since 1913, although an actual road coming close to it wasn't built until 1954.
While all logging within park boundaries stopped on May 13th 1971, stumps and other remnants of logging and mining history can still be found today.
www.quietjourney.com /queticopark.html   (888 words)

  
 Canada Quetico Fly-in Wilderness Adventure Canoe and Fishing Trips from Ely, Minnesota with River Point Outfitting Co.
Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness BWCAW -- a part of the Superior National Forest in northern Minnesota -- together share a portion of North America known as the Quetico-Superior.
Together the Quetico Provincial Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness BWCA comprise about two million acres dedicated to the protection of the Northwood's wilderness, making the Quetico-Superior one of the largest managed areas in North America for outdoor camping and wilderness canoe adventures.
Portages and the campsites in the Quetico Park are a bit more rugged because the park does not have portage crews managing the area as in the Boundary Waters.
www.elyoutfitters.com /flyin.htm   (935 words)

  
 Wilderness trip brings father, son together   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Park rules allow only a limited number of paddlers to enter Quetico per day, 10 times fewer than are allowed into Minnesota's Boundary Waters.
It was on day two that Quetico presented us with a four-mile portage, a killer task requiring us to carry our canoe and three bulging packs over an ungroomed trail of jagged rock and slippery logs.
Of the half-dozen moose I'd seen on my four previous trips to Quetico, he was by far the biggest -- at least as big as a horse -- and he and his oversize rack were staring us down.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05160/513970.stm   (1188 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park Permits and Reservations
In the Quetico, the party leader name and second contact name cannot be changed.
There are another 20 provincial parks that accept campers on a first-come, first-served basis only.
The number of additional vehicles permitted on a campsite is limited by the park and vehicles may have to be parked in a separate designated "parking lot" located away from your campsite.
www.boundarywaterscanoearea.com /quetico/Queticopermits.htm   (845 words)

  
 Quetico Provincial Park - ON
Quetico Provincial Park is located in northwestern Ontario along the Ontario/Minnesota border.
The park consists of approximately 1.1 million acres and borders the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Minnesota.
Together, the two parks provide the paddler with a unique opportunity to paddle several thousand lakes where no motors are allowed (The Lac La Croix Indian Nation is allowed limited motor access for guiding purposes on a maximum of 10 lakes per year).
www.paddling.net /places/showReport.html?67   (1362 words)

  
 Boundary Waters Canoe Routes. Quetico canoe routes. Trip routing for BWCAW canoe trips.
Park rules allow only a limited number of paddlers to enter Quetico per day, one-tenth the number allowed into Minnesota's Boundary Waters.
It was on day two that Quetico presented us with a 6.5-kilometre portage, a killer task requiring us to carry our canoe and three bulging packs over an ungroomed trail of jagged rock and slippery logs.
Of the half-dozen moose I'd seen on my four previous trips to Quetico, he was by far the biggest - at least as big as a horse - and he and his oversize rack were staring us down.
www.seagulloutfitters.com /father-son.htm   (1338 words)

  
 Canoeing
Stretching 60 miles from east to west and 40 miles from north to south, Quetico is renowned for its rugged beauty - its towering rock cliffs, majestic waterfalls, virgin pine and spruce forests, picturesque rivers and lakes - and for the best wilderness canoeing in the world.
Baptism Creek is accessible from French Lake in the northeast corner of Quetico.
Paddling close to the north shore of Quetico Lake, don't miss ancient rock paintings (pictographs) on the sheer granite cliffs.
www.ontarioparks.com /english/quet-canoeing.html   (781 words)

  
 Canoeing in Canada's Quetico Park
Quetico Provincial Park, located near Atikokan, Ontario, features over 3,000 miles of waterways lined with giant red and white pines.
As you paddle this exceptionally beautiful park, re-live the past by viewing pictographs painted on sheer cliff faces.
Quetico's water routes determined the lifestyle of the aboriginal people as well as early traders and trappers.
www.canoenorthwestontario.ca /Queticopark.cfm   (260 words)

  
 Champaign Surplus - Canoe Trip: Quetico Provincial Park, Ontario Canada and The Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Quetico and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness are 1,000,000-acre canoe parks with hundreds of miles of canoe trails, numerous Indian pictographs, waterfalls, 200-foot cliffs, great fishing, tough portages and beautiful scenery.
Moose, bear, wolves, eagles, loons and deer are inhabit the park.
The trip was in early June and that year the ice had stayed on the lakes in northern Quetico until the end of May. Despite the recent ice-out, temperatures were in the 90's and the water was warm enough for us to swim.
www.champaignsurplus.com /destinations/detail.ace?ID=1   (1787 words)

  
 Quetico Park Canoe Trips @ Wyteki Outfitters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With the world famous Quetico Provincial Park and the White Otter Lake / Turtle River Waterway Park at it's doorstep, it's easy to see how Atikokan Ontario earned the title of Canada's Canoeing Capital.
This is Canada's "Boundary Waters Canoe Area" - indeed Quetico Park links to the BWCA in the US with Remote Area Border Crossings.
The BWCA, Quetico and the White Otter Wilderness combine to offer recreational campers thousands of square miles of pristine northern wilderness to enjoy in the same manner Indians and Fur Traders did centuries ago- by canoe.
www.quetico-canoe-trips.com   (422 words)

  
 Hotels Atikokan. Reasonable rates. Family hotel, restaurant, sports bar. Reasonable rates. Access Quetico Provincial ...
Located on the north side of Quetico Provincial Park on Hwy 11 between Thunder Bay and Ft. Frances Ontario, we offer ideal access to multiple entry points for Quetico Provincial Park.
Explore Quetico, an ancient land of majestic cliffs, spectacular waterfalls and lush forests.
Quetico's large network of interconnected lakes has earned it an International reputation for unparalleled wilderness canoeing.
www.atikokanhotel.com   (543 words)

  
 1997 Quetico Provincial Park
The mosquitoes were quite active, but I found that a certain amount of shelter could be had inside the liner of the food pack.
Although it rained most of the night, the second day turned clear early and the winds remained light out of the east which was unusual and slightly frustrating.
As was the case coming into the Hurlburt chain, the Park Service had removed the windfalls, and the portage was not very remarkable other than its length and its substantial mosquito population.
www.phys.uwosh.edu /rioux/paddling/1997QPP.html   (1441 words)

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