The best thing about a vacation is the family time, the memories made for life. There's no better place to get back in touch with your family, and with yourself, than here in North Muskoka. Beautiful scenery, clean lakes, wildlife and a host of local attractions make this a great place for all ages and interests.
From museums, theatres, extreme mountain bike parks, specialty shops and world class restaurants to the back yard bbq and a day just spent hanging out at the lake, there's nowhere better than here in the summer.
Now is the time to book your week with one of the great North Muskoka resorts.
www.northmuskoka.com North Americans take less vacation time than our European neighbours -- who long ago recognized the critical importance of that time spent away from work, dis-connected from the gadgets and letting the spirit breathe. It's time we took advantage of our own backyard, here in Ontario, and the opportunity to take that week away. No ne
ed for line-ups in airports, security checkpoints, and worries over lost luggage -- we're less than three hours from downtown Toronto, but an entire world away.
Give us a call. We've got your summer...
down the rivers and lakes from Algonquin Park to Dorset across the rise of land into Raven Lake. 20' long logs were hauled a half mile uphill, over the 70' rise. From Raven Lake, through a series of dams, the logs were driven into the Black River system and on to Trenton to the mill. It took two years to put the drive over the tramway, three years to complete the run to Trenton. Built at a cost of over a million dollars in 1893, it was only used once... It has been described as a lumberman's desparate scheme, but what's a lumber baron to do when he has over a million logs floating in Lake of Bays, and needs to get them over the hill?
o is the R.M.S. Iroquois, who plied these waters until she was decommissioned at South Portage dock, where she burned to the waterline, and was sunk and filled in to become the South Portage Dock. If you stand on the end of that dock, and look down in the water to the right of the dock, you can still see her stern underwater.
ed for line-ups in airports, security checkpoints, and worries over lost luggage -- we're less than three hours from downtown Toronto, but an entire world away.
Lake of Bays is sparkling again. Last night the moon glistened off the ice and this morning we can sit on the dock and watch the ice moving, shifting, tinkling and disappearing down the lake through the streams and waterfalls to the south.