Mikisew Provincial Park

Late yesterday afternoon, we arrived at Mikisew Provincial Park. It is a small 323 acres (130.71 ha) park, established in 1964 in South River, Ontario.















The Park offers three shallow sandy beaches, boating and paddling around the small islands on Eagle Lake, as well as hiking through hardwood forest and past ponds and wetlands.















Last evening, we had a little time to walk to the entrance of the trails and then take a stroll down to Eagle Lake.

On the way to Eagle Lake, there was a sign a the start of a trail going to the Eagle Lake General Store should anyone need groceries or other items that they needed restocked.

We walked to the first of the three beaches and then continued along the pathway through a small wooded area with campsites and it wasn't long before we arrived at the second beach.

At this point we decided to turn around and return to the trailer for the night.















This morning after breakfast we decided to follow the path back to Eagle Lake and continue following the path beyond the beach.















The first trail was called the Lakeview Trail. It took us through, wooded areas, past the boat launch and out to a point of land where you could see a large areas of the lake.















As we continued along the path we came to the first yellow marker for the Old Dog Trail.

We continued following the Old Dog Trail as we knew it would eventually join into the Maple Canyon Trail and take us back to the start point of all three of the hiking trails.

We crossed one of the roads going through the Park and found the Old Dog Trail marker and the marking post showing both the yellow and the blue line for the Maple Canyon Trail.

It was a nice walk through the forest until we came to the starting point of the three trails near the entrance building and the golf course.















After lunch, Ron wanted to go fishing, while I took the dog along the pathways through the campsites taking photographs of the autumn colours.

Unfortunately for Ron he didn't manage to catch any fish, but he did enjoy being out on the lake. I got some wonderful pictures of the trees and the lake.

It wasn't long before we were back at the trailer and I was making supper.

We decided to have an early night as we wanted to do both the Beaver Meadow Trail and the Maple Canyon Trail.