Welcome. In this episode we're at Pog Lake campground in Algonquin Park.
We're all registered now. We're at site 123 campground A, Pog Lake campground. Everybody's here.
Here we are all set up. We have nice great big campsite
and we have a view of the lake over here.
It's very nice. The Salata's are just down the street over here and
they have direct access to the water.
If I could only go to one campground
this year, this would be the one I'd go to you. It has it all beautiful sunsets,
beautiful scenery,
big campsites,
great watersports for kayaking, paddleboarding, canoeing. The waters a nice temperature for swimming in.
It's nice and clear and there's so many activities to do in the area; hiking trails, visitor center,
amphitheater, stores, logging museum. There's so much to do you could easily spend a month here and
do all the different activities. Pog Lake is one of the 11 serviced campgrounds along the Highway
60 corridor in Algonquin Park. It has 286 sites. 160 of those are non-electric and 128 are electric.
It's at km marker 36.9. The dump station is nearby at km 35.6. There's a second
dump site at the Rock Lake campground and that's at km marker 40.3. Pog Lake is broken up
into 4 campground: A, B, C and the radio free camp ground. We are currently in campground A and we get a
beautiful sunset every night off the campsite. We're at campsite 123 which isn't shore side
but our friends are at campsite 120 which is basically one across from us and one over and
they are shore side. So we can keep our kayaks and our stand up paddle board there for ease of access.
We're on the Look Out Trail, one of the many trails in Algonquin Park.
Pog Lake is at approximately km marker 36 in Algonquin Park.
Now we're at the Visitor Center which is at km marker 40. Let's go in and check it out.
This is what a visitor center should be. This place is great. It has a huge area that is like an interpretive
program. You go through it, you can check out about the whole area. About the fire towers, all the
animals, the moose, the bears, everything else. Then it goes into the history of the park. The logging,
early characters that lived in the park, the lodges, resorts, things like that. Brings you right up to
where we are today. It also is the camp store and a restaurant. Out the back is a beautiful patio with
a wonderful view of the wooded and marshy area behind. They also have complimentary monoculars
back there so you get a good close up view if you happen to see any animals. This is really the
gold standard of visitor centers. A place like Arrowhead could learn a lot from this place.
For many interior campers of Algonquin Park the Opeongo Store is their starting point.
They come here get there rental canoes and kayaks, head out to the interior campsites.
The main campgrounds like Pog Lake, Mew Lake, Canisbay, parks like that, you can book a
canoe or kayak from Opeongo Lake and they'll deliver it to your site and when
you're done with it, they'll come and pick it up.
We're on the Old Railway Trail going from Pog Lake to Lake of Two Rivers. We're gonna hit the blueberry
patch, compete with some bears and pick some blueberries. This trail was, used to be railway tracks
and now they made it into a really nice trail. It kind of parallels Hwy 60.
So here we are in the blueberry fields. It's pretty close to the Lake of Two Rivers store.
The field is huge. Bears come and eat from this. Today is the 21st of August 2019. Last year
we here week earlier and there was no blueberries in the fields. That meant
that the Bears were going to the campsites and there was a lot of problems with bears foraging
in the campsites. So this year the fields are full of blueberries and I talked to the staff
at the gate, no issues with bears foraging because they have all the food they need.
When you're on the highway 60 corridor in Algonquin Park, you have to stop at the Lake of
Two Rivers camp store. There's a restaurant in there, there's groceries and ice cream.
We always stop here for the ice cream and as you can see it's a very popular spot.
We're going for a hike at Rock Lake and this is the dog beach at Rock Lake, very nice.
We've made it to the lookout at the Rock Lake Trail and
the Rock Lake Trail starts in the Rock Lake Campground.
Really does it get any better than this. Look at this view.
So it's time for the Coles notes of Pog Lake. My opinion, this is the best park we've been
to this year by far. This park is huge and there's everything, anything you want to do
in an Ontario park, this has it all. Multiple hiking trails, visitor center,
Two outposts, theres an art gallery. More canoeing than you could possible imagine.
Ampitheatre, kayaking, logging museum.
And there's also other campgrounds and there's like lodges and that sort of thing
for those that do not like to camp and still enjoy it.
If you come, you have to spend a week here at least. You need a chance to go and explore nature, explore
everything that this park has to offer. Well I give it two thumbs up. Two thumbs up. I can't give it
just one thumbs up. I give it two full thumbs up and I'm driving. Two thumbs up from Cheryl. That's four
thumbs up, so that is the highest rating we've ever given an Ontario park.
That's how much we love this place. It's quite the tourist attraction here. You got to come, you'll love it.
We won't see you for a little while. Next time we will be at MacGregor Point for Thanksgiving, which in Canada is in October.
We'll see you then. See you then.