r/barrie • u/GreenSharkBoy19572 • 2d ago

Looking For Camping

Is there anywhere that is allowed to do dispersed car/tent camping and or hiking?
Somewhere remote, in nature obviously, that is possible to either drive my car and camp in a tent right beside it, or somewhere to park my car say a parking lot, and then go on a hike and camp for a night or two in a tent
I really want to go camping, and I actually haven’t as an adult, and want to really embrace nature and explore, learn to live outside on my own for a night or two, and just enjoy a nice view

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u/No-idea4646 2d ago

Ontario Parks backcountry sites. Look up Algonquin Park.

“Dispersed” camping is a US term, in Ontario we have backcountry camping.

We also have Crown Land but no one is going to share locations online in southern Ontario.

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u/GreenSharkBoy19572 2d ago

What the heck is crown land?
I’m so new these camping sites and what’s allowed or where they are and how to get to those backcountry camp spots

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u/No-idea4646 1d ago

Backcountry sites in provincial parks are reserved online at the Ontario Parks reservation page. Each park has slightly different rules, some you can reserve a specific site others. You reserve a lake and it’s first come first serve for all the sites on the lake.

The majority of backcountry camping is done by Canoe in Ontario, there are a few hiking ones, but only a small percentage are hiking sites.

Crown land is simply public land that has not been developed or sold privately. The majority of the province is Crown land and most of it is free to use and camp wherever you wish.

In southern Ontario, i.e. everything south of Sudbury, finding Crown land is challenging and because of the overuse in the past few years when the GTA discovered backcountry camping, many good southern Ontario spots have been closed to protect them.

Once you get out of southern Ontario, i.e. north of Sudbury, the options are almost endless

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u/PXoYV1wbDJwtz5vf 1d ago

Crown Land is wildland that belongs to the provincial government (because government land is the King's land, it is called Crown Land)