Adventures for Wilderness is an independent guide to backcountry travel and outdoor recreation in Ontario. We write about the places, skills, and planning involved in getting into the bush safely and getting back out with stories worth telling.
Ontario has more accessible wilderness than most people realize. Between Algonquin Park, the Ottawa Valley, the Canadian Shield lake country, Georgian Bay's coastline, and the boreal north, there are thousands of kilometres of canoe routes, hiking trails, and Crown land camping available within a few hours of the province's population centres. This site exists to help people find and use those places.
What We Cover
Our content focuses on four areas:
- Destinations — Region-by-region guides to Ontario's wilderness areas, from well-known parks to overlooked Crown land corridors. Where to go, how to get there, what to expect.
- Wilderness Skills — Practical knowledge for backcountry travel. Paddling, navigation, fire building, camp craft, cold weather techniques, and the fundamentals that make the difference between a good trip and a miserable one.
- Trip Planning — Route selection, gear lists, permits, group logistics, and seasonal considerations. The unglamorous work that determines whether a trip actually happens.
- Safety — Bear awareness, river safety, weather hazards, wilderness first aid, and emergency preparedness. The stuff you hope you never need but should know before you need it.
Our Perspective
We write from experience in Ontario's backcountry, not from a desk. The advice here comes from years of paddling Ontario rivers, camping on Shield rock, dealing with weather that changed faster than the forecast predicted, and learning most of these lessons the hard way. We are not gear reviewers or outdoor influencers. We are people who go into the bush and come back with practical information about what works.
If something on this site helps you have a better, safer trip, it did its job.