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Nothing beats a Saturday morning then watching an episode of camping with the Coles :) 🍩🍩☺️

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Love that!

these videos are so helpful in deciding where im gonna go camping this summer

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Glad we can help. Happy camping!

I gotta say My wife and I are planning a trip to BC and Yukon. But after watching all the Ontario parks videos you produce we want to hang out in Ontario more. Lov the information you provide.. And who can't like the Loo reviews!

This is right in my parents backyard. Almost. They live in Barry`s Bay. Will have to camp their next year. Great video as always.

Cool fact about Bonnechere....The Davenport Centre is named after Mr and Mrs Davenport who used to be the park hostesses who stayed at the campground all summer long on site #88, hence the 2 green rings on that site post. Mr Davenport also designed the fire pit that is now in all Ontario provincial parks!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The husband of one of our viewers is a Davenport. His grandparents were the camp hosts. When she found out we were going to Bonnechere she told us the story of the naming of the Davenport Centre after them. We love hearing about the background of places we go. People really have attachments to the parks.

@gearjammer81

Жыл бұрын

Had been going to Bonnechere since I was 2 years old. Lots of memories throughout my childhood and into my adult years. Kinda gave up trying to get in there through covid because how popular camping became. Canoe tip.....it's a full day trip but canoe the river back up stream under hwy 58 up to the rapids. We had a big group and would take water toys and have water fights while canoeing up and stop at the rapids for lunch and then g head back for a family bbq

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

@@gearjammer81 We only paddled to the bridge at Hwy 58. I wish we would have had enough time to keep going to the rapids. Thanks for the tip.

Great video as always. This park is not far from our home, so we will give this a try this summer. Thank you for sharing. Love you guys

@CampingwiththeColes

4 ай бұрын

Thanks. We think you'll enjoy it!

Thanks for the review. Beautiful part of Ontario. Bonnechere caves are a must as well as a visit to the village of Wilno and Polish meal at the tavern.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tips!

Love Bonnechere Provincial Park, visiting Foy and going down Basin Road in Algonquin, amazing park!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We'll have to explore the area around the park a little more next time we're there.

We're headed up there this weekend and I can't wait! I haven't been back since 1997 or 1998.

@CampingwiththeColes

Ай бұрын

It's a wonderful little park. Have a great time.

Yup, definitely a 2, maybe a 1.5. That's why we go back AT LEAST once a year... Other suggestions for day trips - Barry's Bay is fun to poke around, Grumblin' Grannies for all kinds of knick knacks (check out the discount GG's Annex just south of town for great deals), and a well-stocked Metro for groceries. Also Charlie D's for poutine (16 varieties!) at the edge of town. For beer lovers, Killaloe LCBO claims the coldest beer fridge in Ontario - I concur! Try it on a hot August day. Round Lake Station Food Market in Round Lake Station smokes their own bacon (buy a few pounds) has basic groceries and is a well-stocked LCBO outlet.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

WOW! Thanks for all the great tips.

Love the video. Thanks for sharing

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Cool underwater music edit!! Great video and review, my family and I must check out this park.

This is definitely one of our all-time favourite parks. When the kids were young you could let them go on their bikes and not worry due to the smaller size of the park. If you are lucky enough to get a riverside campsite the experience is ten-fold. Just outside the park, take Turners Camp road into back door entrance into Algonquin and Basin Lake Depot where there are more hikes and history. I agree on the rating of 2! Shhhhhh!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We get it as being one of your all time favourite parks! The riverside sites looked amazing. Thanks for the tips.

@banshee107

Жыл бұрын

Same, first time there 24 may 22. Went there 3 more times that summer. Love it!

Absolutely stunning work folks, cinematography here is simply beautiful! Gorgeous shots and composition! 🔥🔥

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

thank you for sharing

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

That was amazing. Can’t imagine what that was like to paddle in such history😘

Beavertails come too our city at different times, setting up at malls and shopping centers, guuuuud stuff!!

Great vid your rating is spot on. One of my favourite parks!

In the winter, I would love to see a season overview with the loops of parks you travelled to, how long it took to drive between parks, and a summary of the scores for the parks in your camping loop.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Great idea! We usually do a video recapping our adventures each season. We're also thinking of doing one about the planning and execution of our 7 park Lake Superior Trip.

Great video. The trails close to Algonquin are spectacular. Great views and a wonderful waterfall.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Really enjoyed this with my tea@toast debs xx

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you for another great review. This park is now on my bucket list! Looking forward to watching the rest of your adventures.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. Still a few more park reviews left for this season.

I've been looking forward to this episode. I've been wanting to go to Bonnechere for some time, and it was great to see you review it. Excellent episode as always!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Always excited to see a new post! Great review, as always! Thanks to your reviews, my husband and I decided we must leave our motor boat behind and hit some parks with our canoe, to experience more beautiful parks! Thanks again!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The beauty of this park is that you can put a motor boat in at the boat launch, if it's under 18 feet, and head out on Round Lake. If your boat is bigger I'm sure there is a nearby boat launch. We saw bigger boats parked on sites. The river is beautiful for the canoe. Happy camping!

Another great video about a beautiful park and a fun adventure with friends.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We'll have some more fun together next season. Can't wait!

Because of your review, we decided to go to this park and we really enjoyed it. We were at the Riverloop #66. Nice and big campsite close to the beach and the canoes. We walked, took our bikes, canoed and went to the beach. It was worth the distance from Montreal, Quebec.Thank you for sharing,

@CampingwiththeColes

9 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Such a great area, we love this park

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

It really is!

The river appears to be the ideal river for those who are new or has limited experience kayaking! I’ll definitely add this to my bucket list!

We also had a great time at Bonnechere! Paddling the Bonnechere river was fantastic! Great video :)

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

It's a beautiful little place.

Thank you for another great review, this park is now on my list . Thanks for telling about the ghost walks.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it. Happy camping.

Going to have to add this one to next year's list. 😁

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Great mobility access with the mat to the beach as well as the ramp and wooden deck right on the beach. Have fun!

Welcome to the Ottawa Valley! I've been looking forward to this episode for a while, just to see what you thought about the park. We also love this park, it's a great place for the kids! Did you guys check out the view from Wilno? The view from there is absolutely beautiful as you overlook parts of the Ottawa Valley.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We drove through Wilno on Hwy 60 going from Killaloe to Lake Saint Peter PP. I wish we knew about the views before the trip. We didn't notice anything in particular driving through.

Bonnechere is a hidden gem!!

Great info guys. Oh yeah got my wife following you guys on instagram and youtube as well.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

We’ve been kayaking that river for over a decade and have never spotted a beaver! 2 in one day is amazing!! So glad you got to enjoy our little gem of a park. It’s only 35 Kms from home, so we are lucky to go often. Great rating!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately we didn't get better footage of the beavers. I was filming from my paddleboard which is slower than our friends that were in a canoe. They always led the way and got good and close to the beavers so by the time I got there the beavers were in hiding. You're lucky to live so close so you can enjoy the park whenever you want. Happy camping!

I love this park. Lots to do both in the park and around the area

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Next time we'll have to do some more in the area around the park.

Great review. Love this park went a few years ago had a site on the river. Lovely park.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The riverfront sites look amazing!

I've been alway wondering if any body ever done the whole bruce trail, and here we are finally! BTW, I'm heading out to Awenda Provincial Park this weekend and as well as this summer, Midland foor tour could be one of my options.

As always an excellent review you two! We are looking for a camping route with easy paddling at each destination and it seems this fits the bill. THX CHEERS!!!!😊

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

I called it the Cadillac of Bolers

Great video as always. Bonnechere is not far from our place & thanks to your video that is where we will be going this summer. I wish you were talking just a little bit more about pet friendly beaches. My puppy love to swim & I am always looking for park where I can take her swimming.

@CampingwiththeColes

4 ай бұрын

We stopped bringing our old dog, Kingston with us camping so we didn't think of saying much about dog friendly facilities. A year ago we got our new dog, Jax. We bring him most of the time so we talk a lot more about that stuff now.

Another great video. So sad that camping is over for another year. Might eventually cross paths with you at an Ontario provincial park.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a sad time of year with camping season coming to an end🥹 The stressful season of making reservations is just around the corner. At least we have a few more park reviews coming out before the end of the year so that's something to look forward to. We still have Lake St Peter, Balsam Lake, Algonquin Mew Lake and Bronte Creek.

We stayed at the river watch cabin at the end of september for 6 days and I gotta say this park is a real gem. Such a peaceful experience, less busy than some of the other parks :)

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The cabin looked great! People were staying in it so I didn't get real good footage of it because I didn't want to bother anybody. Beautiful little park!

My buddies as work and I were talking about your channel last week. One of them was convinced you had been hired by Ontario Parks or Ontario Tourism. I was adamant you were not. He couldn’t believe you would do this on your own accord. (In other words, it’s so good you have people thinking it’s done professionally 😉) Loved the music and the underwater effect. It was an interesting snorkel. Never seen one like that before. In my scuba days you could get one where you can talk underwater. Any fancy features? Great video, look forward to Lake St Peter

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the compliment. We wish Ontario Parks sponsored us! It would be nice to get some of that government money 💲😊💲. We make these videos for fun. We've had those snorkels for a few years now. They're really nice as you can breath through your nose and mouth like normal rather than just through your mouth like a traditional mask and snorkel. Also when you go completely under water and come out you don't have to blow out the snorkel, you just start breathing normally again.

Nice park, thanks, 13 foot Trillium trailer was my very first unit

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

It's a real nice little trailer. Cheryl loves it but there is no way she could downsize all our STUFF to travel in a little trailer like that.

Looks like a sweet park, wanted to stop at the caves on a return trip from Ottawa, but there was not enough time. I'll have to check it out in the future!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we didn't have enough time to get to the caves either.

We go there every year. There is a couple tiny bike trails.

@CampingwiththeColes

Күн бұрын

It's a great little park.

Another park we have to check out. We just went and stayed at Algonquin and drove through but headed south. Missed the chance to check this park out. Was wondering if at some point you could do a review on how your Coachmen is holding up. Thanks for all the hard work this past Summer. Your effort is greatly appreciated!

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We'll see about doing a video about the trailer. Right now it's in the shop having the rear axle replaced.

This has been one of my family's favourites, its not a very well known park and pretty out of the way and we like the sites on the river

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The sites on the river look amazing.

I’ll have to get another camping with the Coles sticker as ours disappeared

Great video. If you want to see a great and shaded beach and crystal clear water, come west to Blue Lake Provincial Park. It's amazing.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Now that's a drive for us! It looks amazing! The furthest west we've camped is Sleeping Giant. If we head out on a western Canada trip we'll look into that as a possible stop. Thanks for the tip.

If you are in that area, I also recommend visiting the Barron Canyon Trail on the east side of Algonquin (north of Bonnechere)

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip.

Thank you, Ben and Cheryl for all the awesome park reviews. We just returned from 10 days at Canisbay Lake in Algonquin with our pop-up and had a fantastic trip thanks to your great review on that campground. We did 9 different trails, some kayaking and a canoe trip to Ragged Falls, it was beautiful . We are planning on going to Bonnechere next summer and I want to ask you about Black Fly's and Mosquito in late June or early July at this campground or should we wait until late August? Thank you again for your very informative videos. John and Lisa

@CampingwiththeColes

9 ай бұрын

Hi John and Lisa. So glad to hear you had a great time at Canisbay Lake. We love it there and we're going back in a couple weeks for the fall colors. No video to make, just enjoying the area. When it comes to black flies, dear flies and mosquitoes, we try to avoid them by staying as far south as possible for June and July. We save the near north and northern parks for August and September. I don't know specifically about bugs at Bonnechere but your best bet is August or September.

@pfdylan1101

9 ай бұрын

Thank you :) enjoy your trip to Algonquin @@CampingwiththeColes

Perfect rating! I always compare your rating of a specific park with your other ratings and I think it is not in the 9 range as were two Lake Superior parks, Grundy Lake, Killbear, etc. Nicely covered, especially canoeing and kayaking trip to the river. I was wondering if those privately owned caves (Bonnechere caves?) are in the vicinity too.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support on the ratings. The Bonnechere Caves are about 57 km away from the park. We didn't go there on this trip. Maybe next time.

@HusbandnWifeDuo

Жыл бұрын

@@CampingwiththeColes 57 km is pretty far away. I don't think it is worth it.

Hi Ben & Cheryl! Could you add the dates you are there. It would be great to have an ideal. Thanks.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. We were there August 13-16.

Are those the summer nights candles from the scented market?? 👀

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

The two solar lanterns and the two color changing candles we got from Dollarama.

I know..wood being well...fallen trees(wood) some burnes better than others, in a few of the parks we've visited some of the parks wood was damp,did not burn very well. So do the Coles recommend parks wood or help the community with the purchase of wood by private sellers outside the park? If yes..what have been the experiences with this route? Cheers, love the videos.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We don't recommend the provincial park wood. We hear all the time how wet it is and the few times we had to buy park wood we experienced how wet it is. We almost always bring skids made of hardwood with us to burn. When we did our 7 park, 3 week trip we didn't bring skidwood for 3 weeks worth of fires so we had to buy wood along the way. We always tried to get it from a local seller near the parks and it was always good burning wood. When we bought a bundle of park wood, we mixed it with the little private wood we had left, to try to get the park wood burning.

@atk1da

Жыл бұрын

@Camping with the Coles Thank you for the quick response! Although we have purchased the parks wood for additional support for the park and ecosystem. We more often attempt to buy local as well. Sometimes, from both parties. We are looking forward to this year's camping season. Perhaps we'll meet yous out there! Happy and safe travels. The Atkinsons.

What kind of mask/snorkel is that? Do you like it and was it easy ro learn to use? I want to try snorkelling.

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

We've had the full face snorkel for a few years. I forget where we got it but here is a similar one amzn.to/3FOF1Mk . They are very easy to use as you just breath normally with your nose and mouth rather than just your mouth with a traditional mask and snorkel. They're pretty inexpensive. You should give it a try!

@nancybrouillard8689

Жыл бұрын

@@CampingwiththeColes thank you !

@johnogee

Жыл бұрын

@@CampingwiththeColes In your opinion, would a beard interfere with the mask to face seal and cause the mask to leak?

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

@@johnogee yeah, the beard definitely prevents a good seal. Back in the days that I used to scuba dive I would always go clean shaven to get a good seal with the mask. But just messing around at the beach when camping it's not a big deal that I have to empty it frequently.

@johnogee

Жыл бұрын

@@CampingwiththeColes thank you. We really enjoy your site.

This is just a terrible park...don't go there...nothing to do !! The Coles don't know what they are talking about Cabins are awful...river is too twisty and the lake is too round . Stay away...especially in the fall😂😂😂

cute channel. subbed

@CampingwiththeColes

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Happy camping!