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I've only visited BC, but Smithers is a nice little town. The Stikine River Lodge is pretty nice (if you are into outback adventures). Frog Lake is where we spent most of our time. We had our own little cabin. No signs of civilization for 300 miles. Damn it was peaceful.
The Pender Islands, off of Vancouver Island. Just like the San Juans, without the tourists. Remote, Orca's cruise by almost every day, great fishing. If you want to get away from it all, it doesn't get much better than this.
Algonquin Provincial Park, north of Toronto. You want to talk about getting away from it all...
In the off-season, ~October - ~April, Algonquin is still a nice place to get away from it all. A weekend in November you can be pretty much alone with nature and enjoy it in the peacefulness it was meant to be. But outside of that it's become an overrun, overused, and as a result necessarily over-regulated haven for wannabee campers that often looks like an extension of Toronto's suburbs. I wouldn't set foot there in July or August. Now, north of North Bay you can still find truly pristine Canadian shield...
But I suppose that just reflects the same devlopments in Toronto itself - once a nice example of true Canadiana, deserving of it's old nickname "Toronto the Good", it's devolved into an overpopulated cultural cesspool that bears no resemblance to, even sometimes openly rejects, the Canadian heritage that made it once such a great place to come to. Anyone looking for "Canada" will not find it there. Thans goodness for places mentioned above like Halifax or Lake Louise.
I've been to many of the places already mentioned, and I agree, smokinLUV, that when I've been away, the ability to see for 40-50 miles across the prairie -with the Rockies off in the western background-, always gives me that feeling in my chest like "I am home".
But I have to say, my favourite place, anywhere is right in front of the Banff Springs hotel, at Bow Falls.
I could just sit there and stare at it, until I died.,
(and yes, I have been to Niagra Falls. What a tacky tourist trap. Yecchh.)
Last edited by Ringo Fonebone; Nov 19, 2004 at 12:47 PM.
1981, went to Mount Orford once to go skiing. It seemed nice, but my buddy and I got really drunk, hot wired a snowmobile, and drove it through the hotel's glass door and into the swimming pool. We didn't wait around for the CMP's and I haven't been back to Canada since.
I live on Thetis Island in the Gulf Islands, quite close to Pender.
Originally Posted by polarbear
The Pender Islands, off of Vancouver Island. Just like the San Juans, without the tourists. Remote, Orca's cruise by almost every day, great fishing. If you want to get away from it all, it doesn't get much better than this.
81 .....MT Oxford ......hey that was my snowmoble...........JK
Originally Posted by weymouth
1981, went to Mount Orford once to go skiing. It seemed nice, but my buddy and I got really drunk, hot wired a snowmobile, and drove it through the hotel's glass door and into the swimming pool. We didn't wait around for the CMP's and I haven't been back to Canada since.