Camping & Campgrounds
of the Bruce Peninsula

Photo - Red Bay Tent & Trailer Camp

Camping on the Bruce Peninsula is an unique and wonderful experience. Numerous campgrounds on the Bruce Peninsula will welcome you and make your camping experience all you hoped it would be!  They offer a diversity of amenities and campsites. Campsites of all shapes and sizes, sunny or shaded, secluded or group areas are waiting for you and your family. There is even a campground where you can sample some of the local culture and sleep in a teepee!  Some campgrounds also offer cottage and trailer rentals in addition to their campsites. 
Reservations are recommended at all campgrounds in July and August and are a must on long weekends.

Photo - Red Bay Tent & Trailer Camp

The Bruce Peninsula is also home to many species of birds and a stop off place in their migrations in the spring and fall. Wildlife is abundant here.  Chipmunks, squirrels, porcupines, deer, rabbits and raccoon sightings are common.  Black bears, fox, fishers, and martins are here but seen less often.  Bears are strongly attracted by food and garbage so precautions should be taken in storing food and disposing of garbage.  CLICK HERE FOR THE ' BEAR FACTS" The Bruce Peninsula is also home to the Massasauga Rattlesnake. Though the population of these snakes is endangered and the sightings few, care should be taken when exploring the rocky areas of the Bruce Peninsula.  CLICK HERE FOR THE RATTLESNAKE FACTS
   

Photo - Summer House Park

Come join us and enjoy the amenities your campground has to offer.  View a spectacular Lake Huron sunset.  In the evening as you sit by your campfire, you can step back, look up and enjoy some of the best stargazing Ontario has to offer due to The Dark Sky Initiative (shielding artificial light to minimize light trespass on our night skies). 

On the Bruce Peninsula there are memories to last a lifetime.  It is a place you'll want to return to often.

 

CAMPING FACTS

• Spring Summer Fall Season - May 1 through Thanksgiving
• BRUCE PENINSULA NATIONAL PARK - Online reservations www.pccamping.ca
  Tollfree reservations   1-877-737-3783
• ONTARIO PRIVATE CAMPGROUND ASSOCIATION -Camping in Ontario guide listing member campgrounds, facilities and contact information available Information Booths, campgrounds, trailer dealers,CAA, and Camping shows.  Bruce Peninsula is Area 3A.Available Online at www.campinginontario.ca
• WINTER CAMPING ON THE BRUCE:     MID-OCTOBER TO MID-APRIL
• CYPRUS LAKE CAMPGROUND   BRUCE PENINSULA NATIONAL PARK  1-877-757-3783 Cross-country skiing  and snowshoe in the park.

BLACK BEARS - THE BEAR FACTS

• weigh between 100 and 250 kilograms
• mature at three and a half years
• solitary animals --females raise young on own
• attracted to human food and garbage
• store food in truck vehicle never in tent
• cache food off site and use bearproof containers
• pack out all garbage in sealed plastic bags
• they are more afraid of you then you are of them
• DO NOT FEED THE BEARS! We have a saying up here - "if you feed the bears
  you kill the bear"! Once a bear gets a taste of our conveniences he will continue until the Miinisry is forced to destroy the bear.
• MORE INFORMATION ON THE BLACK BEAR CLICK HERE
  
  EASTERN MASSASAUGA RATTLESNAKE FACTS
  
• rare and endangered
• poisonous
• prefers rocky habitat, like to sun on rocks
• wear thick socks, long pants and hiking boots
• look where you are putting your hands and feet
• the rattlesnake will make a rattle sound when threatened. If you here this sound just stand quiet and find out where the sound is coming from. Then walk around
  the snake. Rattlesnkes will not chase you and can only strike half the length of
  their body
• on Bruce Peninsula from Wiarton to tip
• also on Cove Island and western side of Georgian Bay
• scattered population around periphery of Manitoulin Island
• FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE MASSASAUGA RATTLESNKE CLICK HERE
  
  
  

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