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ORILLIA AND AREA’S FOUR SEASON PLAYGROUND!

BLACK RIVER WILDERNESS PARK
Reconnect This family-friendly campground located in Rama is
owned and operated by the Chippewas of Rama First
Nation. It’s serene 180 acres is ideal for nature lovers
with Nature and history buffs alike who seek to take in the healing
wonders of the Black River and local Indigenous
culture. Paddle your canoe, arrange a medicine walk,
or sleep under the stars like our ancestors did many,
many years ago.

ROBERT L. BOWLES NATURE CENTRE
Soak in the silence and wander 100 acres of forests, meadows, orchards, and wetlands in Ramara. Every
season offers the outdoor enthusiast a chance to reconnect with nature! Snowshoe into the heart of a wetland,
join an environmental class, or immerse yourself in a Bush Breathing session.

George Langman Sanctuary

Explore an abundant network of hiking
trails that weave through protected
lands along ancient waterways as
you experience old-growth forests,
flourishing wetlands, wildflower GEORGE LANGMAN SANCTUARY
meadows, and step foot on the
Canadian Shield all in a single day. Scout Valley 61 special acres sit peacefully down the road from
Bass Lake Provincial Park in Oro-Medonte. Owned
and maintained by The Orillia Fish and Game
COUCHICHING CONSERVANCY Conservation Club, a lively variety of waterfowl such
as Canada geese, swans, ducks, and even a few rare
Founded in 1993 by a small group of dedicated Discover nearly seven-kilometres of mixed trails in upland game birds call this marshland home. Enter
volunteers, this charitable non-profit organization has Ramara between Adams, Alexander Hope Smith, a magical 6-kilometre forested trail-loop and keep
grown to conserve over 14,000 acres across the re- and Sweetwater Farm Nature Reserves, which your eyes (and ears) peeled for rabbits, pheasants,
gion and offers over 23-kilometres of free public trails. traverse Precambrian granite rock, safeguard a highly turtles, tamaracks, wildflowers and more!
vulnerable aquifer, and secure wildlife like beaver,
In the Township of Severn, Grant’s Woods Nature moose, bear, coyote, and deer.
Reserve features four-kilometres of connecting Slow down
footbridges, including an updated, fully accessible Along the Trent Severn Waterway at Thomas C. Agnew
trail. This mature forest has been left untouched for Nature Reserve, enjoy two-kilometres rich in reptiles and strengthen
over a century and bursts to life in the spring with and amphibians, then wind your way down to your senses in
thousands of white Trilliums. Afterwards, head to Oro-Medonte and take in the forested hills of the Orillia &
Orillia’s Scout Valley and take in 228 acres on a Oro Moraine at East Coulson Swamp, which connects Lake Country.
preserved, city-owned property that was once the to a vast system of Simcoe County Forests.
location of two gristmills in the mid-1800s.
Don’t forget to pick up a copy of the Conservancy’s
Passport to Nature to learn more and participate in
year-round activities with like-minded individuals!
For more information visit OrilliaLakeCountry.ca

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