The Ontario Parks system stretches over 125 years. It began in 1893 with the creation of Algonquin Provincial Park. In 1954 the management and creation of provincial parks came under the Department of Lands and Forests. There are now 330 provincial parks comprising 8% of Ontario's landmass which is an area larger (over 82,000 km2) than the Provinces of Nova Scotia and PEI combined.

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Learn More About Ontario Parks

History

Algonquin

Uxbridge

Quetico

Polar Bear

Park Activities and Classifications

Algonquin

Quetico

Fushimi Lake

White Lake

Batchawana Bay

Killarney

Rondeau

Songbird Nursery

Ontario is home to migratory birds that return to our lakes and forests each spring to nest and reproduce, before heading south again in the fall. See some of Ontario's migratory song birds: