Check Out Our Pet-Friendly Review of Silent Lake Provincial Park - October 2023

Are you planning a trip to Silent Lake Provincial Park?

Has this Ontario Parks location made your shortlist, but you’re unsure if it offers everything you need for that “perfect” vacation?

Last Thanksgiving (Oct 2023), we spent the weekend at Silent Lake PP, and we quickly fell completely in love with all this park had to offer. The park is located on Silent Lake (hence the name) in Eastern Ontario, near Bancroft. This is a go-to location year-round, with 2 sandy beaches, 3 hiking trails (including the 15 km Lakeshore Hiking Trail), a beautiful lake for canoeing, kayaking, or fishing, a mountain bike trail, 4 cross-country ski loops, snowshoeing, and more.

In terms of overnight locations, the park has 2 campgrounds – Pincer Bay and Granite Ridge. Here, you’ll find serviced electrical sites, standard non-electrical sites, double campsites (two campsites that share a single driveway and firepit), walk-in campsites, 8 yurts, and 10 rustic cabins. Of these, 1 yurt and 1 cabin are dog-friendly.

Our weekend started less-than-ideal. We arrived at the park at night, in the dark, in the pouring rain. Then, we made our way to our site only to find out the walk-in site we chose had a path that wasn’t the most senior-dog friendly, prompting us to switch sites before setting up for the night. But that didn’t take away from an incredible weekend of hiking and camping with dogs, surrounded by the beautiful fall colours.

In this video, you’ll see our campsite (and the one we initially booked), and we’ll take you on a couple of hikes – both on the Bonnie’s Pond Trail (with John and Indy) and the Lakeshore Hiking Trail (with Britt and Lucifer). To conclude, we’ll sit down back home at the cabin and discuss our thoughts of the park along with our final “paw rating.”

00:00 Silent Lake Provincial Park Intro
02:07 Our Campsite Drama
06:02 Bonnie’s Pond Trail
12:23 Lakeshore Trail
16:59 Our Review
17:43 Getting to Silent Lake
18:39 Campsites
19:42 Water Activities
20:19 Hiking Trails
23:17 Firewood
24:51 Winter Activities
25:54 Our Final Rating

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