Crown land atlas (Ontario)

[jamie]

http://www.gisapplication.lrc.gov.on.ca/CLAIMaps/Index.html?site=CLAIMaps&viewer=CLAIMaps&locale=en-US

Here's a link to a map that shows Crown land in Ontario. They changed the link to a new map, not 100% on this one but basically choose CLAIM maps as an overlay and anything not colored is free to use. I'm sick of the crowding and noise at the provincial parks and the last few years have been camping out for free in the Temagami area and just outside of Algonquin. It's always first come first serve so be ready to look around, especially on a long weekend but I've never been skunked. This spring I had a whole lake to myself and no one for 15km in each direction. I've spoken to people who have spent the full summer boondocking, you just have to move it from one spot to another every 21 days and be a Canadian citizen. Heck, one road is now an annual summer camp for Quebec campers. They drag them in when the snow is still there to lock in the good spots and they are organized enough that someone is always there to look over the camp. They even have a barge to tote the atv's over the lake to access the rough stuff!

If anyone wants details on location, feel free to pm me. Just don't want to broadcast information on what is still some pretty quiet spots.

[Paul]

That is really cool I wonder if you can do that on crown land in New Brunswick


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[jamie]

www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/.../ForestsCrownLands/Camping-CrownLand.pdf

Looks like you can! Not sure if that link will open it, but I found a pdf file with "crown land camping new Brunswick", the hard part is finding out what land is crown. I think the key is also scoping out a place before hauling a trailer in. Here, most of the places are on logging roads, one way in and out. I've had to unhitch my little 4x8 to turn around because of narrow dead end roads.

It also looks like you guys can even rent crown land lots! Ontario stopped selling surplus land years ago

http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2015.09.0877.html

Another resource is http://www.backroadmapbooks.com/backcountry-maps/backroad-mapbooks/atlantic-canada-backroad-maps

I have one of the ON gps versions in my Garmin and can attest these maps are very accurate. I mean it goes down to overgrown atv trails. You can also download a free Canadian topo map from http://www.ibycus.com/ibycustopo/. It's pretty deep, you have to use a bit torrent to download it but again, it's a great contour map, uses military and satellite info. Takes a lot of space but you can break it down to specific areas to minimize that. The link has directions via youtube and even though it was years ago I remember it being fairly easy using Vuze as a torrent. The only issue is I can't use it to navigate routes but since it's only for the bush that's not a big deal. I switch to city navigator for the pavement. (Garmin Montanna, best off road gps EVER!!)

Still, nothing like BC. They have free spots everywhere, signed, on maps, supervised with outhouses even.

[Paul]

Thanks for the info I will review it!


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