We work with you to design trips that meet your individual and group goals, skills, and schedule!
Trips range in length from 3-14+ days and can start any day of the week. Our trips are led by experienced and professional guides who take care of preparation, planning, safety, cooking, gear, and navigation, leaving you more time to enjoy the experience.
3 Day Fire Starter Classic
2 nights and 3 days is a great first-time trip or weekend getaway option. Depart from base camp with a picturesque day of travel to your campsite. Spend time leisurely exploring the beauty of Algonquin with its meandering rivers and lakes dotted with islands. Remember Algonquin is known as being a wildlife sanctuary, so keep your eyes peeled and camera ready for moose or beaver spotting. In the evening listen to the chilling call of the loon and gaze up at the vast night sky painted with stars. On the third day, retrace your steps towards your starting point. You’ll be surprised at how you see things differently.
Packages starting at:
$750/person + HST
5 Day True North
4 nights and 5 days is our most popular trip length. Why? It offers the perfect balance between restoration and rejuvenation, and challenge, growth, and outdoor skills immersion. Head east towards the True North Loop (North Tea, Biggar, 3 Mile, and Manitou) stopping to relax at a hidden waterfall and paddling past our resident bull moose’s habitat. Ideal for people who want to trade in their workweek for an authentic Canadian way of living. Truth, North, Strong, and Free.
Packages starting at:
$990/person + HST
7 Day Wolf Pack
6 nights and 7 days is the ideal trip for those desiring a deeper understanding and connection to nature. Each day starts with coffee and a fire-cooked breakfast. Over these days you will watch your camping skills develop and become your new "normal". We will have the opportunity to travel deep into the park and enjoy lakes to ourselves. Waterfalls and wildlife will be some of your highlights but the stillness and simplicity are what will have you reflecting on this trip for years to come. You will be amazed by the efficiency of your camping skills at this point. Tents and tarps will be packed away in record time as everyone in the group really starts to find their groove. On the water, you will be amazed how your paddling skills have you laughing at the day 1 version of yourself.
Packages starting at:
$1330/person + HST
Student/School Groups
Our student programs are available to private and public schools, summer camps and youth programs. An immense amount of personal growth and group cohesion is established through overcoming the daily challenges that tripping brings. Without access to Google for the answers, students are forced to think outside the box, meet challenges head-on, work together and make group decisions. Learning together in nature is where leaders are born. The sense of accomplishment from having navigated a route, starting a fire, cooking a meal, or finishing a 1km portage manifests in increased confidence and self-esteem. Students carry this forward and transfer their accomplishments into their daily lives, positively impacting their relationships at school and at home.
Backcountry Boot Camp
This high-intensity trip will push your physical and mental limits. Paddle hard, portage hard, and rest hard. Use natural movements to travel into the deep untouched and stay on private lakes. Island swims, yoga, bush running - watch how your body adapts to the primal way of travel. Learn to replenish yourself by cooking wholesome meals over the fire. Must have moderate endurance and strength, suitable for small groups of up to 10 people/teams. A popular choice for sports teams and Crossfit groups.
Women’s Weekend
Hang out with wonderful wilderness-loving women! This women's only trip is the perfect opportunity for quality time with your favourite women, be it your mother, daughter, sister, aunt, friend, teammate, or work colleague. The empowering nature of women trips encourages you to live in the present moment, pause often to notice the surrounding beauty, rejoice in the gifts of others, feel strong and capable, laugh fully, and sing under the stars. There is undeniably no better way to fast-track and deepen the bond you have with yourself and the relationship with your trip-mates. Great for birthdays, bachelorettes, and reunions.
Man’s Weekend
This trip is built to uncover your primal drive Spend time learning ways to not only survive but thrive in nature. Together you will hone your survival skills, crush portages and feast on meals cooked over the open fire. There will be time to kick back under the stars, and appreciate the beauty of nature without technology. This trip is ideal for any group of dudes looking to explore nature and push themselves as a tribe. Great for birthdays, bachelor parties, and reunions.
Hero's Holiday
Developed for uniformed services and veterans. This program helps face the common challenges experienced throughout service and post-deployment through outdoor challenges and self-discovery in a supportive environment.
+ What's Included
We know how much of a difference quality makes in the backcountry, so rest assured from food to gear you will be taken care of.
Travel: Canoes, paddles, life jackets.
Gear: Tents, tarps, sleeping pads/Thermarest, sleeping bags.
Food: Water purifying system, and cooking equipment. We accommodate dietary requests.
Safety Gear: Emergency communication device, compass, bailers, rope, fully stocked first aid kit. All guides are certified as Wilderness First Responders and National Lifeguards.
What do you bring: All your personal items such as clothing, toiletries. We will email you a packing list.
Additional: Floatplane transportation, professional photographer, translator/bilingual guide
+ Rentals & Outfitting
We have a large assortment of high quality gear available for rent. We are located at Access Point 1, Kawawaymog Lake, so you are able to depart straight from our base camp into the park.
Available Gear
Two canoe choices: Expedition fiberglass 60lbs or Keelless Royalex 65lbs
You can choose between two different canoe models, depending on your trip distance, terrain and canoeing experience.
Expedition canoe pack
P.F.D.
Paddles
Throw Bags
Bail bucket
Stove
Compression Sack
Sleep Mats
Sleeping Bags
Tent
Tarps
Rope Bags
30L, 60L barrels
Canoe Packs
Dry Bags
Cook Sets (2 to 4 people)
Lightweight single-burner stove with fuel
Cookware & utensils
Camp saw
+ Sample Itinerary: 3 Day Fire Starter Classic
Day 1
Arrive at base camp for 10 am
Site tour and discuss trip over refreshments
Pack out all gear
Lunch
Push off from the dock for the Park
Paddle across Kawawaymog and down the meandering Amable Du Fond
Avoid the falls and find your feet on a couple of moderate portages
Arrive at North Tea Lake
Enjoy a snack next to the rapids
Round the shores of this pristine lake and find your own campsite
Set up camp, take in the afternoon sun, and explore your new home
Build a fire, cook dinner, and stargaze
Day 2
Wake up to catch the sunrise and quietly look for moose, or sleep in if that's your kind of holiday
Breakfast
Day trip options are endless, examples include: animal tracking hike, an island swim or a bog creek lily pad paddle
Lunch
Swim, read, play and/or learn survival skills
Dinner
S’mores around the campfire
Day 3
Rise and shine, enjoy a peaceful breakfast
Pack up camp
Lunch
Cross North Tea West
Portage
Travel the Amable Du Fond in reverse and take in what you missed the first time
Cross Kawawaymog Lake
Welcome back to base camp. Go jump in the lake!
Enjoy some hard earned snacks and refreshments.
