Here is my little review of Six Mile Lake.
This is the entrance to Six Mile Lake. It’s on a dead end road, right off highway 400, north of Barrie ~30 minutes. (No.., you can’t hear the highway from the campsites). You enter the grounds, head past the main office, then the park store, then the main washrooms, then into the forest!
After the main bath rooms, you drive down a paved road, right by the water. There are some nice private, walk-down sites that are RIGHT at the water. The other trailer sites are pretty open, and probably noisy (traffic) as the sites are RIGHT by the road. Then you start getting into the more private sites, and the main road ends at the beginning of the maple loop. I’ll get into the best sites at the end of the review Lets talk beaches! There are 3 beaches at the campground. The day use beach, beach 1, beach 2. However, I wouldn’t really call them beaches. All they did was take 30-40 dumpload trucks of sand, and made their own beach on the lake. However, if your looking for a spot to sit in the sand, it works! The fenced off water portions are pretty small, and shallow. I guess it’s only really good to dip yourself in, to cool off. They do rent canoes, and paddle boats, which is a great feature! Here are some beach pictures
I would say the majority of the campsites are fairly private. If the ontario parks website says they are private, you can be assured they are private. There also seems to be alot of WIDE, and open to the road campsites, and I would avoid those (the ontario parks website will classify those as poor i think). There is 1-2 main trails to take, which I would suggest taking, as it brings you to a nice lake, and a view ponds to view, etc, etc. Other then the 1 main trail, this isn’t a spot to do ALOT of hiking, as there just isn’t many trails. The bathrooms throughout the site are all outhouse style bathrooms. The main bathroom, with running water for showers, and flush toilets, is at the entrance of the park. Don’t book a site near a bathroom, as they stink! The campsite also has docks, that you can fish off of, or rent a space for your boat.
As far as campsites go, again, when the website says they are private, they are private! Here’s an example of what MOST campsites look like.
Here’s an example of a not so private site. The grounds have many of these as well.
And an example of a fairly private site.
I biked throughout the whole park, and noted a few key sites that you should book if your going to the park:
- Site 165: Really private walk-in side. You have to hike up a small hill, and when your at the top, you have 100% privacy.
- Site 171: Really nice site, long drive-way, lots of space. Also lots of spots in the forest, 10-15 feet behind the site to put your tent. Lots of privacy
- Site 182: Nice driveway, lots of privacy
- Site 184: Not a bad site, not amazing
- Site 106: Lots of privacy, big site, lots of shade, and your kinda baracaded between large rocks which block neighbors view
- Site 88: Lots of sun, and lots of shade. Fairly private. Kind of uneven of a site. You can see the beaver house from it, and beavers swimming by the water
- Site 80: Very private. Very good view. Your up on a cliff so you see the swamp from above. Also multiple levels. You can walk down, closer to the water where the picnic table is
- Site 79: Decent site. Kinda uneven. Behind the site, after walking over rocks, is a pond
- Site 50: Really nice site, good privacy. Right on the lake. Problem is lots of traffic from main camp road
- Site 8: Electronic site. 100% privacy. Long driveway
- Site 30, 31: Walk-down site. Camping right on the water. Not 100% sure of the privacy BETWEEN the 2 sites
- Site 140: Average site, decent privacy, lots of shade. Good thing about this site, is that you are RIGHT beside the pond, and RIGHT beside a beaver house. You can hear the beavers slapping their tale, and sometimes swimming around. There’s an island you can walk-out on
Conclusion:
Very nice, private campground. I don’t like the outhouse style toilets, but you can go to the main toilets if you want. Alot of the sites are completely surrounded by forest, and ponds, which is a plus!
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