Six Mile Lake Provincial Park - Site 81

Six Mile Lake is located near Georgian Bay Ontario.   The location is perfect for a quick and easy camping trip.  Just off of the 400 highway, you can barely hear the humming of cars while you're exploring all the backwoods trails.



Our campsite was site 81 in the Poplar Campground area.  We had booked our site for late September and would not be disappointed.  The weather was still warm and the leaves had already started to change colour.  The best part of reserving a campsite in September... barely any other campers!  We were the only campers in the entire Poplar Campgrounds area.  Far from the main road to reach these grounds and all the way at the back where we had the whole park to ourselves. 



This site was perfect for a group of 4 campers.  We had 3 cars on site with plenty of room for 2 tents and a big space for 2 picnic tables and overhanging tarps above the fire pit.  The back of the site was quite large and left us some extra room to explore.  The site itself is almost like a peninsula surrounded by water.  This added extra privacy to the site and didn't allow for any hikers to gain access to our site at all.  We were able to walk to the back of the site for about 75 feet and kick back on our lawn chairs to watch the local wildlife.



Having a great site was an achievement itself.  But the backwoods of the park had excellent trails for exploring.  These trails were easily accessed by walking over to the site next to us at Site 80.  You can walk through that site to gain access to the marked trails.  Keep that in mind if you ever think of reserving Site 80.  You won't want people walking through your site so don't reserve.  Grab something nearby.



The trails were easy to hike and provided a lot of photo opportunities.  Fall colours were changing all around the park.  It seemed that we came at the right time of year.  Warm air, no crowds and picturesque views everywhere.



While we hiked along the back country trails, we reached a small secluded lake.  You could hear the faint hum of cars zipping by on the highway.  Forging ahead towards the highway, we had reached the back of the lake and could now see the cars driving by.  Finally!  We were at one of those completely impossible places to reach when you're driving by on a highway. 

Overall Six Mile Lake was a 9 out of 10.  Keep in mind that we booked a site far from the main road and it was late September.  Most of the park seemed empty except for a few large camper sites near the entrance of the park.