Agawa Bay is Superior in front of the van and mature pine behind the sand. The pictographs at Agawa Rock are a walk from those sites, on a rock face the lake still reaches. In July and August, Ontario Parks puts interpretive guides on the rock, run from the Agawa Bay Visitor Centre.
Rabbit Blanket Lake is the inland campground near Highway 17, a smaller lake in the same park. Ontario Parks lists Crescent Lake campground as closed as of September 2026.
Further on the Trans-Canada, Hattie Cove in Pukaskwa National Park is the vehicle campground for this coast. Parks Canada lists electrical hookups there.
Marie Louise Lake in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park is about an hour from Thunder Bay on Highway 587. Ontario Parks lists sites that take large RVs, and many have electrical service. If you need more sleeping space than a campervan, see RVs for rent in Ontario. Wawa and Sault Ste. Marie are the Highway 17 towns on the way, and Thunder Bay is the city for this park.
Ontario Parks opens camping reservations up to five months in advance. Book Agawa Bay or Rabbit Blanket Lake first. The van is the second booking.
Manitoulin Island and the Chi-Cheemaun
The Chi-Cheemaun crosses open water from Tobermory to South Baymouth. Owen Sound Transportation Company runs it daily from May into mid-October and does not sail in winter.
For a campervan the boarding rule is propane. Owen Sound Transportation Company limits total propane to 65 L as of September 2026, across at most two cylinders, and may refuse a vehicle over that or one it cannot verify.
Misery Bay is day use only, with Lake Huron shoreline and no overnight. Ontario Parks calls it the only operating provincial park on Manitoulin Island, so there is no provincial campground for the van. The van night there is a private campground you check yourself, or the Bruce Peninsula side from Owen Sound.
The Thousand Islands
Granite islands split the river along the Thousand Islands Parkway between Brockville and Gananoque, off Highway 401.
You cannot sleep in a van at the national park's mainland site. Parks Canada offers only roofed oTENTiks at Mallorytown Landing, with no vehicle sites, and island camping is boat-access only.
Kingston and Gananoque are the towns on that stretch. Across the water, the trip continues in New York.
Achray, Barron Canyon, and Grundy Lake
The Barron Canyon trail leaves east of Achray and walks the cliff top over the Barron River. Achray is Algonquin's east-side campground, a different road from the Highway 60 side.
Ontario Parks has a limited number of sites that can take a recreational vehicle, with no electricity and generators prohibited. The campground typically runs late April through late October.
Grundy Lake Provincial Park is the car-camping stop on the way north, with a beach and a visitor centre near the sand. Ontario Parks lists electrical hookups on many of those sites. It is the easier night outside mid-summer weekends.
Quetico
Canoes leave French Lake at Dawson Trail and head into a park with no facilities, services, or signs on the campsites and portages. Ontario Parks calls Quetico Ontario's first wilderness-class park. Dawson Trail Campground on French Lake is the car-camping edge, the night the van spends.
The paddle on the other side of that border continues in Minnesota. West of Ontario, the trip continues in Manitoba.
Toronto, cottage country, and the southwest
Toronto is the Highway 60 side of Algonquin. Mississauga has Credit River days and no public campground of its own. Brampton takes the night at Albion Hills in Caledon. Oakville sleeps at Bronte Creek.
Milton walks Kelso and the escarpment parks and sleeps at Bronte Creek. Ajax walks the Rouge and sleeps at Darlington. Oshawa sleeps at Darlington on Lake Ontario. Newmarket uses Sibbald Point on Lake Simcoe.
Whitchurch-Stouffville has no public campground of its own. Orangeville sleeps at Earl Rowe in Alliston.
Barrie camps at Awenda on Georgian Bay. Orillia uses Mara and McRae Point. Collingwood sleeps at Craigleith, with Blue Mountain as the day. Parry Sound camps at Killbear on Georgian Bay.
Kawartha Lakes camps at Balsam Lake. Peterborough paddles the Kawartha Highlands and sleeps at Warsaw Caves.
Hamilton sleeps at Valens Lake, with Dundas Peak and Webster's Falls as the day. St. Catharines takes Niagara Falls as the day and Chippawa Creek as the night. Brantford camps on the Grand River at Brant. Simcoe camps on the Long Point spit.
Guelph camps at Elora Gorge. Kitchener sleeps at Laurel Creek in Waterloo. London camps at the Pinery at Grand Bend. Chatham camps at Rondeau.
Windsor takes Point Pelee as the day and Wheatley as the night. From Windsor and from Sault Ste. Marie, you cross into Michigan.
Ottawa sleeps at Fitzroy on the Ottawa River. East of Ottawa, the trip continues in Quebec. Belleville camps at Sandbanks. Greater Sudbury camps at Killarney's George Lake.