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WELCOME TO AWENDA PROVINCIAL PARK’S NEW WEBSITE! 
 
 
Thanks to all the visitors to Awenda who made great suggestions about the things they wanted to see on our new website.  As we are still fine tuning this site, we certainly look forward to everyone’s continued input!

Awenda Provincial Park is located on Georgian Bay, 20 minutes northwest of Penetanguishene, Ontario.  Awenda is a classed as a Natural Environment Park and features: 333 campsites for seasonal camping, 33km of trails, a kettle lake called Kettle’s Lake, four beaches, and great Natural Heritage Education programming during the summer months.

DID YOU KNOW THAT AWENDA HAS…

  • 24 Species at Risk (1 Extinct, 6 Endangered, 11 Threatened, and 6 Special Concern)
  • over 32 species of reptiles and amphibians
  • the four major wetland types can be found here: marsh, bog, swamp, fen (coastal meadow marsh)
  • 19 archaelogical sites covering 11,000 years of human history
  • an endemic species of algae that grows in Kettle’s Lake that is found nowhere else in the world!
  • one of the largest stretches of Old Growth Forest in Canada (243 he)