Four free (or nearly free) family getaways
Looking for ways to stretch your family vacation dollar just a little further? Here’s the scoop on four area day trips that are big…
Category: Insider
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A Day in the Life of a Farmers’ Market Farmer
6:25AM There’s a glimpse of pink through the gray clouds hovering over the dimly lit cornfield. Heavy dew and mist blankets the farm as…
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Spring into Fishing – Early Season Tips
No bugs, no water-skiers, no pleasure-boats and a pristine lake all to yourself; it is no surprise that fishing insiders know spring is a…
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Winter Road Trip
Google Search has no word for people like me – someone who is the opposite of a ‘Snow Bird.’ I don’t flee winter in…
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Winter Camping in the Kawarthas
In ice we trust, in snow we must, go camp in frozen country. With axe and saw for timber is law, to make our homes…
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Hot Tips for Kawartha Ice Fishing
Are you looking for a new outdoor adventure to try this winter? If you like exercise, sun and fresh air then ice fishing might…
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The Happy Camper’s Top 5 Canoe Trips in Kawartha Highlands – for the beginner
Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park has an incredible selection of paddle routes available for the beginner – or just someone who just doesn’t like portages. Here…
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Back to the land: Kawarthas is for Nature Lovers
“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before dawn.” I wonder if George Washington Carver, the botanist who’s credited with that…
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Margaret Laurence: Exploring her “Divine” Lakefield neighbourhood
The sun blazed down late on a Saturday afternoon in July as a friend and I ambled along Queen Street in Lakefield, Ontario (population:…
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Paddling Home – An Epic Canoe Trip in Peterborough & the Kawarthas
After over 30 years of living in the city of Peterborough, I moved a few minutes north to the small hamlet of Bridgenorth. I…
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Brothers, can you play me a tune?
It was a few weeks before Christmas (just last December) and I was hunkered over the buffet table at my friend Rick’s house party…
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An Insider’s Guide to Motel Living
Ever wonder what it would be like to spend a couple of weeks living in a motel? My family and I had the opportunity to…
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Kawartha Bass Tournaments
There is a bass tournament on a Kawarthan lake every weekend throughout the summer. Some are friendly 6-12 boat local bass club get-togethers, others…
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Paddling Routes in the Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park
Have you ever noticed what happens to the landscape about a half-hour’s drive north of Peterborough, as you pass Buckhorn or Burleigh? The stratified…
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Eating Wally – A Guide to Fish Fry in Peterborough & the Kawarthas
Fishing for me is about a peaceful time on the water trying to figure out the species of the day. I’d say 95% of…
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BBQ & Brews
With warm weather, our thoughts tend to drift to cold beer and barbecued food. Instead of travelling south, head to the Kawarthas where our…
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Twelve minutes yet a million miles away
Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park is the largest provincial park south of Algonquin. If you enjoy canoe trekking or back country camping you may have…
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When it comes to music, all roads lead to Peterborough
“I’ve got really great relationships with the people that I work with, and with the people that are coming into the community,” says Sean…
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Red Fife Wheat: a Peterborough discovery in bread baskets across the country
A man named David, a ship in Glasgow, a dropped hat and an ox – what can they all possibly have to do with…
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Fantastic Fall Fishing
People often ask me, “When is the best time to go fishing?” and my usual reply is, “Anytime you can!” And I mean it.…
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Five Reasons Fall Paddling in the Kawarthas is the Best
As Champagne is to France, Darjeeling is to the Indian Himalaya and Islay single malt is to Scotland, so is canoeing to Peterborough &…
