RESTOULE PROVINCIAL PARK | Tour, Review & Our Camping Experience

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In this camping video, I’m sharing our experience camping at Restoule Provincial Park, a park tour, and my overall thoughts of our time there. Restoule is a beautiful park with a lot of water access - so if water sports are your thing, this might be the park for you. I hope this video can be helpful if you’re looking to book Restoule in the future!
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - Water Filling Station
1:23 - Kettle Point Campground Site 423
1:38 - Park Tour
6:08 - Day 2 - Visiting a Distillery and Brewery in Sundridge
7:29 - Wildlife Sighting!
7:42 - Fire Tower Trail
9:40 - Aggressive mosquitos
9:56 - Trails at Restoule
10:10 - Ranger’s Point Trail
11:01 - River Trail & Group Camping
12:04 - Beach Time
13:16 - Nearby Amenities - Groceries, LCBO, Beer Store, Gas, Supplies
13:58 - Overall Thoughts (Likes & Dislikes)
16:15 - Closing
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Accessible by canoe, kayak, or paddleboard, Restoule Provincial Park provides an easy-access backcountry camping experience. It is a great option for first-time backcountry visitors and families.
Restoule’s Stormy Lake is a jumping off point for more advanced multi-day canoe routes down the French River. Many great hiking trails are within a short distance.
All campsites are clearly marked and have a designated fire pit, box privy, and tent pads. Many of the campsites have natural sand beaches that make landing boats very easy.

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@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy a glimpse of this lovely northern Ontario Park!

@LucasWorldTravel 10 ай бұрын

Murder chickens?! 😂Y'all have stuff up in Canada that I've never heard of before. Love Alan's weather commentary. Good job using the rainy weather to drink beer!

@TheAverageTourist 10 ай бұрын

Haha Canada is just wild 😂

@Travelsheesh 11 ай бұрын

The park look so amazing made me miss Yedigollar in Turkiye, I love the beach and roaming in the wild, while camping is always best thing to enjoy raw beauty of nature

@lisam7036 11 ай бұрын

My husband and I usually do this park in the fall. Less bugs and beautiful colour

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Great tip. I would prefer less bugs and the fall colours 🙌

@AdventuresOfATravelingDon 11 ай бұрын

Oh that site at Kettlepoint is my jam. Nice and wooded. I definitely want to rent a canoe and get out on the lake. Love all the water in this park. Ah camping in the rain. A local distillery? Let's Go!!! A beautiful walk through the woods. Those views of the lake and the fire tower are epic. Nothing like a little beach time.

@AdventuresOfATravelingDon 11 ай бұрын

This park truly an experience

@AndysWorldJourneys 11 ай бұрын

another attractive spot with loads of hikes and greenery. Those mosquitoes though! Wow! You know they are bad with you have to cover your head with a net!

@MrSujano 11 ай бұрын

Awesome video, awesome park!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

So good 👍

@thetravellingwelshman 11 ай бұрын

Good lord these places really are so beautiful and have an immense amount of awe-inspirjng views to offer! You always tend to travel to the most beautiful places!

@LightBoldTV 11 ай бұрын

Great tour! Such beautiful trails 😍😍 Greeting from Malaysia 👋

@TravellerSB 11 ай бұрын

Very nice place to visit. Welk captured, well narrated and you have provided all minute details properly.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

@wendingourway 11 ай бұрын

Sure looks like a nice relaxing provincial park...very enjoyable tour and review. Bruce and Otis

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much! We enjoyed our time there 🙌

@ZabsAntsTravels 11 ай бұрын

Always loved the look of parks in Canada, they look amazing. Great video and enjoyed coming along with you!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed

@KJFTravelAdventures 11 ай бұрын

Another great review and report out. Thanks for sharing.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

@rightrecipefortravel 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tour and review of Restoule. You gave some great details.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@outworkthework 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos! Very informative, interesting, fun and your easy on the eyes ;)

@TheAverageTourist 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@Travel.with.jafari. 11 ай бұрын

Hello my friend 🙋🙋🇨🇭 Tank you for charging 👍👍 Very Very good ❤❤❤❤

@tmarano2065 11 ай бұрын

Great video Sara!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!! ❤️

@jairosadventure4315 11 ай бұрын

This is brilliant!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@traveladvisorak6065 11 ай бұрын

Enjoyed it again

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@SaltyBeaverExplores 11 ай бұрын

I’m impressed with the boat launches - they look really easy to launch from. Yeah Alan he brought the umbrella! How were the bugs at the beach?

@Kwabenaboatengmedia 11 ай бұрын

Very Loverly park!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@LetsTravelwithDnI 11 ай бұрын

Very informative and good source of information for a novice camper. Also, that's a very nice area to explore... 🙂🙂.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thanks very much!

@unstoppabledigitaltravelling 11 ай бұрын

The park is beautiful with a lake nearby, ideal spot for camping. Yes the disadvantage is having insects around. So, one needs to be prepared for that. Cute animals there.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Yes, it's a beautiful park, and we enjoyed the water. The bugs were bad, but we had a lot of bug spray.

@KitatheExplorer 11 ай бұрын

Oh boy sounds like I would need to bath in bug repellent there. Mosquitoes love me. I can stick the tip of my finger out the window and get bit. And good tip on the insect net for hiking. Also I love that you found a distillery to pass time while it was raining.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

The mosquitoes are the same with my husband... any millimeter of skin exposed and they are on it! The Distillery was a fun find!

@KitatheExplorer 11 ай бұрын

@@TheAverageTourist it’s so crazy! It just have to do with blood types because some people attract mosquitoes and some don’t.

@paradise-adventures 11 ай бұрын

This park looks great. It's a shame about the aggressive mosquitos, but the beach looks like a great place to relax and chill out.

@jimloth6091 11 ай бұрын

I'd never know you've only been camping for a year - you know exactly what to report on and hit all the information we need. Thank you!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Oh, thanks for saying that! We did a lot of research before we started to try to learn the basics. Glad it can be helpful!

@jimloth6091 11 ай бұрын

@@TheAverageTourist Definitely helpful. We spent 5 days at Earl Rowe last week based solely on your recommendation and loved it. We'll absolutely go back there - thank you!

@603travels 11 ай бұрын

If possible i would have own the Campground and work from there. Practically not feasible but Restoule provincial park seems to be a beautiful place to camp, Lots of information on your experience, lots of water access and its very easy if the campground has a store inside. I hope you had lot of fun during your camping.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, we really enjoyed camping there. It was a lovely park, and the scenery was just beautiful. Would have liked a bit more in the store.

@Explorcation 11 ай бұрын

I do like all of the trail options at this park...but not all of the bugs! The fern gulley area on the first trail was so pretty, but good to know that it turns into a bouldery hike. No shade? No problem! ☔ Glad you both were able to still enjoy the water!

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

The bugs were a major pain. But I guess that's what you get in northern Ontario this time of year. Yeah the hike would have been more up your alley from the adventure standpoint. Shade is always a plus for Alan 😎🤣

@Explorcation 10 ай бұрын

@@TheAverageTourist there are times of the year here in Florida when the bugs are a pain too :( it is a trade off for enjoying the wonderful outdoors sometimes.

@priyankapuvanakaran-wc3cm 11 ай бұрын

great vedio

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Barneylso 4 ай бұрын

I just dropped by because I have seen an inlet to Restoule River on the French River, I've been going up to the French since 1959, at that time the fishing was phenomenal and you could actually keep what you caught. Sadly, for me, you didn't even mention fishing. Next time you use a Mosquito net try wearing a wide-brimmed hat under it.

@karlmopete 11 ай бұрын

The mosquitoes that many of the northern Ontario parks this year are somewhat out of control. We invested in thermacell I tell you it’s the best investment we’ve ever made.

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

For the most part we hadn't been up that far north so hadn't got our thermacells out, but we did pretty quickly and they do help a lot. Plus we got a bug zapper for at night with a blue light that attracts them. ⚡️ The mosquitoes and biting flies are bad this year!

@calvinkang1224 3 ай бұрын

Which month was this trip? Is bug issue getting slightly better in different months?

@TheAverageTourist 3 ай бұрын

We were there on the Canada day long weekend. I think later in the season is better bug wise from what my husband mentioned. He used to live in North Bay.

@puffysnow8504 11 ай бұрын

What I have gather from other KZfaq videos is with the fire tower trail u should of went the other way up and came back down the same way I heard that way is much easier compared to going up the way u did and doing the full loop

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Good tip. I think it was just not a trail for us. We aren't adventure hikers, and my husband has a knee injury, so we usually stick to easy to moderate trails. We were just hoping for a miracle 🤣

@puffysnow8504 11 ай бұрын

@TheAverageTourist hey at least u got out and did some of the trail, that's what matters most

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

We tried!! 🤣 thank goodness for youtube, we were able to see the video and photos from the top at least 🙌

@puffysnow8504 11 ай бұрын

@TheAverageTourist lmfao .. hey thank God for KZfaq videos lol I bet you'll have to visit sleeping giant doing the same thing I heard it's like a 8 is hour trip both ways to get to the highest point in ontario at sleeping giant p.p

@TheAverageTourist 11 ай бұрын

Haha we will never make that one 🤣 thank goodness we have youtube!