Sibbald Point Provincial Park, June 2008

Virginia emailed me this lovely photo of a deer, spotted by Henry on one of their strolls. Thanks Virginia!

Sibbald Point is located on the southerly shore of Lake Simcoe near the town of Sutton. It is about a 2 hour drive from Puslinch, via 401, 407, 404, Davis Drive, Hwy 48, and Park Road. It is a huge park with lots of roads for biking and green spaces for relaxing and playing sports. The beach is lovely and long, with clean water. The sites are huge with good separation from adjacent sites. There are many pull-thru sites to accommodate the bigger RVs. Hookups are very close and not shared with adjacent sites - a real bonus. There is only one 2km hiking trail but there are lots of loops with connecting paths to explore. There are lots of different bird species. There is a small amount of poison ivy around camping sites and along the roadsides - nothing like Inverhuron or MacGregor! Mosquitos were surprisingly scarce!

We camped in the Radio Free Zone (loop 532 - 548) and would recommend it. It was very quiet during the week and only on Saturday night, did we hear excessive noise coming from the non-radio free zone nearby. The park appears to be well patrolled by wardens to deal with any rowdiness.

Karen and Bob's site - #548. This site was huge and probably good for satellite reception.

Regarding site #548, Karen and Bob wanted to camp in the sheltered area but as you can see there is lots of room to camp elsewhere on the site. This is a pull-thru site.

Hamilton's site #547. Another pull-thru site with excellent privacy.

Burr's site #545. Pull-thru with good privacy and lots of room - no satellite reception though!

Posing in front of Burr's 5th wheel

Lots of room for bocce!

Another successful potluck dinner!

The beach

The park has a park store with Kawartha diary ice cream! Yum-yum!!

In summary, this park is well worth a second visit. Next time we will go prepared to fish! Regarding sites, we agreed that the loop that was chosen turned to be the best - (sites 532-547). Of these, 532,546 and 548 offer satellite reception possibilities. For a smaller group of just 6 families, then loop 501-508 would be great. Sites 504-509 are in a contained group and would be the best if only 6 sites are needed. Site 503 is close enough that it would work too if we needed one more site for 7 families. Loop 4 (549-562) had some ok sites as well - in particular #553,556,557,559 (the last 2 two or three would work good for two families travelling together.)