Killbear Provincial Park
Encyclopedia
Killbear Provincial Park is a park located on Georgian Bay
in Parry Sound District, Ontario
near the town of Nobel
.
Activities in the park include camping
, swimming, boating, cycling
and fishing. The park's proximity to southern Ontario
make it very popular, especially in peak season, and reservations are often necessary despite its large number of campsites.
Killbear combines sandy beaches with the granite
and pine
s of the Canadian Shield
. The park provides habitat for the threatened eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ontario's only venomous snake. There are many "Please Brake for Snakes" signs along the park's roadways. Other reptile
s found in the park include the:
Canadian songwriter Hayden Desser
has a song entitled "Killbear" on his 2004 album Elk-Lake Serenade
.
2010 marks the 50th Anniversary of the official opening of Killbear Provincial Park.
Georgian Bay
Georgian Bay is a large bay of Lake Huron, located entirely within Ontario, Canada...
in Parry Sound District, Ontario
Parry Sound District, Ontario
Parry Sound District is a census division of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its seat is Parry Sound. Its boundaries are Muskoka to the south, the Sudbury District, the French River and Lake Nipissing in the north, Nipissing District, Ontario and North Bay in the north and east and parts of...
near the town of Nobel
Nobel, Ontario
Nobel is a village located on the shores of Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Municipality of McDougall in the District of Parry Sound. The community is named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite....
.
Activities in the park include camping
Camping
Camping is an outdoor recreational activity. The participants leave urban areas, their home region, or civilization and enjoy nature while spending one or several nights outdoors, usually at a campsite. Camping may involve the use of a tent, caravan, motorhome, cabin, a primitive structure, or no...
, swimming, boating, cycling
Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
and fishing. The park's proximity to southern Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
make it very popular, especially in peak season, and reservations are often necessary despite its large number of campsites.
Killbear combines sandy beaches with the granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
and pine
Pine
Pines are trees in the genus Pinus ,in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.-Etymology:...
s of the Canadian Shield
Canadian Shield
The Canadian Shield, also called the Laurentian Plateau, or Bouclier Canadien , is a vast geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil that forms the nucleus of the North American or Laurentia craton. It is an area mostly composed of igneous rock which relates to its long volcanic history...
. The park provides habitat for the threatened eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake, Ontario's only venomous snake. There are many "Please Brake for Snakes" signs along the park's roadways. Other reptile
Reptile
Reptiles are members of a class of air-breathing, ectothermic vertebrates which are characterized by laying shelled eggs , and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes. They are tetrapods, either having four limbs or being descended from four-limbed ancestors...
s found in the park include the:
- Eastern Fox SnakeFox SnakeFox snake is the common name given to two species of North American rat snakes. Neither is any threat to humans. Unfortunately, due to the striking resemblance to the Massasauga rattlesnake , it is killed by many people who mistake it for the Massasauga.The eastern fox snake is...
- Eastern Hognose Snake
Canadian songwriter Hayden Desser
Hayden (musician)
Paul Hayden Desser who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.His early works are a largely eclectic mix of genres from grunge rock to alt country, as demonstrated by his first full album, Everything I Long For, released in 1995. Since then his work has become...
has a song entitled "Killbear" on his 2004 album Elk-Lake Serenade
Elk-Lake Serenade
Elk-Lake Serenade is the sixth full-length release by Canadian singer-songwriter Hayden. It was released on 18 May 2004 in Canada and in the U.S.A. . It was released two months later in the U.K...
.
2010 marks the 50th Anniversary of the official opening of Killbear Provincial Park.