RV Journal: September Camping at Arrowhead Provincial Park

Thursday, September 18, 2014

September Camping at Arrowhead Provincial Park

We arrived at Arrowhead Provincial Park on Saturday, September 13 and are scheduled to leave this coming Saturday, September 20. We are on site # 211 in East River Campground on a very large, very private site with excellent satellite TV access. For additional pictures of Arrowhead refer to our September and October 2013 blogs.

When we arrived at the Park there was a sign at the Park Office indicating that an "active Black Bear" had been sited in East River Campground on or about September 11 and to take precautions concerning garbage, food, etc. Last evening about 8:30 pm while returning from Huntsville, (what we believe to be) that same bear crossed the road in front of us by the Campground office. No one else had seen the bear since September 11.

We have seen the usual complement of deer but one was unique in that it was a buck. However, the real "prize" was a bull moose that came through our campsite on Monday at about 4:15 pm. I was sleeping and Judy woke me to tell me about the moose. Half awake, I saw the moose and went for the camera but by the time I snapped the first photo the moose had disappeared into the brush.

These campsites tend to have about 80 feet of trees and brush separating them. The moose came out of a vacant campsite across the road from us and walked between our site and the adjacent site at a distance of about 30 feet from our RV. Next morning when we reported the siting to the Parks staff they said "no way". Obviously this was a rare siting.

Today we took a drive to Mikisew Provincial Park about an hour North of here to "scout out" some good campsites. Although there are a limited number of sites suitable for a 38 foot RV, we did find some nice sites, a couple of which had a good view of the lake and beach areas. Heard some loons while we were there. On the downside, I locked my keys in the Jeep and had to call Good Sam Club to "rescue" them. They dispatched a tow truck from Bray Motors in Sundridge and the driver took less than 5 minutes to get into our vehicle.