I am wondering if there are any desi restaurants around the park?
And can someone please also recommend a half decent motel/hotel in the cities adjoining the park such as Dwight?
Any other hints n tips for a wonderful time are welcome too.
Thanks in advance

Here is a Map of the park area. Huntsville is one of the nearest main towns.
They do have a good selection of restaurants. The closest ones that you come to curries are the Chinese Restaurants, i.e. if you like the type of food that they cater. But no desi restaurants, to my knowledge.
Another hours drive from there, in Orillia, you do have a few good ones that you can find to your taste, but not desi one. Pancakes and 'Vegetable Chillies' with toast or crackers are the specialties that you might go for. Lots of fish and chips, If you do like them. Also stir fries.
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&country=US&popflag=0&latitude=&longitude=&name=&phone=&level=&addtohistory=&cat=&address=&city=dwight&state=on&zipcode=#east

http://www.huntsvillelakeofbays.on.ca/

There is one in Barrie, way south of the Park. It ishere under this line. Please call and confirm before you get there.

Tara Indian Cuisine Ltd.
128 Dunlop Street East, Barrie, ON L4M 1A4
Phone: 7057371821 | Fax: | Toll Free:
E-mail:
Website:
Contact: Yar Mohammad
Type: Indian Restaurant

As regards Accomodations are concerned, they all fleece you, because of the season. It will set you off by 150 bucks a day and it does not matter where you stay. Most of them are higher up.
If any one is a scout or a back packer then, here is a hostel. Make sure you carry an insect repellent and a bug spray such as OFF and mosquito coils. It will be a lesson in survival.

Happy Holidays and hope this confirms your findings too.

Freddie.

Hello freddie

your msg "Make sure you carry an insect repellent and a bug spray such as OFF and mosquito coils. It will be a lesson in survival."

Were you really talking about canada?????



panna

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Hello freddie
your msg "Make sure you carry an insect repellent and a bug spray such as OFF and mosquito coils. It will be a lesson in survival."

Were you really talking about canada?????
panna

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Hello panna28,

I am really happy that you asked if it is about a place in Canada. I would stomp on the ground and say YES. It is in Canada and there are a hundred more of these places that we patronise during the Summer months. It is a lot cooler and secluded and it is away from the CILIVISATION. We meet people and say hello. Fish or hunt if it is the season. All these require permits and passes. We used to go and live in a camper or people use the RV's today. It is home away from home. The Park permits are available and if it gets filled then we move on to the next. But curently we reserve and go if it calls for.
Imagine thousands of years ago when the population of any nation was just a million and the facilities that one had were bare minimun, we enter into an era when survival was of the prime importance. Everyone was a Nature Lover and people lived off the land farming etc.,. Industries were a few. May be your best friend was a collie and neighbor who lived nearby was 20 or 30 miles away. There was no help nearby or handy and communication was with a smoke screen and wet blanket.... Yes we are entering the by gone eras. That is what I am talking about and Algonquin is one of those places for Nature Lovers. Please read through the pages in the link exhaustively whenever you do get a few hours to do the same. It will give you a clear picture of what these parks are and the life within it.:
http://www.eco-explorations.com/algonquin-facts.htm
There are a lot of young kids who belong to the Scout Movement who venture into these parks, a bus load of them in fact, and have a few weeks of living out in the wilderness with barest of necessities. They camp and have rollicking time singing songs, swapping tales, and developing a camaraderie between themselves and return back in time for the start of the schools, just in time for the last 'Long weekend of the summer' and get a pair of 'keds' to go to school, with a book and a pencil, all tanned trim and rearing to start another grueling semister. That is called Camping.
We did our share of the camping when there were only twelve channels on the TV knob and Ukawave was just in the horizon. There are hundreds of lakes to boat and fish and no shortage of fresh water there and surely while away our summer in the Nature and get to know the Natives. It was back to the nature. Currently they call it a survival camp of sorts.
Currently the population of Canada is 10 persons per hectare or three to a square mile. A hundred years ago it was ONE to a sq. kilometer.
There are years when the forest fires burn a million acres of bush and timber in a span of few weeks during the summer. At that time we are doing the dancing in the night clubs with a few bottles of lager while the local Indians are doing the rain dance with gaa gaa eyes looking to the skies hoping to see a few drops fall from the skies. What a paradox in 'Gods own country' .
You have a long way to go after you land here and before you hasten things just take a few minutes and explore through the websites and find things for your self what IS CANADA.?! It is ungulibabble!!....
Thanks for asking, Here is just a small sampling. Hope you enjoy reading it.
I enjoy writing about it and reminiscing the years past.

Freddie.

P.S. In those days the Highway 400 to Barrie was two lanes and it just stopped few miles past Barrie. Gas was 40 cents an imperial gallon and ST stood for standard time. {there was no GST nor PST (Taxes) }
A six ounce glass of beer in a tavern was 10 cents, cheaper than the bottle of water we buy in Bulk today.!! Have we moved up a long way... since then...
FR

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P.S. In those days the Highway 400 to Barrie was two lanes and it just stopped few miles past Barrie. Gas was 40 cents an imperial gallon and ST stood for standard time. {there was no GST nor PST (Taxes) }
A six ounce glass of beer in a tavern was 10 cents, cheaper than the bottle of water we buy in Bulk today.!! Have we moved up a long way... since then...
FR

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Your post is to the point and perfectly rounded to what I wanted to know.
Looks like it is a choice between camping or shelling out 200 bucks per night / drive back home in the evening.
I am gonna head back home and spend 200 elasewhere
Thanks a lot once again for an exemplary post