AT A GLANCE
Why go?
Opasquia Provincial Park is one of Ontario's largest and most remote wilderness parks—a 473,000-hectare expanse of boreal forest, glacial moraine, and hundreds of lakes straddling the Manitoba border, accessible only by float plane. Created in 1983 as a wilderness-class park, it shelters North America's densest population of wolverines, extraordinary white-water canoeing routes, and pristine fishing waters for walleye and northern pike. With no road access, no permanent visitor facilities, and a three-hour flight from the nearest town, Opasquia is a true expedition destination for paddlers, anglers, and wildlife lovers willing to go where few travelers dare.↗↗↗
Good to know
- Park
- Opening hoursVaries by day
- Under 1 kmfrom Red Lake center
- Wheelchair accessparking lot
- Parking
- Good for kids
- Dogs allowed
- Official site
- 4.6 / 514 reviews
- Red Lake
A Landscape Shaped by Ice
The very reason this park was set aside as wilderness is its extraordinary geology. The Opasquia Moraine—a ridge of glacial till two kilometres wide—rises 100 to 200 metres above the surrounding boreal landscape, the leftover scar of a continental glacier's final push. Along its flanks, wave-cut terraces and segments of raised shoreline trace the ancient high-water mark of glacial Lake Agassiz, the vast Ice Age lake that once flooded much of central Canada. Bright blue kettle-hole lakes dot the moraine's crest, and the park's waterways include a hydrological oddity: unlike all other streams in the region that flow northeast toward Hudson and James Bay, the waters here drain northwestward across the Cocos Plateau, feeding into Manitoba's massive Island Lake.
