2024 Season - Campground #1 - Chutes Provincial Park

This is the first of a series of videos of the campgrounds we are staying in for our 7 1/2 week vacation (to start off our retirement). We are travelling in a restored (and customized) 44 year old Taylor Coach, being towed by our Ford F150 Powerboost (Hybrid). During July and August of 2024, we will be travelling west across Canada from southern Ontario to Vancouver, and then travelling south to the US where will make our way back east toward home through Yellowstone and across the northern states.
Video recorded in July 2024.

[@robertpearson8798]

What good timing. We’re on our way back to Hamilton after a nine week trip as far as Alberta and we’re staying at Chutes for three nights beginning tomorrow, site 81. We stayed at Pancake Bay on the way out and we’re currently at Lake Superior (Agawa). We stayed at a mixture of Provincial Parks and private campgrounds on the way out and while there. Perhaps you’ll stay at some of the same ones.

[@firstchoicephoto]

It’s amazing how certain places can bring back a flood of memories. We moved up to that area years ago from Cambridge, specifically to the turnoff on the Trans-Canada Highway leading to Espanola. My dad worked at the gas station that was right across the street. That spot has since transformed into a Tim Hortons, a restaurant, and another gas station.
My dad, always restless, would head over to Massey to work as a bartender at the local bar on weekends. After closing up, he’d drive to the OPP station down the road to babysit the drunks in the drunk tank. Every other Saturday, we’d spend our day picking up garbage around Massey since there wasn’t any local collection service. Also on Saturday nights for excitement, it was a tradition for our family, along with most of Massey, to head to the dump and watch the black bears.
It’s funny-I don’t really recall the provincial park, but I do remember the waterfall. When you live in a place like that, it becomes so familiar that you don’t even think to notice what it’s called, especially when you’re just seven years old.
Enjoy your journey across Canada! Nowadays, I’m out in Southern Alberta, where I get to appreciate the beauty of the mountains regularly.

[@algee8228]

Thanks! We were just there for a nice day trip yesterday. Hoping to do the same as you in ~2 years when I pull the plug. Hope you keep up with the videos, this was a nice format and informative.

[@FindYourAdventure-wc3cx]

I have been recording video, shooting photos - but since we're on the road - with fairly short stays - haven't had time to edit anything! It might have to wait until we're home...