Canoeing Algonquin Park

The Friends of Algonquin Park, a non-profit Canadian registered charity for those passionate about Algonquin Park, is pleased to announce the republishing of Canoeing Algonquin Park by Donald L. Lloyd.

This 350-page softcover book, original published in 2000, with six updates and reprintings is available again. This classic book combines canoe tripping advice, maps, scenic sketches, drawings of park flora and fauna, and historical notes.

Don Lloyd (1932-2013) first started paddling in Algonquin Park in 1945 and paddled many of Algonquin Park's lakes in over the next sixty years. Don infused his knowledge and love of Algonquin Park into this classic trip planning book creating a fine bedside or campsite read. Use it to plan, or dream about, your next Algonquin Park canoe trip.

Containing 37 maps, 60 landscape sketches, and more than 200 flora and fauna drawings, this book is for the novice with their first portage before them, or for experienced trippers who will find these pages resonate with love and respect for Algonquin Park. A great companion to the official Canoe Routes Map of Algonquin Provincial Park, Canoeing Algonquin Park "remains the best and most complete [backcountry] canoeing guide to Algonquin Park." Don Lloyd's 'trip tips' are suggestions that should make your canoe tripping easier and more enjoyable. They are the result of experience gained from canoe tripping with many skilled companions.

"My hope", said Don Lloyd, "is that readers will be enticed into canoeing Algonquin Park and experience some of the pleasure that I have had in doing so. Perhaps some will even look at a sketch and say, 'I’ve been there' or 'I want to see that place.' Good tripping to you all."