Ontario will soon be announcing the creation of a second new provincial park with backcountry camping availability, something experts hope will add new protected land rather than repurpose already conserved properties.
Few details have been publicly released about the second provincial park, which the government committed to in both the 2022 and 2023 budget., the province said the park would offer “four-season facilities” and add 250 campsites to the Ontario Parks system.Piccini told CTV News Toronto this week it will “definitively” involve backcountry camping. He hinted over the weekend that an announcement could come as early as next month.
The idea, Piccini told CTV News Toronto earlier this week, would be to integrate the land to provide further recreational opportunities close to the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. The Oak Ridges Moraine, however, is generally considered protected from development—although last year the province re-designated some lands within the area as suitable for residential development as part of its pledge to build 1.5 million homes.
“It’s in a traditional urbanized setting,” he said, adding it will be the closest provincial park to the Greater Toronto Area . “It’s three kilometres from the Town of Uxbridge, so we are talking very close. You can walk to it from the town.” The federal government is currently reviewing applications to create multiple urban national parks, including one in Windsor, Ont. The goal of those parks, according to Parks Canada, is to conserve and restore nature within cities.
The urban park near Uxbridge, which officials say could take up to two years to officially open, is the first operational provincial park to open in 40 years.
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