Welcome to Ontario Parks’ best kept secret! Inverhuron – popular for its sandy beach, dunes and glorious sunsets – is open for camping again. Once a favourite camping destination, for the past 29 years Inverhuron has been open for day use only. However, as of July 8th 2005, 162 private, well-treed campsites are available for reservation. 125 sites have electrical service; the convenient comfort stations have municipally-supplied water; the trails are improved and a large picnic shelter is available in the day-use area of the park. In addition to the spectacular beach and dunes, Inverhuron includes wetlands and a young hardwood forest. The diverse habitat nurtures rare plants and protects many woodland animals and birds. The park is also steeped in history. Aboriginal people roamed here for thousands of years. In the 1800s, a small town was located in what is now part of the provincial park. Future plans for Inverhuron include 88 more campsites, an amphitheatre and improvements to an existing boat launch. If you remember camping at Inverhuron as a child, you’ll want to rediscover this special place. If you’ve never been to Inverhuron, make sure it’s on your “must see” list this summer!
Another lovely, small park on gorgeous Lake Huron. We camped here on an August weekend in 2013 and really enjoyed how quiet the park felt because of its small size. There is only one hiking trail in the park so we won’t be coming here very often in the spring, but our plan was to spend most of our time at the beach, and we did. The beach is excellent – soft sand and shallow entrance to the lake. Our campsite was hard packed gravel, as are all of the other campsites we saw. This made for difficult pegging and a bit of dust, but was well worth it because the sites are very private. We probably had the most private site we’ve had in any park in recent years, and there seemed to be a number of other similar sites.
A few years ago a third section was opened. Like the other 2 loops the sites are large and private with trees between sites. The original 2 sections are Gunn Point( sites1-76), and Lime Kiln (101-186). The new section is Holmes Bay (sites201-278).
Really if the hum of the turbines of the Bruce Nuclear Plant isn't annoying enough the site of the Nuclear Plant right beside one beach should just be disturbing. Creepy seriously creepy.
My husband and I camped in Holmes Bay Campground for the first time...end of June/18. Private sites, clean washrooms, friendly helpful staff! Great trails for hiking/biking/exploring. Beautiful swimming area and beach. Lovely old settler cemetery to quietly visit. Plan to go back soon as we can!
Ontario Parks describes Iverhuron as Ontario’s best kept secret it is not a secret anymore. Its being ruined the best way to describe it is top heavy too many campsites for the size of the park. The garbage disposals and the shower facilities are not sufficient for the amount of people using the park. Gravel campsites are aggravating for tent campers. The worst feature of all is its next door neighbour the Bruce Nuclear Plant, depending on where your campsite is you might be listening to the monotonous continuous noise from the plant, after three days I packed up and left. Being this heavily used must have a big environmental impact on the place because aside from the seagulls in the lake the only animal life seemed to be people’s pets.
Its clean, it’s well maintained, staff is pleasant and the campers are not partiers so the place is calm. But if you’re more than a few hours drive away skip Iverhuron its nothing special.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed on June 19th, 2020
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Reviewed on June 19th, 2020
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed on June 19th, 2020
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed on June 19th, 2020
Nice recreational park but really crowded. Way too many campsites for the size of the park.