Partial reopening planned for northern Ontario provincial park devastated by summer storm
CBC
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks is aiming to reopen at least part of Samuel de Champlain Provincial Park in the spring.
Last summer a powerful storm hit the park, causing a downburst. The strong winds knocked over thousands of trees, and destroyed hundreds of trailers in the process. Some campers were injured when fallen trees crushed their tents and trailers, but no one was killed.
At the time Cameron Hockey, the manager of the Algonquin Zone of Ontario Parks, described the devastation like a “clear-cut forestry operation.”
Trees in the Jingwakoki Campground were completely flattened and most of the built infrastructure, including bathroom facilities, remain “beyond repair” according to the ministry.
Work started almost immediately to clear fallen trees and debris from the park, and recover campers’ personal belongings.
In an email to CBC News, Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks spokesperson Gary Wheeler said the province has invested $4.75 million so far to rebuild and reopen the park.
Wheeler said around 24 loads of saw logs and utility poles were removed during the first phase of forestry operations after the storm hit the park on June 21, 2025.
Another 200 transport trailer loads of wood chips have also been removed from the area.
Wheeler said Ontario Parks has worked with Forests Canada to plant 500 native trees in the area so far.
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