Northern
Ontario
Thunder Bay
There are numerous sites for rock-climbing, ranging from top-roping and
bouldering at Centennial Park, Silver Harbour, The Climbers’ Cliffs,
and a dozen other sites close to town, to superb 100m multi-pitch climbing
at the Taj-Mah-Wall in Orient Bay and at Squaw Bay, and Claghorn, north
America’s best kept-secret in roadside granite crack climbing.
Ice-Climbing: Orient Bay, Thunder Bay Area, The Mid-West’s Best
Ice
Literally hundreds of roadside routes of most difficulties, running up to
100m in length, and the virtually guaranteed long season, make this the
best ice climbing in Ontario, and the entire mid-west.
Sudbury/North Bay/New Liskeard/Parry Sound (Toronto)
Numerous options exist for top-toping, and trad climbing up to 100m. Some
sport climbing exists on Manitoulin Island, near Spirit Rock. Paroi du Lac
Clair and Killarney Provincial Park are well known trad sites, and some
top-roping can be had there as well. Numerous other sites have also been
developed. Devil Rock on Lake Temiskaming near Haileybury offers the area’s
best multi-pitch trad and bolted climbing, and perhaps the best multi-pitch
adventure climbing in the province. Further south, Lake Rosseau and Mc Crea
and Miller Lakes near Parry Sound also offer good climbing, mainly on single
pitch trad and sport routes.
Ice Climbing: Lake Rosseau, Idole Verte, Parry Sound
Some good climbing is available in these areas, although winter conditions
can be surprisingly fickle.
