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PoorSSJ

02/07/2012 06:21PM

I haven't been to Quetico for almost 20 years, I am planning a trip there this summer, and have few questions.
I just picked up a couple of McKenzie maps, and they show campsites, stating they have fire grates and wilderness latrines, like the BWCA. Is this true? Can you only camp at sites so equipped?

Thanks

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bojibob

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02/07/2012 06:45PM

Ha! No the Quetico is free of grates and latrines. You may camp anywhere you wish in the Quetico... except on a portage please :-)

"One inch on the map ~ is not one inch on the ground"

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PoorSSJ

02/07/2012 07:37PM

Thats the news I was hoping for! Thanks.

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fishguts

02/07/2012 08:54PM

Ya! stay off the portages....you all may think this is stupid but we ran into an empty camp on McAree in 2008.....right across the Brewer's Rapids Portage....wierd...

fishguts

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snakecharmer

02/08/2012 05:42AM

BYOG :)

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after"
~ Henry David Thoreau

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billconner

02/08/2012 08:39AM

There are indeed quite a few sites on portages in the Q. I really do not like portaging through a group preparing breakfast but it has happened.

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Chicken

02/08/2012 09:36AM

Not to mention campsite like the one on Louisa Falls trail, I felt bad checking out the falls and walking through someones camp. I guess you have to expect/accept it if you choose a camp like this.

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PoorSSJ

02/08/2012 11:43AM

I stayed at that louisa falls site once, but we came in late in the day and didn't have any visitors.

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billconner

02/08/2012 12:07PM

My sons liked it when young. One group of three young women came to bath in Devil's bathtub in the early evening. Went right to bras and panties before hopping in. Some inconvenience.

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jcavenagh

02/28/2012 09:17PM

quote Chicken: "Not to mention campsite like the one on Louisa Falls trail, I felt bad checking out the falls and walking through someones camp. I guess you have to expect/accept it if you choose a camp like this."
I was told that the park management asks that folks not camp at that site. In 2010, my son and I walked through a fairly large group camped there. That site is really beaten down!

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OldGreyGoose

02/29/2012 03:20PM

There are some fire pits in Quetico which have grills that someone left behind. In the Beaverhouse/Quetico area, I think they were left by First Nation folks. I have never seen a latrine in the Q, except at the old ranger station at King Point. Be careful using McKenzie or any map for campsite locations -- they (and portages) often are incorrectly marked, or have moved. --Goose

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