| Killarney Provincial Park | |
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 View overlooking Killarney Lake from The Crack trail terminus | |
  Location of the park in Ontario | |
| Location | Sudbury District, Northeastern Ontario, Canada |
| Nearest city | Sudbury, Ontario |
| Coordinates | 46°07′00″N 81°25′00″W / 46.11667°N 81.41667°W |
| Area | 493.25 km2 (190.44 sq mi) |
| Established | 1964 |
| Visitors | 207,820 (in 2022[2]) |
| Governing body | Ontario Parks |
| Website | https://www.ontarioparks.ca/park/killarney |
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Killarney Provincial Park is a provincial park in central Ontario, Canada, located approximately 90 km (56 mi) southwest of downtown Sudbury, Ontario.
The park contains just one campground at the George Lake entrance as it is primarily a wilderness park. There are few facilities in order to allow visitors a chance to experience the solitude and beauty of its undisturbed natural setting. It has a number of hiking trails and canoe-in back-country camping. The canoe routes include well maintained portages between lakes. The campground includes six heated yurts which have electric lighting, a power outlet, a propane barbecue and bunk beds.[3]
Situated on the north shore of Georgian Bay in the municipality of Killarney, the park straddles the La Cloche range, large rounded white quartzite hills that dominate the landscape. The white peaks and cliffs contrast with the pine and hardwood forests and the boggy lowlands that surround the park's many lakes.
Quartzite is weather-resistant and contains few nutrient-bearing minerals. Soils, where present, tend to be shallow and infertile. Very stony sandy loam is the most common soil texture reported. Podzol profile development is usual in well-drained situations. Mineral-rich rock types such as diabase and limestone occur locally and the soils that have developed over them support some of the park's more luxuriant vegetation.
The park lies within the Eastern forest-boreal transition ecoregion, so there is a wide variety of plant life.[4] The park is home to moose, deer, black bears, wolves, lynx, bobcats, martens, and beavers along with over 20 species of reptiles and amphibians. Over 100 species of birds breed, nest or rest within park boundaries.
- ^ UNEP-WCMC. "Protected Area Profile for Killarney Provincial Park". World Database on Protected Areas. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ^ Parks, Ontario. "Ontario_Parks-Visitation-Statistics 2022 - Ministries". data.ontario.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
- ^ "Roofed Accommodation - Killarney - Yurts". Ontario Parks.
- ^ Olson, D. M, E. Dinerstein; et al. (2001). "Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth". BioScience. 51 (11): 933–938. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2.
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