Board the coach in downtown Toronto on Friday morning. We drop you at the gate of Four Corners by noon and collect you on Sunday afternoon. In between you sleep in a safari tent or a tiny home on a real mattress, four kilometres from Algonquin's east gate, and you never touch a steering wheel.
Pick your weekend below. This books the bus only. The tent is a separate booking with Four Corners, and there is no bundled fee and no markup on either side.
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We are running this one. The seats are not loaded into the booking system yet, so there is nothing to click. Leave your email and you will hear the moment it opens, which is usually before it goes anywhere else.
Cancel 14 or more days before you go and you get 90% back.
Nobody leads the day. The bus drops you off, you do what you like with the time, and you meet it again where it left you.
Flat and short, on even ground, with no climbing and no rush. This is a walk rather than a hike, and you set the pace.
Glamping is camping with the hard parts taken out. At Four Corners that means a roomy safari tent already pitched and waiting, with a proper bed, a real mattress, fresh linens and a private deck. There is no tent to set up, no air mattress to inflate and no tarp to fight with in the rain.
You fall asleep to loons on the water and wake to mist over the trees, and you do it on a real bed under solid canvas, a short walk from hot showers and flushing toilets.
The property is 90 acres, off-grid, on Highway 60 in Whitney right by Algonquin's east gate. Safari tents, bell tents and tiny homes, all fully erected and weather-tight, an award-winning comfort station with modern showers, and the Quartermaster Shack if you turn up without gear.
It is also a low light-pollution property, which is a technical way of saying you can see the stars. On a clear night the Milky Way runs right across the sky. Bring a blanket, sit by the fire and watch for shooting stars. It is the best argument for staying the night rather than driving home.
All the wilderness. None of the heavy lifting.
One stop, at the property gate, and you are there for the weekend.
We pick you up
Just north of Yonge and Bloor subway station. Come up the Asquith exit and look for the coach. Get there fifteen minutes early.
We pick you up
Highway 400 at Major Mackenzie Drive, with free parking. Useful if you are north of the city and would rather not come downtown first.
A 90-acre off-grid dark-sky property on Highway 60 in Whitney, about four kilometres from Algonquin's east gate. Safari tents, bell tents and tiny homes with real beds and bedding, an award-winning comfort station with clean modern showers and flushing toilets, and gear rental if you arrive empty-handed.
Good to know:
Facilities: Award-winning comfort station with modern showers and flushing toilets, Private decks and stone fire pits, Gear rental at the Quartermaster Shack
Note: Four Corners is a separate business and a separate booking. Rates start from $110 a night and the rate is per unit, so it splits between two.
We drop you back
The bus calls at both pickup points on the way back, so you get off where you got on.
This is our estimated return time, not a guarantee. Traffic can change it and some trips do run late, so please leave yourself some room afterwards rather than booking something tight against it.
The bed and the bedding are there. Everything else is up to you.
Parkbus handles the round trip and Four Corners handles the stay. They are two separate bookings on purpose: no bundled fee, no markup, and you can see exactly what each half costs.
Book the tent first, or at the same time. Weekends do sell out, and a bus seat with nowhere to sleep is worse than no bus seat at all.
Tent availability changes constantly and it is their inventory, not ours. Always check the Four Corners website for the most accurate, up-to-date availability and rates.
Parkbus seats are limited too, so it is worth booking both early rather than one and then the other.
Four Corners runs its own daily shuttle to the Highway 60 trails, lakes and outfitters, so you can get into Algonquin properly during the weekend.
The old rail trail also runs through Whitney if you would rather walk or ride straight out of the property.
Weekends run from late June into October, each one Friday to Sunday with two nights in between. Tent availability at Four Corners is the thing that goes first, so check both.
Placeholder dates · the real ones come from our booking system
We're Canada's outdoor bus service. Since 2010 we've taken more than 300,000 people to parks and trails without a car. You bring a bag. We handle everything else.
The tent is already up and waiting, with a proper bed, a real mattress, fresh linens and a private deck. No tarp to wrestle with in the rain.
Not at a highway junction with a bag and a phone. The coach pulls into the property, and it collects you from the same spot on Sunday.
Parkbus handles the round trip and Four Corners handles the stay. You book them separately and add them up. There is no bundled fee on either side.
Four Corners runs its own daily shuttle to the Highway 60 trails, lakes and outfitters, so a weekend without a car is not a weekend stuck at the campsite.
★★★★★ 4.6/5.0 on Google
“Fantastic glamping experience! Sites are private and well kept, including stone fire pits and solar powered above-ground tents. The comfort station adds to the hospitality with clean, newer, modern style washrooms and showers. Hosts were extremely accommodating!”Steve G. · Google Review
This is a great service if you don't have a vehicle or just don't want to drive. I'm so happy to have discovered this. There will definitely be more Parkbus trips in my future!James Taylor Wilson · Happy Parkbus customer
Speaking from someone who doesn't drive. This is a must!! I highly recommend this!Linda Ann · Facebook · Jun 2024
Factor in the cost of gas, parking and renting a car, it's a lot cheaper than taking a personal vehicle.Toronto Star
Parkbus is a great option for nature lovers, whether it's a day trip or overnight camping getaway.The Globe and Mail
Cancel more than 14 days before departure and you get a 90% refund, with 10% withheld for payment processing. Inside 14 days refunds are not available, except for a medical emergency in the 48 hours before departure, which needs a signed doctor’s note within 14 days of the missed trip and returns 50%. Tickets are transferable: you can change the passenger name up to 48 hours before departure.
If Parkbus cancels a trip, you get a full refund. We decide no later than 48 hours before departure and only on confirmed conditions: the park closed or the park authority asking us to stand down, an evacuation order or alert, an area restriction order, the highway closed, or the trip judged unsafe to run. A forecast is not one of those things, and trips run rain or shine.
Book the seat, book the tent, and show up at the downtown stop on Friday with a bag.
Not quite the right fit? These all leave from the same spot downtown.
