Two provincial parks side by side on Lake Huron, about two hours northwest of Kitchener-Waterloo. Inverhuron is the beach, with water clear enough that people do a double take. MacGregor Point is the wildlife, with seven kilometres of coast and more than 200 kinds of bird. You camp; we carry you and your gear.
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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.
Inverhuron protects a wide stretch of sandy Lake Huron shoreline where the water runs clear and green enough that first timers look twice. It is shallow with a gentle drop off, which makes it good for wading, swimming and paddleboarding, and three campgrounds sit in mature forest a short walk back from the sand. Behind the beach, trails wind through dunes, wetland and old cedar. The beach faces due west over open water, and the sunsets are the reason people come back.
MacGregor Point, 25 minutes up the coast near Port Elgin, is the other kind of park. Seven kilometres of shoreline take in coastal marsh, silver maple swamp, fen and bog, all joined by trails. More than 200 kinds of bird have been recorded, and the park sits on a spring and autumn migration route that draws birders from across the province. There are carnivorous plants in the wetlands, and dwarf lake iris and spotted turtles if you are lucky.
MacGregor Point runs a full summer Discovery Program: guided shoreline walks, children's programming, evening campfire talks and live animal presentations.
Two parks, one coast, and somebody else driving.
They sit side by side on the Bruce County coast and they are not the same kind of day. Pick the one that sounds like your weekend, and book your campsite there.
Wide sand, clear shallow water and a gentle drop off. The three campgrounds, Lime Kiln, Holmes Bay and Gunn Point, are well separated treed sites on level ground, a short walk from the water, so you never have to drive to the beach once you are set up.
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Facilities: Comfort stations with flush toilets, showers and laundry, Electrical hookups at some sites, A camp cabin that sleeps five
Coastal wetland, cattail marsh, silver maple swamp, fen, bog and forest, joined up by well kept trails. It is one of the most ecologically varied parks in the region and it sits on a major migration route.
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Facilities: Three camping areas: Algonquin, Nipissing and Huron, Electric and non-electric sites, plus year-round yurts and cabins, Radio-free camping in Huron Campground
Standard camping kit, plus a swimsuit. Both parks have drinking water, showers and laundry on site.
The bus seat and the campsite are two separate bookings. We do not hold sites and cannot book one for you. Yours comes from Ontario Parks at reservations.ontarioparks.ca.
Ontario Parks opens reservations five months before your arrival date, at 7:00 AM Eastern. Both of these are among the busiest camping parks on Lake Huron and summer weekends go quickly, so set an alarm and book the morning the window opens. If you miss it, keep checking: cancellations turn up, especially in the last fortnight before a date.
Parkbus riders get 15% off camping gear rentals from Thames Valley Outfitters, a London outfitter who deliver to your door: tents, sleeping bags, pads, stoves, chairs, cookware, coolers and headlamps, in packages for two, four or six people.
Book your gear with them, and we load it onto the bus before we leave. Nothing to store and nothing to buy.
This is a summer weekend trip. Dates appear here when the season opens, and your campsite booking window with Ontario Parks opens five months before the date you want.
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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 tent. We handle everything with wheels.
Parkbus riders get 15% off camping gear rentals from Thames Valley Outfitters, who deliver to your door. We load it onto the bus before we leave.
Good for a group who would otherwise be coordinating three cars, and good for anyone who does not have one.
No Highway 21, no directions, no fuel stop. You arrive rested instead of arriving tired.
Inverhuron for the beach and the sunsets, MacGregor Point for the trails and the birds. They are 25 minutes apart.
★★★★★ 4.6/5.0 on Google
“Used this service for a weekend in Algonquin. These guys stuck to the schedule well and ambassadors checked everyone in at their pickups. Easy drop offs all across the park and across the city. Reasonably priced and no need to think about a rental car to get to the wilderness.”James Johnson · Happy Parkbus adventurer
Highly recommend them. The bus service is so useful for people who doesn’t want to drive and gives return facility. They were on time and bus facility was good too. Total worth the cost if you want to avoid hassle driving/parking.Sidhant Duggal · Facebook · Aug 2022
I’ve traveled with Parkbus a couple of times already. It’s easy, destinations are all great and staff is nice, polite and funny. Overall, I enjoy every trip and recommend Parkbus to everyone, especially if you don’t have a car but want to explore.Natalie Novosad · Google
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.
Bring a tent, or rent one and we will load it on the bus for you.
Not quite the right fit? These all leave from the same spot downtown.
