Boyne Valley Provincial Park is a natural environment park north of Orangeville and east of Shelburne. Ontario Parks lists the park at 431 hectares, established in 1985.
The park is non-operating and has no facilities except hiking trails, so it is best planned as a trail and river-valley outing rather than a campground visit.
Ontario Parks describes the Boyne River cutting through the southern heartland of the province about an hours drive north of Toronto. Flowing east, the river slices through the Orangeville and Singhampton moraines.
The park has a variety of natural communities, including hardwood forest, open fields, bottomland, and swamp. Ontario Parks also notes that reforestation has replenished forests previously felled by loggers, which gives the landscape a recovery story.
For visitors, the practical draw is hiking. Ontario Parks says the Bruce Trail gives access to an excellent lookout in the northern part of the park. Fishing is permitted, but hunting is not.
Plan around hiking, Bruce Trail access, lookout views, Boyne River scenery, moraine landscape interpretation, fishing where permitted, forest and swamp observation, and a short non-operating park visit north of Orangeville.
Ontario Parks places the park about 20 kilometres north of Orangeville, four kilometres east of Shelburne, north of Highways 89 and 10, and one kilometre north on Prince of Wales Road. Confirm trail access, parking, fishing rules, no-hunting rules, no-facility expectations, alerts, and park rules through the official Ontario Parks source.
Non-operating park in Ontario Parks locator.
