Foy Property Provincial Park is a gated non-operating recreational park on Round Lake, directly across from Bonnechere Provincial Park. Ontario Parks lists the broader park record at 147.3 hectares, established in 1985.
The official page says the 48 hectare non-operating park is gated. Camping is not allowed, but backcountry hiking and shoreline activities such as swimming and picnicking are permitted.
Foy combines shoreline, forest, and glacial history. Ontario Parks describes high granite and quartz upland covered in old White Pine, Oak, Aspen, Birch, and dark groves of Eastern Hemlock.
The beach is made of fine sand from the delta of a great spillway that drained glacial meltwater from the Algonquin Highlands. Ontario Parks also notes evidence of a long-gone ancient lake etched and deposited along the shoreline.
The planning relationship with Bonnechere is important. Foy sits directly across Round Lake from Bonnechere Provincial Park, and Ontario Parks encourages visitors to contact the Park Superintendent at Bonnechere Provincial Park for information before visiting.
That contact note is unusually direct, so it belongs in the planning flow before anyone assumes the gated property is open for casual use.
Plan around backcountry hiking, shoreline swimming where conditions allow, picnicking, Round Lake views, old pine and hemlock forest context, glacial shoreline learning, and pairing the visit with nearby Bonnechere services.
Confirm gated access, maps, contact guidance through Bonnechere, no-camping rules, permitted shoreline activities, swimming conditions, alerts, seasonal conditions, parking, and park rules through the official Ontario Parks source before travelling.
Non-operating park in Ontario Parks locator.
