Rushing River Provincial Park is a recreational park near Kenora and Longbow Lake, with year-round day use, seasonal camping, roofed accommodation, rapids, beaches, hiking, paddling, and winter skiing. Ontario Parks lists the park at 340 hectares, established in 1958.
The park has a strong Northwestern Ontario road-trip identity. It is reachable from Kenora and is also listed by Ontario Parks as about a 2.5 hour drive from Winnipeg, making it useful for Manitoba-to-Ontario camping trips.
Ontario Parks highlights the Rushing River cascading over glacier-gouged rock in rapids while being passable by canoe elsewhere. It also describes the park as a favourite family camping destination with beaches, playgrounds, interpretive programs, hiking trails, and lots of exploring.
For paddlers, the park is a gateway to Eagle-Dogtooth Provincial Park's five canoe routes. In winter, Ontario Parks lists 18 km of groomed cross-country ski trails.
That gives Rushing River a helpful balance: active scenery around the rapids, family campground facilities, and a larger canoe-country connection nearby.
Plan around car camping, group camping, roofed accommodation, beaches, swimming when conditions allow, canoeing, fishing, hiking, interpretive programs, playground time, exploring the rapids, Eagle-Dogtooth canoe route planning, cross-country skiing, and winter day use.
Ontario Parks lists Rushing River day use and winter availability from January 1 to December 31, 2026, with camping and roofed accommodation from May 15 to October 13, 2026. Confirm reservations, roofed accommodation availability, water conditions, canoe route details, ski grooming, alerts, facility hours, and park rules through the official Ontario Parks source before travelling.
