St. Raphael Provincial Park is a 90,521 hectare waterway park established in 2003. Ontario Parks explains that, as a waterway class park, it includes various watercourses and bordering areas that range from 25 metres to more than 2,000 metres wide.
The official page lists several larger lakes included entirely within the park: Churchill Lake, De Lesseps Lake, Hooker Lake, Lawson Lake, Minchin Lake, Miniss Lake, St. Raphael Lake, and Vincent Lake.
St. Raphael is a remote waterway-scale planning page for paddlers, anglers, and backcountry travellers. Its size and lake list make it useful for route research, but the official description also points to many traditional outdoor uses.
Ontario Parks lists hunting, fishing, wildlife viewing, swimming, nature appreciation, backcountry canoeing and camping, and berry and mushroom picking. Those activities should be planned with current regulations, permits, and local conditions in mind.
Because the park follows watercourses and adjacent corridors, map accuracy matters. Visitors need to know where the park boundaries, lakes, routes, camps, and access points are before building an itinerary.
The park's size makes conservative daily distances and backup camps especially important for remote groups in bad weather.
Plan around backcountry canoeing, camping, fishing, hunting where permitted, wildlife viewing, swimming, nature appreciation, berry and mushroom picking where allowed, lake-to-lake route planning, and remote travel preparation.
Confirm permits, access, maps, camping rules, fishing and hunting regulations, water levels, weather, alerts, communications, food safety, and emergency planning through Ontario Parks.
Non-operating park in Ontario Parks locator.
