Visitors to The Cottages will find travel tips and information below under the following headings: Directions from Toronto, Driving Distance Comparison, Travel Tips, and for those coming by air, Information for Pilots.

Directions from Toronto

North on Hwy. 400 to Barrie (approx. 100 km)
North on Hwy. 400 and 69 to Hwy. 64 (approx. 235 km)
East on Hwy. 64 to 528 (approx. 18 km)
East on 528 to 528A (approx. 12 km)
South and then east on 528A to end (approx. 5 km)
Toronto to The Lodge: approx. 370 km

Driving Distance Comparison

People driving to the French River area for the first time often ask us to compare the distance to The Cottages at Pine Cove to the distances to other parts of Ontario's near-north vacation country. We have compiled a partial list of the approximate distances from Toronto to a selection of these areas using data taken from a Government of Ontario website. We started the list with the distance to The Cottages, and then listed the other locations in alphabetical order.

Toronto to The Cottages at Pine Cove: 370 kilometres (231 miles)

Toronto to Bancroft: 240 kilometres (150 miles)
Toronto to Huntsville: 215 kilometres (135 miles)
Toronto to Goderich: 225 kilometres (140 miles)
Toronto to Kingston: 260 kilometres (163 miles)
Toronto to North Bay: 345 kilometres (215 miles)
Toronto to Owen Sound: 190 kilometres (119 miles)
Toronto to Parry Sound: 225 kilometres (140 miles)
Toronto to Sudbury: 390 kilometres (244 miles)
Toronto to Tobermory: 300 kilometres (188 miles)

Travel Tips

Visit Ste. Marie Among the Hurons, a wonderfully reconstructed Jesuit missionary from the 1630s. It is located near Midland, Ontario, a short drive west off Hwy. 400.

Also pay a visit to The French River Trading Post on Hwy. 69 just north of the French River highway bridge. This is a lovely, rustic shop with high-quality items.

Note: When going through Nobel on Hwy. 69, just north of Parry Sound, do not speed! It is a 70 km/hr area and many speed tickets are given out there.

Information for Pilots

Any aviator arriving at The Lodge via float plane would be advised to land anywhere in the Wolsely Bay with a landing run parallel to and around 100yds from either shoreline, wind, wave, under-surface rocks, and the presence of surface craft being taken into careful account. It is unwise to land too close to a lee shore because the precipitous topography induces a pronounced down flow in the wind-pattern if the wind direction is more than about 30 degrees off the east/west orientation of the main bay. If a cross-wind is judged to be too hazardous to land or take-off, a 'cross-bay' approximately a half-mile east of The Lodge is roomy enough to permit landing in any wind condition. Upon taxiing to The Lodge, any size aircraft can be safely beached on either side of the dock complex although, for convenience, beaching to the east side of the dock is preferred. The coordinates for The Lodge are 46o 05.625 minutes North, 80o 13.833 minutes West.

Wheel equipped aircraft are welcome to use the turf runways at North Monetville Skypark (PX4 in the Canadian Flight Supplement) at 46 12N, 80 19W...about 22km by road due north of the Lodge. Of course, both Sudbury (CYSB) and North Bay (CYYB) airports are full-service aerodromes capable of handling the world's largest aircraft. These airports are around 100km by road northwest and northeast of The Lodge at Pine Cove respectively.

The Lodge and The Cottages at Pine Cove
Phone: 705-898-2500
Mailing Address:  The Lodge and The Cottages at Pine Cove
P.O. Box 91, Noelville, Ontario, Canada, P0M 2N0

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