(photo by Bob: 2006-04-27 - explore) 

The intent of this page is to provide an index to the Nature Reserve Zones and Special Management Areas in Algonquin Park and to link to further information on this site, if available. The focus will be on the eastern and northern side of the Park.

The key documents with respect to these sites are the Algonquin Provincial Park Management Plan and Algonquin Park Management Plan Amendment. Another useful guide is A Nature Guide to Ontario by the Federation of Ontario Naturalists (now Ontario Nature). However, this latter reference is most useful for sites outside of the Park.

(For an interactive map of all of the natural zones of Algonquin Park see Interactive Map of Algonquin Park.)

Nature Reserve Zones in Algonquin Park

From the Algonquin Park Management Plan:

Nature Reserve Zones include any significant earth and life science features that require management distinct from that in adjacent zones.

Implicit in this statement is that these features require enhanced protection.

Special Management Areas in Algonquin Park

From the Algonquin Park Management Plan:

Provincially and regionally significant earth science sites have been designated Nature Reserve Zones to provide then with the highest form of protection. Larger assemblages, some regionally significant features, and small features of local significance are protected in Special Management Areas.

Achray Beaches/Deposits

Locally significant beach ridges, off-shore deposits.

Biggar Twp Gravelly Moraine

Regionally significant gravelly moraine.

Bonnechere Valley Outwash System

Regionally significant outwash system.

Booth Lake Delta

Regionally significant outwash delta.

Brent Fluted Till Plain

Regionally significant fluted till, drumlins.

Bronson-Straton Outwash Plain

Regionally significant outwash plain, meltwater channels.

Clemow Lake Drumlin Group

Regionally significant drumlins.

Coldspring Lake/Carl Wilson Complex

Regionally significant Kame esker complex.

Forbes Creek Meltwater Channel

Locally significant meltwater channel.

Grand Lake Boulder Pavement

Regionally significant boulder lag.

Grand Lake Tombolo

Locally significant tombolo.

Grassy Bay Kame Complex

Locally significant Kame-esker complex. (Protected within the Grassy Bay Mog nature reserve and the Burnt Island Wilderness Zone.)

Grosbeak Creek Outwash/Kame Terraces

Regionally significant ice contact material, eskers, kettle.

Hogan Lake Esker

Locally significant esker kame.

Lake Travers Outwash Plain

Regionally significant glaciofluvial landforms.

Lake Of Two Rivers Outwash Plain

Locally significant outwash plain.

Modern Fluvial Deltas (3)

Locally significant modern fluvial deposits.

North Rouge Creek Drumlins

Regionally significant drumlins, drumlinoidal features.

Notsolong Lake Esker

Locally significant large esker.

Oxtounge River Outwash Plain

Locally significant outwash plain.

Petawawa Terraces

Regionally significant erosional terraces.

Proulx Lake Outwash

Regionally significant outwash plain, Kame complex.

Radiant Lake Kame Terraces

Regionally significant Kame esker complex.

Sunfish Lake Moraininc Ridge

Locally significant small moraine.

White Partridge Lake Spillway

Locally significant outwash plain, meltwater channels.