Michipicoten Provincial Park
Michipicoten Provincial Park is a park in Ontario, Canada, located at the mouth of the Michipicoten River. The park preserves the ruins of a French trading post that operated from the early 1700s until it was abandoned by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1904.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Derek Hatfield, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Magpie River.
Magpie River
River
Photo: Derek Hatfield, CC BY 2.0.
The Magpie River is a river in Algoma District, northeastern Ontario, Canada, The river empties into Michipicoten Bay on Lake Superior near the town of Wawa. The river drains an area of about 1,900 square kilometres.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wawa.
Wawa
Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wawa is a former mining town on a sparsely-populated section of the Trans-Canada Highway in Northern Ontario.
Michipicoten Provincial Park
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: provincial park in Ontario
- Categories: provincial park of Canada and recreation area
- Location: Algoma District, Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
47.92279° or 47° 55′ 22″ northLongitude
-84.83266° or 84° 49′ 58″ westElevation
194 metres (636 feet)Operator
Ontario ParksOpen location code
86VQW5F8+4WOpenStreetMap ID
way 745388007OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
6072758Wikidata ID
Q22502481
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Michipicoten Provincial Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Michipicoten Provincial Park”
- French: “parc provincial Michipicoten”
- French: “Parc provincial Michipicoten”
- Swedish: “Michipicoten Provincial Park”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Michipicoten River Village and Ranson Mine.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Driftwood Beach and Mission Lake.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Michipicoten Provincial Park”. Photo: Derek Hatfield, CC BY 2.0.