Main (home) - Spectacle Lakes / Bear & Burnetts Mtns. Recreation Trails

        Trail Information & Guide (Trails)

• Trail Use — guide on type of recreational use permitted for each trail. Trail Guide Chart— PDF/print, image JPG.
  
  
• Quick Virtual Tour — slideshow
  
  
• Self-directed Virtual Hike — walk trails from your easy chair.
  
  
• Month-Day Calendars — 2016 PDF/print & image PNG, 2017 PDF/print & image PNG, 2018 PDF/print & image PNG, 2019 PDF/print & image PNG.

        Maps

• A variety of maps, including trail map in various formats, interactive location maps, and imagery map with geographic features labelled.

• Trail Maps — for download (JPG & high resolution PNG) or print (PDF: tabloid-size & 2-page letter-size).
  
  
• Imagery View — interactive & static (with feature lables)
  
  
• Road Map — interactive
  
  
• Self-directed Virtual Hike — walk trails from your easy chair.

        Photo Gallery (Photos)

• Selected photographs highlighting features and activities on trail network over four seasons. Organized by year from 2000.

        Self-directed Virtual Hike (Virtual Hike)

• An useful tool to plan the route(s) for your next hike out on the trails. Walk the trails from your easy chair.

        Quick Virutal Tour (Virtual Tour)

• A slidelshow sampling the views and activities on the trail network through four seasons.

        FAQs — Frequently Asked Questions

• Answers to commonly asked questions.

        Notice Board (Notices)

• Posting of important and time-sensitive information, advisories and notices.

        Feedback

• A convenient on-line e-mail form to ask a question, provide comments or report a problem.

        External Links (Links)

• To plan an extended visit to the Madawaska region information and leads on other trails, meals, accommodations, activities, retail outlets, visitor information centres, etc.
  
  
• Where to Sleep
  
  
• Where to Eat
  
  
• Recreation Trails
  
  
• Activities / Events
  
  
• Parks — Provincial & Municipal
  
  
• Services
  
  
• Other

        Testimonials

• Testimonials and comments from users of the 50 km SLBM Trails network.

        Ancillary Information (Gems)

• Ancillary and historical information that may be useful.

• Follow That Moose (PDF)
  
  
• Historic Roots of Spectacle Lake Lodge (PDF)
  
  
• Wolfsden Lake Renamed Spectacle Lakes (PDF)
  
  
• Spectacle Lake Mine (abandoned) (PDF)
  
  
• Plexman Mine (abandoned) (PDF)
  
  
• Proposed A2A Trail (PDF)
  
  
• Wilno Tavern Restaurant (history note) (PDF)
  
  
• Calendar of Natural Events – Algonquin Region (quick guide) (PDF)
  
  
• Climate Normals – Madawaska Region (graphic chart deck) (PDF)
  
  
• Black-flies – All You Wanted to Know...and More (PDF)
  
  
• Why Do Leaves Change Colour In The Autumn? (PDF)
  
  
• Full Moons of 2021 ~ Canada (PDF)
  
  
• Full Moons of 2022 ~ Canada (PDF)
  
  
• What's With Winter (PDF)
  
  
• Full Moons of 2023 ~ Canada (PDF)
  
  
• Full Moons of 2024 ~ Canada (PDF)
  
  
• Groundhog Day ~ Origins & Lore in North America (PDF)

        Info Bulletins

• Information resources that may be useful for a participant to safely use and enjoy the recreation trails.

• Getting in Shape
  
  
• Hike Equipment for the Trail
  
  
• Summer Hike Survival
  
  
• Dehydration — Symptons & Treatment

        Weather

• Real-time weather observation and forecasts streamed from Environment Canada and The Weather Network (Canada) for Barry's Bay, South Algonquin, Bancroft, Pembroke, Renfrew and Ottawa.

        What's New

• A bulletin board announcing what new information, features or revisons have been added to this website.

        About (MT Group & SLBM Trails)

• Background information.

        Social Media (MT Group & SLBM Trails)

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        Website Technical Compliance

• Statement of website technical specification compliance and use recommendations.