Nature & Discovery.
Oxtongue River-Ragged Falls Provincial Park is a 507-hectare waterway park established in 1985, immediately east of the Oxtongue Lake hamlet, where Ragged Falls drops 25 m over 200 m of bedrock. The park is operated under Arrowhead PP administration and permits canoeing, fishing, hiking, hunting, and snowshoeing — day-use only.
Across Highway 35 from the active recreation area, the former Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre on St.
Nora Lake was Ontario's first outdoor education centre, opened in 1921 and closed in 2004.
The brief.
The Frost Centre name carries two meanings here, and they sit on opposite sides of Highway 35. The closed 1921–2004 educational facility on St.
Nora Lake is a heritage site, not a public visitor centre today. The active Frost Centre canoe-route management area — 26,500 ha of Crown land with 60+ shield lakes — is what's open and used.
Birding is shield-species heavy: common loon and common merganser on the lakes, raptors and warblers through the mixed-hardwood forest and wetlands. Day-use at Oxtongue River-Ragged Falls runs May 8 – October 18, 2026; the Frost Centre canoe-route interior is reachable year-round through HHWT permits.
2. places.
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Frost Centre canoe-route management area
26,500 ha of mixed-hardwood shield forest, wetlands, and 60+ shield lakes — the working interpretive landscape; the closed Leslie M. Frost Natural Resources Centre (1921–2004) sits across the highway and is not a public visitor site today.
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Oxtongue River-Ragged Falls Provincial Park
507 ha waterway park established 1985, immediately east of the Oxtongue Lake hamlet; Ragged Falls drops 25 m over 200 m of bedrock.
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Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.