Benefits of Recreation:

 Any activity that takes your mind, body and soul out of a required work mode, and allows you to feel a sense of satisfaction, peace and pleasure can be a recreational experience. While encouraging activity that is socially beneficial, economically sound and fosters a sense of community, the Parks and Recreation Department works diligently to improve your recreational experience how you see fit.

 Working under the guidance of the Parks Recreation and Trails Advisory Committee the design of this website will allow you to access many vantage points, natural assets, programs, and services that are available in all three hamlets of the Township of Lake of Bays, and within the defined boundaries, policies and bylaws set out for your safety and the preservation of our assets, we encourage you to create your own version of a recreational experience, to be enjoyed by yourself, or whomever you choose. For further information please review our Parks Master Plan (110pgs/795KB).

Perhaps it is a nature walk along our beautiful Oxtongue Rapids, or a quiet afternoon painting the scenery at Solitaire Lake we encourage our residents to explore, enrich and enjoy your experience.

 By clicking on many of our access points, identified on our maps in the web site, you will learn about assets, you may not know about, or perhaps have not visited in years, decades.  Check out Paint Lake Walking Trail Grassmere Park, or take your dog for a nature walk along Blue Lake. 

 Even now, as you sit at your computer, mouse in hand, you are experiencing recreation. Your mind may be wandering ahead to the experience you may enjoy, or what you will bring on your trip.  Your half way there, and we cannot encourage you enough to begin your journey on our web site to find what you are looking for.

 Welcome to the Lake of Bays, and welcome to your recreational experience. May your mind think freely as you plan your next adventure.

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