Arowhon Pines
LIVING & DESIGN
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Leafing through bounty → Algonquin
in the fall offers stunning vistas, fresh air, plenty of exercise, fantastic food… and no bugs Story Gordon Bowness
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hey greet you upon arrival
more clichés. It’s too easy to wax
hike squeezed in the middle?
Killarney confirmed that, while
without fail, saluting like
poetic about Algonquin; the pur-
And it’s too late to curry favour
both resorts treat their visitors
Mounties in their scar-
ple prose flows freely when walk-
with that friend of a friend who
extremely well, they offer very
let uniforms. The maple trees at
ing on a red-leaf carpet through a
owns a cottage in the Muskokas.
different experiences.
the western gate of Algonquin
forest cathedral. Oops. Sorry.)
The elegant solution is to stay for
Arowhon Pines is a 50-room
Park always blaze red at the end of
Algonquin in the fall is a won-
a couple of nights in one of the
resort dating back to the 1930s.
September. It’s a promise of more
der. You can do it as a day trip,
three private lodges in the park:
It has a dining room that must
autumnal marvels to come as you
but who wants to spend seven-
Arowhon Pines, Killarney Lodge
be experienced, a three-storey-
explore Ontario’s oldest, most vis-
plus hours in a car, especially
and Bartlett Lodge.
high
ited park. (And I promise to avoid
with a big lunch and vigorous
September 2011
A recent trip to Arowhon and
hexagonal
log
structure
built around a towering cen-