Site Details
Closest Access Point: Kiosk (Access #29)
Distance to Access Point: ~45 KM (2 – 2.5 full days, or more!)
Difficulty of Travel From Access Point: Hard (long, difficult portages, low water potential)
Maintenance Level: Regular
Date Visited: May, 2023
Map courtesy of Maps by Jeff
This is a small, portage adjacent campsite about 3/4 of the way along the Allen’s Rapids portage if you’re going downstream. It’s a nice little clearing beside the river, but it doesn’t offer a very large footprint. The tent pad is on one side of the portage trail and the fire pit is on the other. Neither takes up a ton of room. On the plus side, the tent spot is nice and level. On the negative side, you’re going to have people walking right past your front door if you stay here for any length of time.
Access to the water for filtering and cooking is easy. It’s an slight grade from the pit area to the river. The view of the rapids is quite pretty. As it is in the middle of a portage, don’t expect to paddle away from this site. Either direction, you’re going to be starting your day with a hike.
Are there better spots nearby? Not really. The closest site downstream is about a kilometer away and, TBH, I didn’t bother getting out to check as we passed. Further along the Graham’s Rapids site is small and tucked away up from the water, and even further along you get to the High Falls sites. One of those sites is objectively awful, the second (and further away of the two) isn’t terrible, but it’s not spectacular either. Going upstream, I quite liked the Browse Creek junction site at Stewart’s Dam, but it’s not head and shoulders above this one.
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