Bon Echo Provincial Park

Bon Echo Provincial Park is a provincial park in eastern Ontario best known for Mazinaw Rock, a large cliff on Mazinaw Lake with a major collection of Indigenous pictographs. The rock is a landmark in the park and a focal point for recreation and interpretation.

The park’s main attraction is Mazinaw Rock, a cliff rising about 100 metres above the lake that bears more than 260 rock paintings. Visitors use boat and canoe access to view the pictographs, and the park also provides trails, cliff-top viewpoints, swimming, and camping facilities.

The site has long been significant to local Indigenous peoples because of the pictographs on Mazinaw Rock. In the 20th century the area was set aside and developed for public recreation and cultural interpretation under provincial park management.

The park sits on Mazinaw Lake in eastern Ontario within Hastings County/Addington Highlands countryside. It is accessed by local roads from nearby small towns and is managed as a provincial recreation and conservation area.

• Mazinaw Rock pictographs: The cliff contains over 260 Indigenous pictographs and rises roughly 100 metres above the lake, making boat views the primary viewpoint for the paintings.
• Camping and boat access: The park offers staffed campgrounds and backcountry sites; many visitors combine camping with canoeing or boat trips to the cliff base.

What to See #

• Mazinaw Rock and pictographs: Mazinaw Rock, a prominent granite/cliff face rising about 100 metres above Mazinaw Lake and painted with more than 260 Indigenous pictographs.
• Mazinaw Lake and boat access: Mazinaw Lake shoreline and boat-access points used for canoeing, boat tours and to view the cliff paintings from the water.
• Campgrounds and trail network: Campgrounds, backcountry campsites and a network of day hikes and cliff-top viewpoints including short interpretive trails.