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Huntsville

Welcome to Huntsville Huntsville is the last real town on Highway 11 before North Bay and is also the last major centre in Muskoka cottage country. Huntsville is an important cottage and camping area, boosted by two fancy resorts, close access to Arrowhead and Oxtongue Lake Provincial Parks, and the busiest access point to Algonquin Provincial Park.

Painter Tom Thomson is honoured with a sculpture in Huntsville Huntsville is very cute, there’s a nice little windy downtown (that reminds me a bit of Kirkland Lake, but nicer) that skirts around the lake, and the town is very much cottage country magnet. Huntsville is one of Ontario's most popular cottaging areas - more just an indication of my personal interests. I'm trying to think of what I've done in Huntsville, other than eat and get ready for Algonquin Algonquin Provincial Park. I once bought a flask though at the Northern General Store on the main drag right across from the Pita Pit. Another time I had an extra pickles veggie pita too. I've been to the bank. I got lost trying to find the Swiss Chalet. I think that pretty much sums up my activities in Huntsville. But there is much more to do than that.

Huntsville hosts an annual arts festival. The town is home the Muskoka Museum, an art gallery, and the new Algonquin Arts Theatre which produces plays during cottage season. There is also an annual book reading festival, the firefly festival in July, and a summer car show.

A young Shania Twain cut her teeth at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville Founded in 1869 as an agricultural post, Huntsville today is a town of 18 000 focused on tourism, cottaging, and a bit of manufacturing. Algonquin Provincial Park is about 60 kilometres east and that means that there are numerous lodges, inns, motels, and outfitters in and outside of the city. The Wolf Den Bunkhouse, about 30 minutes east in Dwight, is a great little hostel with cottages as well as single rooms in a neat log house. In addition to a Pita Pit, Huntsville has a Harvey’s an East Side Mario's, a Swiss Chalet, and a movie theatre.

Huntsville also has two top notch resorts – Hidden Valley and Deerhurst, the latter being where Shania Twain got her start. There is train (not twain) and bus access from the ONTC, and Huntsville is the proud owner of a one-route municipal bus system.

Please feel free to add a comment below, or email me at info (at) highway 11 (dot) ca. Send photos and I will add them to those below. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page for a few Huntsville photos.)

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Huntsville Arts Festival

Muskoka Heritage Place

Algonquin Provincial Park

Wolf Den Bunkhouse

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Visitor Comments

— Caitlin from Toronto/Burk's Falls on 2009-07-02 05:05:07

Dear Sir. While Huntsville may not be the unique, quintessential North Ontario town, it does have a little charm and boasts more than just American fast food chains. Though the Pasta House may have gone out of business a few years back, the replacement Cottage Grill suffices - and not to mention the little Northern Bakery Co. which offers sweet little soups and sandwiches on the main street. And lets not forget the few lovely ice cream parlours, and the Fish N Chips joint on the river. It ain't New York, and it ain't no Kapuskasing neither, but it'll do us cottaging folk just fine, and it would do you well to notice some of these UNIQUE little places. strange you hadn't already.

— Editor from Ontario on 2010-01-06 02:03:28

Hadn't noticed your comment 'til now. I don't doubt that Huntsville is a great place to spent time relaxing away from home. I'll take some more notes next time I pass through. Thanks for visiting.

— Sarah from Hamilton on 2010-01-21 19:11:24

There's also a McDonalds. We go there for breakfast every year on our way up north.

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Highway 11, just outside Huntsville.	Huntsville is an excellent spot for viewing fall colours.	Deerhurst resort, in Huntsville.