Old Nippissing Road, Ontario [Archive]

R_Lefebvre

03-16-2011, 02:02 PM

So, something else I want to do this year is the Old Nippissing Road. Yorkie, I noticed you're also looking to do it. Have any plans yet?

4307

03-16-2011, 02:24 PM

Actually ya, there is a plan of sorts. I posted it in a Sontt events sub forum on our club board. It's called the Muskoka Loop Run. If you want detailed maps PM me.

xkid

03-16-2011, 07:15 PM

What is that road like?Could you post up a map?

4307

03-16-2011, 08:37 PM

http://www.nipissingroad.ca/

4307

03-16-2011, 08:43 PM

What is that road like?Could you post up a map?

use Google Map enter "Old Nippissing Rd, Perry Sound"

Yorkie

03-17-2011, 03:44 AM

So, something else I want to do this year is the Old Nippissing Road. Yorkie, I noticed you're also looking to do it. Have any plans yet?

Hey Rob,

Here is the thread for the run that our club (Southern Ontario Toyota Trucks) is putting together

http://www.sontt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1311&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

4307 has done all the research on the route, and done a fine job. We are talking about mid June and you're welcome to join us. I'm not sure how many are going yet.

zammer

03-17-2011, 09:56 AM

Yorkie... I noticed in you're link to the SOTT site that the 1st map shows taking the route just out of Rosseau up the old nip road along Bear Cave to just past Blair Lake and then up to ten mile lake. I have read that Nippising rd w from Seguin to ten mile lake is easily doable but that the portion from ten mile lake to where it would have linked up with Bear cave rd is definitly not doable by your avg 4x4. I don't have any personal experience with this but only from reasearching the area for a trip I plan to make with my kids this yr sometime.

R_Lefebvre

03-17-2011, 11:25 AM

Yeah, I don't know which section, but I've read elsewhere (probably on Advrider) that a section of the "road" that shows on the maps is really only passable in winter by snowmobile. It's a swamp otherwise.

Yorkie

03-17-2011, 06:28 PM

Yorkie... I noticed in you're link to the SOTT site that the 1st map shows taking the route just out of Rosseau up the old nip road along Bear Cave to just past Blair Lake and then up to ten mile lake. I have read that Nippising rd w from Seguin to ten mile lake is easily doable but that the portion from ten mile lake to where it would have linked up with Bear cave rd is definitly not doable by your avg 4x4. I don't have any personal experience with this but only from reasearching the area for a trip I plan to make with my kids this yr sometime.

Not sure to be honest. Nobody in our group has done the run. I had read (don't know where) that the whole thing was doable in any higher clearance vehicle such as a bog standard SUV.

Yeah, I don't know which section, but I've read elsewhere (probably on Advrider) that a section of the "road" that shows on the maps is really only passable in winter by snowmobile. It's a swamp otherwise.

I hadn't read this either.

Ryan, perhaps we should do a recon run before the big one? What do you think?

4307

03-17-2011, 06:35 PM

Interesting. I'm going to have to check that out.
I used Google Earth to follow the entire route to see if it's passable. That being said there are sections that were clouded and low resolution.
Our girl Shiny on the Sontt board is going to look at the GIS maps and software at her day job, hopefully better satellite images to get some better intell.
If a part of the route is impassable, I consider it part of the adventure. Stop, evaluate, and go from there.

Last season, on the way back from Ottawa via backroads, we traveled south from Bancroft down Old Hastings Rd. We did stop for some site seeing, even though we were pressed for time. It was a cool road. If Old Nippissing Rd from my research, is as good or better then Old Hastings, this trip will be a lot of fun.

Anyway, here is some of the pics from Old Hastings Rd....

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03462.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03486.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03484.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03481.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03480.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03478.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03467.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03464.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03463.jpg

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj70/4307R/Trips/DSC03469.jpg

xkid

03-17-2011, 07:14 PM

http://www.nipissingroad.ca/

Thanx:4x4:

R_Lefebvre

03-18-2011, 05:56 AM

I found some of the details on ADV:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=592539&highlight=nippissing

I'm not sure exactly where they are talking about.

4307, where did you see that stuff on the Hastings trail?

I rode it up to Bancroft and never saw anything like that. Maybe I was going to fast. :nono:

zammer

03-18-2011, 06:34 AM

I found some of the details on ADV:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=592539&highlight=nippissing

The link provided by R Lefebvre is to one of the earlier RR that I read about the problems on the old nip rd from bear cave up to ten mile lake, if I can remember the other I'll post a link, that being said, I hope you can find a way thru along the old route that would be great, please post lots of pics.:cheers:

R_Lefebvre

03-18-2011, 08:34 AM

There's another thread here. I haven't been through all of this one yet. Just some more intelligence info...

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=331150&highlight=nippissing

4307

03-19-2011, 12:40 PM

I found some of the details on ADV:

http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=592539&highlight=nippissing

I'm not sure exactly where they are talking about.

4307, where did you see that stuff on the Hastings trail?

I rode it up to Bancroft and never saw anything like that. Maybe I was going to fast. :nono:

That's because you were on the Nippissing trail. The actual colonization road is on the western side of hwy 62, the trail is on the eastern side.
There is a lot more to explore, offshoot roads, Al Capone had a hideout somewhere around Old Hastings.... :cool: Actually is by Gorman Lake north east of Bancroft, on Letterkenny road.

info about the area:

http://blog.getrealinontario.com/index.php/2009/08/05/ghost_towns_around_bancroft_aamp_barry_s

http://blog.getrealinontario.com/index.php/2009/07/22/lake_gorman_brudenell

http://www.ontarioabandonedplaces.com/upload/wiki.asp?entry=857