Depending on how adventurous you are and whether you enjoy a road trip or not, there are several options for getting to Chapleau.
From London and Toronto areas, follow these directions:
-Take the 401 East / 400 North/ Highway 69 to Sudbury. We recommend using the 407 to save time.
-From Sudbury, take Highway 144 for about 120 km to Watershed gas station (around km marker 154 to 156). This is the last gas station before Chapleau.
-Turn left onto the logging road, known as Sultan Industrial Road or the Ramsey Road. This road starts off as straight but turns windy. Take at your own risk (we do!) and note that there is no cell service on the majority of this road. Please contact us for alternate routes if you do not want to take this road.
-Carefully drive this road for the 80 km stretch.
-At the end of the road, turn left toward Chapleau. This is Highway 667, is about 30 km long and is paved.
-At the end of the road, turn right at the stop sign onto Highway 129 North.
-Drive this highway for about 15-20 minutes.
-You will see signs for Moose Horn Lodge and a small sign for Sheppard and Morse Road. Turn left onto Sheppard and Morse Road. This road may be hard to find but if you come to an intersection on the highway, you have gone a few metres too far.
-On Sheppard and Morse Road, keep left. Moose Horn Lodge is about 2 km down the road, on the right. Driveway number 4.
From Ottawa, you can take Highway 11 to Sudbury instead. Follow the rest of the instructions above.
**Note 1: It takes about 3.5 hours to get from Sudbury to Chapleau, NOT 5 hours as the map image states.**
**Note 2: If you do not want to take the Sultan Industrial Road/Ramsey Road, you may proceed straight to Timmins and then follow highway 101 to Chapleau. This route takes about an extra 1 to 1.5 hours.**
**Note 3: Alternatively, from Sudbury, you may take highway 17 to Iron Bridge and onto Chapleau. This will take an extra 1 to 1.5 hours. More scenic than driving to Timmins from Sudbury.**
The closest place you can fly to is Timmins: https://www.timmins.ca/our_services/airport
We recommend signing up for Porter Airlines emails which allow you to catch the frequent 20% off flights discount codes (www.flyporter.ca). Porter flies from Ottawa to Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport and from Toronto to the Timmins airport quite frequently. You may also try Air Canada but Kalan highly recommends Porter Airlines.
*Note: You will need to rent a vehicle in Timmins to drive to Chapleau*
Another adventurous route is flying to Sudbury and taking the train to Chapleau: www.viarail.ca. Kalan took this route many times during university.
Fun fact: The founder of Porter Airlines is from Chapleau and wanted to make the north more accessible.
Porter Airlines flies from Victoria, BC to Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Unfortunately, Porter does not fly from Pearson to Timmins (only from Billy Bishop downtown Toronto to Timmins) so you may need to get crafty if you choose to fly Porter the entire way.
Of course, Air Canada is also an unfortunate option.
*Note, you will need to rent a vehicle to Timmins to drive to Chapleau*
For our American guests driving from Ohio and Illinois, we recommended two routes, both of which involve crossing at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan into Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. We even converted into miles for you non-metric system-ers.
Option 1 (through Wawa, Ontario):
-The most picturesque drive to the camp, which lets you see spectacular scenery along the north shore of Lake Superior, is to cross the border at Sault Ste. Marie and drive north on highway 17 to Wawa.
-Go east on highway 101
-Drive 80 miles East towards Chapleau
-When you reach the junction of Highway 101 and Highway 129, you will see a sign to turn north (left) to Chapleau. You want to drive straight.
-Highway 101 turns into highway 129. Drive about 200 yards past the Chapleau cutoff and on the right will be a Moose Horn Lodge sign (this is Sheppard and Morse Road).
-Turn right on Sheppard and Morse Road and keep left at the fork.
-Drive a few hundred yards to the lodge. We are located about 10 miles south of Chapleau of off Highway 129.
Option 2 (through Thessalon, Ontario):
-Another scenic route is to drive from Sault Ste. Marie via Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) to the town of Thessalon.
-Turn left onto Highway 129 and drive north to Chapleau along the Thassalon River Valley.
-Drive about 200 yards past the Chapleau cutoff and on the right will be a Moose Horn Lodge sign. Turn right on Sheppard and Morse Road and keep left at the fork.
-Drive a few hundred yards to the lodge. We are located about 10 miles south of Chapleau of off highway 129.