Camping.
Rondeau Provincial Park's frontcountry campground sits inside one of the largest remaining old-growth Carolinian forests in Canada, a short walk from a long Lake Erie sand beach. Wheatley Provincial Park, in the southwest corner of the municipality on Lake Erie, runs four named campgrounds — Boosey Creek, Highlands, Middle Creek, and Two Creeks — through Carolinian forest along the creek mouths.
The brief.
Rondeau is the more straightforward booking — old-growth forest sites a short walk from beach, trail-network access, and Festival of Flight programming overlap in May. Wheatley's recent operational variability after the 2021–2022 Village of Wheatley hydrogen-sulphide events means the campground season has run differently year to year; confirm the current-year status with Ontario Parks before planning around it.
Highlands at Wheatley carries 44 electrical and 31 non-electrical sites with a comfort station and laundry; Boosey Creek runs semi-wilderness non-electrical sites; Middle Creek is fully electrical with creekside sites. Both parks book through the Ontario Parks reservation system.
Outside the provincial parks, Lower Thames Valley conservation areas are mostly day-use.
2. places.
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Rondeau Provincial Park campground
Frontcountry sites in old-growth Carolinian forest, walking distance to a Lake Erie sand beach.
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Wheatley Provincial Park campgrounds
Boosey Creek (semi-wilderness, non-electrical), Highlands (44 electrical + 31 non-electrical, comfort station, laundry, playground), Middle Creek (fully electrical, creekside), Two Creeks (Carolinian creek-bottom).
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Today's read.
Cool but comfortable for layered effort · light winds.
