Hastings Highlands.

Hastings Highlands is a 966-square-kilometre rural township at the south gate of Algonquin country, formed in 2001 by the amalgamation of Bangor / Wicklow and McClure, Herschel, and Monteagle townships and centred on Maynooth at the junction of Highway 62 and Highway 127. Lake St.

Peter Provincial Park, the only operating provincial park inside the township, runs 478 hectares and 65 campsites between the northern shoreline of Lake St. Peter and the southern shoreline of McKenzie Lake — the Lookout Trail (2.5 km, strenuous) and the Cabin Trail (4 km, strenuous) climb out of the campground over the lake.

Egan Chutes Provincial Park, 15 kilometres east of Bancroft on the York River, is the township's nature-reserve flagship — a 1,105-hectare reserve where the river drops through three named chutes (Egan Chute, Flat Rapids, Farm Chute) past Mammoth Rock and the York River Tactite Zone. The Hastings Heritage Trail's northern terminus is at Lake St.

Peter; the 156-kilometre EOTA-managed corridor runs south through Maynooth and Birds Creek toward Glen Ross. The Baptiste–Elephant–Benoir tri-lakes system flows together through the York River and the Ripples channel.