Camping.
Catchacoma Lake sits at the north end of Trent Lakes as the township's principal gateway into Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park's backcountry canoe-camping network. From the Catchacoma access, designated interior sites are reachable by paddle into the park's interior chain.
The headline north-side access points — Long Lake, Anstruther Lake, Wolf Lake — sit on the North Kawartha side; Catchacoma is the Trent-Lakes-side route into the same park.
The brief.
Kawartha Highlands is a non-operating wilderness park — there are no frontcountry sites and no drive-up camping. Camping is reservation-only through Ontario Parks (advance and same-day); permit fees apply per night per person; designated interior sites only.
Catchacoma Lake is a paddle-in put-in, not a road-end campsite, so plan for canoe or kayak transport with backcountry kit. The park is open year-round on a self-served basis but reservation services and parking lots run seasonally — late May through Thanksgiving is the marquee window.
Crown-land rules apply elsewhere in the park.
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Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park (Catchacoma access)
Trent-Lakes-side put-in into the park's backcountry canoe-route network; designated interior campsites on the chain reached from Catchacoma Lake.
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