Amazing Facts about Dryden

Dryden is second-largest city in Kenora District of Northwestern Ontario, Dryden is located on Wabigoon Lake. Amazing Facts about Dryden make Dryden a very amazing tourist destination in Canada.

It is smallest community in province of Ontario Dryden is designated as a city. Kenora and Dryden are two cities in Ontario and are located in Central Time Zone.

Dryden is surrounded by Kenora District. Dryden is having natural beauty and a very unique destination where recreation and tourism facilities are available.

This city is well known for hunting and fishing. Dryden is located in Sunset Country and isaccessible from Trans Canada Highway. Dryden is situated on Wabigoon Lake it is halfway between Thunder Bay, Manitoba and Winnipeg, Ontario.

Amazing Facts about Dryden

1. Cross Suspension Bridge over Wabigoon River: Roy Wilson Suspension Bridge can be easily accessed by Johnston park which is off Trans Canada Highway.

This park is starting point of urban trails in Dryden. You will find beautiful ‘Pieces of Dryden’ tile among trees. Head down towards river and there you will find bridge.

Cross Suspension Bridge over Wabigoon River

You can cross this bridge to get great views of rapids on Wabigoon River. Depending on season, this river gently flows down or rushing strongly.

2. Visit Laura Howe Marsh Area: Wetlands just like Laura Howe Marsh, these are home to wide variety of wildlife which includes red foxes, great blue herons, frogs and insects and more.

Visit Laura Howe Marsh Area

Aquatic plants like pond weeds, water lilies, arrowheads, cattails and reeds can be found. Marsh provides nursery and spawning area for amphibians and fish, it is a winter refuge for songbirds and deer, also food source for hunters and beavers like birds of prey, foxes and snakes.

From parking on Van Horne Avenue, you can select longer 2 km or short 0.4 km hike. Don’t miss all these amazing view within marsh.

3. Explore Wilderness and Dryden Urban Hiking Trails: There are number of opportunities for strolling or hiking through wildness or urban trails in Dryden.

There are 3 urban trails systems which range from 5.4-12.3 km long. Blue Lake Provincial Park in Vermilion Bay and Aaron Provincial Park on Thunder Lake over the trails within parks. Check out remnants of terrific wind storm of 1973.

Explore Wilderness and Dryden Urban Hiking Trails

For advanced and intermediate riders, Ghost Lake Trails offers sense of complexity and freedom in wilderness on forest trails and existing bush roads.

It is 22km of trail which run through different terrains like swamps, wetlands and rocky bedrock outcrops mixed in forest. Ghost Lake is a staging lake it is up to 200 Loons.

4. Watch Pow Wow: First Nation communities host annual pow wows which are very lively and colourful reflection of aboriginal culture.

Watch Pow Wow

Complete with food, drums and traditional dress, pow wows are packed with exhilarating and exciting sounds and sights.

Lake First Nation Pow Wows is one of the largest Pow Wows in the Northwest Ontario. Dryden & District Museum has both traveling and permanent exhibits

5. Visit Museum, home of ‘Dryden Buck’: Hambleton House, is centrally located, it is home the Dryden Museum having 10,000 artifacts as in collection.

home of ‘Dryden Buck’

They have travelling and permanent exhibits. A very famous ‘Dryden Buck’, an unofficial Ontario recorded a whitetail deer that shot in year 2003 and scored 192 7/8 on Boone and Crockett scale and stands proudly in museum.

6. Go canoeing : Dryden Kayak and Canoe Club meets in summer on weekly basis to explore lakes and rivers around Dryden.

Go canoeing

You can also discover local area there like Aerobus Lake Loop or Beaverhouse Canoe route. Also you can rent out canoes at Aaron Provincial Park. It is one of the most Amazing Facts about Dryden.

7. Experience Blue Lake Provincial Parks: Aaron Provincial Park provides amazing opportunities for whole family, from canoeing, boating, fishing and camping during summers to cross country skiing in winters.

Blue Lake Provincial Parks

Blue Lake Provincial Park is only 45 km away. This boasts a long and sandy beach so that you may see at bottom around six metres.

8. Treat yourself to entertainment during night: Dryden Regional Training and Cultural Centre is called home of entertainment with a state of art around 500 seat auditorium.

Entertainment in Dryden

Dryden Entertainment Series hosts number of performances throughout the whole year. Pappy’s Cafe in Wabigoon is a very beautiful and magical place for music and entertainment.

9. Play round of the golf: Dryden has around 2 golf courses i.e Eagle’s Landing, it is a 9 hole, which is located on shores of Wabigoon Lake.

Play round of the golf

Every hole has around one sand trap and 4 holes that contain water hazards. Anderson’s Homestead Golf Course is 3rd golf course, It is also 9 hole, par 36 course.