Natureboy
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I want to do some boondocking farther north than the Lake la Ronge provincial park in Saskatchewan. Gonna stay there for a night first. Not sure how far I could go pulling the trailer.
Anyone know of some good roads to go past that far when I could even camp off in some very secluded place?
Thanks in advance.
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cruiserjs
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I think that you can go as far as Wollaston Lake, maybe further, My SK highway map shows a cg at the soutwest en of Wollaston. I sure would ask folks at La Ronge for better advice. Good Luck.
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bobofthenorth
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We go fishing at Missinipi every fall - that's about 100 miles north of La Ronge. I've driven as far as Reindeer Lake but I was a lot younger and seriously in love. The road north of the Stanley Mission turnoff is "challenging". We take the bus up there so its by no means impossible but don't expect pavement - the pavement runs out before the Stanley turnoff and its poor gravel from there on. When its wet it turns to goosesnot and when its dry it has a fine dust that filters into everything. If its dead calm the dust will hang on the road and make visibility really poor.
As far as places to boondock, there's lots of little lakes with turnoffs - I'm sure you could overnight at any of them. There's a couple of campgrounds at Missinipi - can't remember much past there - like I said it was a lot of years ago and I was focussed on the destination. One thing I do remember from that trip though was the sign at Micky's (which used to be the jumping off point for the tote road to Wollaston). That sign essentially said "abandon hope all ye who enter here". I'm not sure if its the same arrangement now - I think it is - that road was a private haul road maintained by the mining company and you were pretty well on your own if you travelled it.
If it were me I'd take the towed as far as Missinipe, get a cabin at Thompson's Camps and explore from there. That way you could evaluate the road for yourself prior to taking an RV up it. There's a great provincial park in La Ronge.
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